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Lean said in July 19th, 2012 at 4:36 pm

I’m not sure I understand you. Do you mean that you are tiinkhng of coming from San Francisco to NYC, but first you want to know what a New Yorker’s impression of the big cities in California are?Well, if this is what you mean, I’ve been to San Francisco 3 times now. I’ve found it to be a very liveable city. Good mass transit, good theater and an interesting arts scene, good restaurants, lots of diversity, interesting walkable neighborhoods. I could certainly live there. I’ve never been to L.A. and truthfully I am not that interested in L.A. I don’t like to drive on highways, and the automotive culture of L.A. puts me off. Also, I believe L.A. to be like most automotive cities even if it is diverse on paper, people rarely see people who are not like them except in service positions. It’s not like NYC or San Francisco, with a lot of public space that everyone must share. In L.A. people stay in their cars and go from place to place, so they don’t have to rub shoulders with anyone who is different from them. I HAVE been to San Diego. I honestly hated it there. Again, too many highways, much of the housing all looks alike, and a lot of segregation in how people actually live. It seemed like the middle west plopped down on the coast of California, with a little bit of Mexico tucked in at the edges. (My husband was interviewing for a job there, and we were looking at neighborhoods to live in. The one neighborhood I liked had more Mexican people living in it. It seemed far more interesting then the Anglo neighborhoods I’d seen!)Personally, however, I’ll stick with NYC!

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