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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 02:33 PM
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I'm a transplanted Los Angelino and gray weather makes me sad.
Things are actually going pretty well for me right now, and last night my long-planned birthday party went off without a hitch. I've got an Oscar party to go to this evening, etc. etc.

And yet I'm depressed for no reasion because it's cloudy in Brooklyn this afternoon, and because of where I grew up, lack of sun = :(

Afternoons like these make me wish I was back in Lala Land!
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 02:35 PM
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1. The grass is always greener...
...except in LA, where it is always a shade of grey/brown.
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tanngrisnir3 Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 02:54 PM
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2. I'm a transplanted Monterey Peninsulan living in LA
And I LOVE foggy, rainy grey weather.

LA weather sucks.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 02:55 PM
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3. Leave now, before leaving becomes impossible.
Which it does.

You have been warned.
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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 02:57 PM
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4. You'll miss it when you're gone.
Series.
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tanngrisnir3 Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 03:05 PM
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6. It's actually my second tenure here. First was....
From 1993-2000 or so, and I moved back in July of 08.

I was brought up to hate LA, but I don't. It's the best big city in the country, in terms of the mind-numbing variety of things to do/see.
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Tektonik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 03:34 PM
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7. The diversity of the people and the land is second to none
Edited on Sun Feb-22-09 03:36 PM by Tektonik
There's something for everyone here.
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tanngrisnir3 Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 03:44 PM
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9. Oh, yeah. Bang for the buck factor for diversity....
in culture, langauge, food, you-name-it is, IMO, well past SF and NYC, especially if one counts the San Gabriel Valley and West Side.

I don't want to be here forever, but it's great for the time being.
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Tektonik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 03:47 PM
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10. I consider all the burbs as part of LA
LA to me goes from ventura county down to pendleton.
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tanngrisnir3 Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 03:58 PM
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13. Ack! I can't stand the Orange Curtain, but there really....
isn't any proper demarcation line. It's all one, big city from Thousand Oaks to San Onofre to shitsville 909 land out east.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 03:01 PM
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5. Just pretend it's a smoggy haze without the brownish tint
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Tektonik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 03:50 PM
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11. LA smog is hardly that bad anymore
The sky gets all fucked up looking the first week or so after we get REALLY hot temps, which makes the horizon have a brown tint.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 03:40 PM
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8. So you're telling us that all the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray.
And you've been for a walk on a winter's day. Not only that, but you'd be safe and warm if you were in LA?

You should write a song about that.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 03:55 PM
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12. Then he could choke on a ham sandwich!
:hide:
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