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I miss LA almost immediately when I leave it, and I don’t even live there
I think 5M people for me is comfortable, and 10+ in a metro area is great.
I really don’t do well in smaller cities (I really struggled with SF for the first couple of years)
@skinnylatte An intern from Hong Kong worked at our facility for a year. He also found SF not big or dense enough to suit. He would travel to New York to get his fix of real urban life.
L.A. has been getting denser for some time, but I still think of it as “a dozen suburbs in search of a downtown”.
@SVChucko I brought some new Singapore expats to the Mission and Richmond. They looked around and said, why did you bring me to the suburbs?
They all moved to New York after
@skinnylatte I’m not aware of many places in the US that have anywhere near that population density. NYC, yes, maybe Chicago. Beyond that? Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any.
@SVChucko also the type and style of transit and physical space infra. New York and parts of Chicago feel most like London, HK, Singapore etc. even other big U.S. cities are super car / suburb centered with not the same types of walkability and density. I wouldn’t say Bombay or Jakarta are walkable either but it’s more about.. I dunno, some difference in philosophy? A lot of US life is about keeping people out, and others away, vs living side by side and sometimes uncomfortably
I know LA fits in the definition of a car centered mega city, but given that it’s the only place in the world where I can taste the vast range of Chinese, Thai, Korean, Mexican and Salvadoran foods, I’m willing to accept it haha
@skinnylatte You clearly understand the US a lot better than many of us natives.