2012: The Year It Became Okay To Like Los Angeles
“The reputation of Los Angeles as whipping boy for New York and San Francisco, America’s more European cities, is branded as a blood feud in which the sides are equal in antipathy. It’s really more one-sided than that. New Yorkers and San Franciscans hurl insults drafted in sub-committee and ratified by full houses. Los Angeles signs them into law without so much as reading a line, and then heads back to the beach or golf course or whatever.”
I’ll never live anywhere where you have to have a car, but this is definitely my favorite LA apologist essay in this year of LA apologist essays.
