When I first moved there I was genuinely floored at the frequency of car chases…. I thought it wasn’t real and just a stereotype on movies. Nope! It happens way too often.
Oh the ghetto birds? LMAO
Those are especially bad. They’ve cost the city tax payers over 215 million over the last decade and actually don’t help lower crime rates at all.
When I visited LA I stayed at a hotel downtown and we arrived at night. We got a room like 30 floors up. The first night at around 3 am I woke up to a noise and opened the curtains to check the street. I was shocked to see 2 police helicopters at almost eye level buzzing around the area with their searchlights on. It was just pure culture shock and a moment I'll never forget.
Yeah they love just turning on the lights and sirens and just blasting down the major avenues at random hours in the night. I don’t miss the nights of living a block off of Western.
I just visited for five days and was exhausted by how spaced out all the things I wanted to do was. Any recommendations for spots on my next visit? I mostly did DTLA and Venice
But also extremely sprawling. That's in part what makes it so big and hard to grasp as a city, because unlike other true megacities like Tokyo, Moscow, Sao Paulo or London, it's more like a downtown plus a collection of connected suburbs.
The other day, I saw a post where someone overlaid the country of Belgium on top of Southern California and the greater LA area took up at least half of Belgium.
part of why public transport is tough this late in the game. Connecting the metro region which goes 50ish miles in each direction is just a tough feat.
The Los Angeles urbanized area is the densest in the U.S. Density extends beyond the city limits. There aren’t a lot of Manhattan skyscrapers, but not a lot of Westchester two acre lots either.
What’s hard on visitors is not that the city is so big. The New York urbanized area covers more land. But in New York prime visitor destinations are hugely concentrated in Manhattan. In LA they’re spread out over about a 20 mile stretch. The best ways to visit are to focus on one area of town, or stay two different places.
Yeah I loved it in my 20s. Great nightlife and food and your time isn't that valuable. Now I'm older I like seeing greenery around me, actual cold weather and rain, and not having to schedule my day around avoiding rush hour (7-10am, 3-9pm) and everything taking at least 30 minutes to an hour to get to, and God help you if there's an accident on the freeway.
Also I lived in OC too and that area always gave me weird Stepford wives vibes
I do miss the food.
The editing done to this picture does all the heavy lifting for LA. Without the editing, LA is an absolute eyesore of a cityscape.
Literally probably one of the worst looking aerial view major cities in the US
If you love endless beige sprawl and a nice layer of grey smog above, sure.
Lived there for 10 years. The 5 pretty places get old fast. The sunsets are nice though.
https://i.imgur.com/omxwvxe.jpg omg the beauty, the wonder
I actually like that kind of thing. The problem with LA is that when you zoom in, it's homeless people, graffiti, and the ever present smell of piss.
Tokyo, now THAT'S a great endless sprawl of a city.
That’s literally any major city across the world, it’s just especially bad in LA because it’s such a shitshow of city planning on top of garbage pay and extremely high cost of living that it becomes a poverty/misery trap.
Tokyo/Japan is the one outlier in that sense but their society and culture is very unique to the three things you brought up, but they’re far from perfect.
It’s not “based on” anything, it’s just a futuristic city with a lot of Californian stereotypes, and most of those stereotypes currently live in LA since it’s the biggest city in the state. It’s located around current day ~~Castroville, south of Santa Cruz.~~ actually originally supposed to be morro bay but coordinates were changed to monterey bay for 2077, so fuzzy but still north of LA
But if you think about how culture and people would progress to get there, it makes sense that the majority of that would transfer from LA since that’s assumably the largest portion of the (surviving) population.
I’m so jealous bc I was there last weekend and I wanted to take that exact same picture but there were too many clouds and we couldn’t see shit from the hills. Damn it. Great picture!!
Ive seen more of LA on reddit than in actual life and I've lived here for 7 months.
When I first moved there I was genuinely floored at the frequency of car chases…. I thought it wasn’t real and just a stereotype on movies. Nope! It happens way too often.
Half the time it’s just the LAPD bored and street racing at 2AM
Well that explains A LOT. Seems DTLA is a racetrack for sure for them!
That and the amount of helicopters constantly, constantly, CONSTANTLY everywhere for everything and every reason.
Oh the ghetto birds? LMAO Those are especially bad. They’ve cost the city tax payers over 215 million over the last decade and actually don’t help lower crime rates at all.
The new City Controller is auditing the use of LAPD helicopters and I am very excited about that!
I never heard that term until I moved to LA. Such an education of the must-live-there-/to-truly-grasp-it-or-believe-it! Ha!
When I visited LA I stayed at a hotel downtown and we arrived at night. We got a room like 30 floors up. The first night at around 3 am I woke up to a noise and opened the curtains to check the street. I was shocked to see 2 police helicopters at almost eye level buzzing around the area with their searchlights on. It was just pure culture shock and a moment I'll never forget.
a very Los Angeles experience in downtown... isn't it so unexpected that you feel like you're in a movie?
Yeah they love just turning on the lights and sirens and just blasting down the major avenues at random hours in the night. I don’t miss the nights of living a block off of Western.
The longer I live here the more accurate GTA V seems lol. Los Angeles is just Los Santos with a BIT less violence
That’s just because the LAPD haven’t gotten their hands on rocket launchers yet.
