The older you get the more you can compare a place you remember from a long time ago to what it's like today. A place like New York City got better in the 1990s for example than the 1970s. More livable, cleaner, less crime. Gotten too sterile for me these days, but has been generally improving over the decades, but Los Angeles in my experience has been steadily declining decade to decade. It's much worse now than it was 10 years ago. It's worse 10 years ago than it was 20 years ago. Etc. Getting more and more dirty, more more Third World and strangely more and more expensive. People from war-torn or significantly economically depressed countries/political repression can come here and have a better life but if you were raised in first world settings as most of us here in the US were, chances are you're not going to like it there. Maybe if you're very young, in your 20s it could be tolerable, especially if you don't mind being around 140 different ethnic groups whom you have nothing in common with. Los Angeles was not much until the 1920s. Two or three great decades during the Golden age and then the steady decline began. I wasn't around in the 1930s but I've read a lot and would've loved to have been around then. Must've been a great place to live. I was around in the 1980s though and as difficult of a place as it was then in many ways today it is 10 times worse in every way.
Edmund |
Spring Valley, NV |
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