This is LA too.
LA was once a great city??? I must have missed that. It’s a city, but great? no way - meets none of the criteria. It is simply a large, rat infested, congested city - nothing great about it.
Heck, even Missing Persons back in the 80s sang that “Nobody Walks in LA.”
According to my father, Los Angeles was a great city when he moved there in the 1933. The word “smog” did not exist. There was great public transportation, good economy, jobs in the oil industry etc. The place went to hell after World War II. The war brought “diversity” to the city.
Oh, please.
Up till about 1975, Los Angeles was the greatest city in the United States. By any measure — income, manufacturing, growth, public school system, rate of home ownership, medicine, science, and resident life satisfaction.
Those stats are indisputable.
We’ve been invaded and occupied by a foreign country, (thanks for nothing, the other 49 states), which destroyed us.
But it was great ride for a great — greatest — city.
This is LA too.