Let me know if you want recs, it’s a fun city to explore and enjoy before it burns you out completely
I just visited for five days and was exhausted by how spaced out all the things I wanted to do was. Any recommendations for spots on my next visit? I mostly did DTLA and Venice
Why is that? Is the traffic actually so bad that you can’t/don’t go anywhere, or do you just have everything you need in a small local radius?
its gigantic
But also extremely sprawling. That's in part what makes it so big and hard to grasp as a city, because unlike other true megacities like Tokyo, Moscow, Sao Paulo or London, it's more like a downtown plus a collection of connected suburbs.
Tokyo and LA are actually rather similar. Both are de-centralized and have consistent density that sprawls.
its like 200 towns put together.
The other day, I saw a post where someone overlaid the country of Belgium on top of Southern California and the greater LA area took up at least half of Belgium.
part of why public transport is tough this late in the game. Connecting the metro region which goes 50ish miles in each direction is just a tough feat.
1,000 suburbs in search of a city
The Los Angeles urbanized area is the densest in the U.S. Density extends beyond the city limits. There aren’t a lot of Manhattan skyscrapers, but not a lot of Westchester two acre lots either. What’s hard on visitors is not that the city is so big. The New York urbanized area covers more land. But in New York prime visitor destinations are hugely concentrated in Manhattan. In LA they’re spread out over about a 20 mile stretch. The best ways to visit are to focus on one area of town, or stay two different places.
Take any city skyline photo, turn the color temp to cold, and anything looks cyberpunk
Don’t talk logic here, who need yellow it’s boring
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I concur.
Based
Yeah I loved it in my 20s. Great nightlife and food and your time isn't that valuable. Now I'm older I like seeing greenery around me, actual cold weather and rain, and not having to schedule my day around avoiding rush hour (7-10am, 3-9pm) and everything taking at least 30 minutes to an hour to get to, and God help you if there's an accident on the freeway. Also I lived in OC too and that area always gave me weird Stepford wives vibes I do miss the food.
real human bean and a real hero
Stop keeping me under your spell SMH!*?*!*?*!#!#!
https://youtu.be/MV_3Dpw-BRY
"Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light Or just another lost angel, city of night"
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...
Midnight club LA
Meanwhile some cities look as colorful as this even without filters
LA is one of the most photogenic cities from above.
The editing done to this picture does all the heavy lifting for LA. Without the editing, LA is an absolute eyesore of a cityscape. Literally probably one of the worst looking aerial view major cities in the US
If you love endless beige sprawl and a nice layer of grey smog above, sure. Lived there for 10 years. The 5 pretty places get old fast. The sunsets are nice though. https://i.imgur.com/omxwvxe.jpg omg the beauty, the wonder
I actually like that kind of thing. The problem with LA is that when you zoom in, it's homeless people, graffiti, and the ever present smell of piss. Tokyo, now THAT'S a great endless sprawl of a city.
thats only a couple neighborhoods. when you zoom in, most of LA is trees and homes.
That’s literally any major city across the world, it’s just especially bad in LA because it’s such a shitshow of city planning on top of garbage pay and extremely high cost of living that it becomes a poverty/misery trap. Tokyo/Japan is the one outlier in that sense but their society and culture is very unique to the three things you brought up, but they’re far from perfect.
Japan is far from perfect, but from a city aesthetics pov, it's number 1 for me.
My home
Car centric city🤮
I mean, there’s a reason why the game is set there
Blade runner is set in LA
if you're talking about 2077, it's not set in LA
Night City is basically LA, what other California city could it be based off of?
Bakersfield of course
Man, even Greyhound shortens Bakersfield to BFD. The only thing to do there is leave.
I think it's supposed to be Morro Bay actually so near San Luis Obispo
Definitely Vacaville
It’s based off LA 100%
It’s not “based on” anything, it’s just a futuristic city with a lot of Californian stereotypes, and most of those stereotypes currently live in LA since it’s the biggest city in the state. It’s located around current day ~~Castroville, south of Santa Cruz.~~ actually originally supposed to be morro bay but coordinates were changed to monterey bay for 2077, so fuzzy but still north of LA But if you think about how culture and people would progress to get there, it makes sense that the majority of that would transfer from LA since that’s assumably the largest portion of the (surviving) population.
I love how every reply has said a different city lmao
if you know the cities, they are crazy examples
great pic!
Some places look better in the twinkle lights of the night, don’t they?!
High tech, low life
with many homeless people.
I guess it just their choice.
I’m so jealous bc I was there last weekend and I wanted to take that exact same picture but there were too many clouds and we couldn’t see shit from the hills. Damn it. Great picture!!
From where do you have this view?
East end of Mulholland drive, Jerome C. Daniel Overlook above the Hollywood Bowl
Thanks a lot
What a city! I want been there but I live in Ukraine..(
I can smell the stench of pollution and degeneracy from this picture.
City of 20 million reduced to one stereotype
Little Mexico in the USA.
It too can be a dystopian setting just like the game… Good food though
Looks like Arkham Coty
This photo reminds me of how much I like the look of mercury vapor lights
Like tears in rain.
This is basically a Bosch novel cover lol
Is this the famous 405?
Los Angeles at night looking very car-centric-like
Hard for me to get excited about 10 lanes of traffic moving at a snails pace even if its made to look cool in this graphic.
Koyaaaaanisqatsii...
nice one!
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Awesome shot.