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Los Angeles (Central, South, East, Southeast): 3 million people, 264.6 sq miles, 11,500 psm. Unless these burbs surrounding Boston are super dense, I'm not buying this at all.
Some of Boston's suburbs are more dense than the city itself...
I don't have a dog in this fight. Honestly, I wouldn't want to LIVE in either. But i'm going to go with LA for the simple fact that the women there look FAR better than women in Boston.
That's absolutely sexist, ridiculous and has no basis in reality. Where did you get your facts, a Beach Boys song? lol.
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I don't have a dog in this fight. Honestly, I wouldn't want to LIVE in either. But i'm going to go with LA for the simple fact that the women there look FAR better than women in Boston.
That's absolutely sexist, ridiculous and has no basis in reality. Where did you get your facts, a Beach Boys song? lol.
Don't listen to the beach boys and I actually despise LA, but I'm just being honest. And in actuallity, I think LA women are overrated as a whole, but I'd still put it over Boston.
P.S. It's not sexist to have an opinion that one city has a larger population of attractive women than another.
Not true at all. I'm pretty comfortable saying the connected stretch, from DTLA to Santa Monica offers more than the city of Boston. This is where the vast majority of LA's attractions lie, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, the Miracle Mile, everything. You're buying into the "L.A. is a big suburb, it's attractions are all spread out" myth here.
As for the second highlighted statement:
Los Angeles (Central, South, East, Southeast): 3 million people, 264.6 sq miles, 11,500 psm. Unless these burbs surrounding Boston are super dense, I'm not buying this at all.
I gotta, admit that's very impressive. If those stats are accurate, I didn't realize LA was that dense that far out. That said, one of the big things is the style of built environment. Miami is a very dense city too, but you could argue its as un-dense as Houston or Dallas since it's totally car-centric and there's virtually zero street interaction. How engaged are Los Angeles' residents with street activity? I've said in other threads that once you get to a certain point in density, it's more important to have the sidewalk activity, etc. than to try to cram in more people. If there's a substantial amount of street activity, then I'm happy to admit I'm wrong.
However from what I've heard, that's not really the case.
For what it's worth, Boston's inner suburbs are very dense...some statistically more dense than Boston, actually. Boston is right around 13,000 ppsm....Cambridge is 16,500 ppsm, Somerville is 18,200 and Chelsea 17,300, Everett 12,300, and Malden 11,600. If you were to look at the inner 90 square miles of Boston, the population tops 1.1 million, which is pretty impressive. Is LA denser, further? Of course. It's a far larger city...but you're selling Boston short in its urbanity and putting wayyy too much focus solely on density.
I think you're selling Boston short in a lot of areas. You're talking about all of LA's attractions like Beverly Hills, Hollywood, etc., but you're totally ignoring that Boston has some of the most unique, beautiful, architecturally gifted neighborhoods in the country.
I think that has much more to do with fashion than with genetics. L.A. is a rather sexist, misogynistic town... after all it is the porno production capital of the world, and Hollywood seems stuck in a time-warp where women are always playing damsels in distress, being stabbed and beaten and raped in the name of 'entertainment', and very rarely are they directing and producing movies. I'll take a classy, attractive, well dressed Ivy League woman with a New York sense of style versus a Cali girl anytime.
Sorry I said you are sexist, I take that back. I like babe-watching as much as anyone; South Beach, FL being my favorite spot.
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Originally Posted by UTHORNS96
Don't listen to the beach boys and I actually despise LA, but I'm just being honest. And in actuallity, I think LA women are overrated as a whole, but I'd still put it over Boston.
P.S. It's not sexist to have an opinion that one city has a larger population of attractive women than another.
I gotta, admit that's very impressive. If those stats are accurate, I didn't realize LA was that dense that far out. That said, one of the big things is the style of built environment. Miami is a very dense city too, but you could argue its as un-dense as Houston or Dallas since it's totally car-centric and there's virtually zero street interaction. How engaged are Los Angeles' residents with street activity? I've said in other threads that once you get to a certain point in density, it's more important to have the sidewalk activity, etc. than to try to cram in more people. If there's a substantial amount of street activity, then I'm happy to admit I'm wrong.
However from what I've heard, that's not really the case.
In Hollywood most of the stores are street facing, there is nearly 24/7 pedestrian activity. 40% of the population of my neighborhood lives without a car. This is not an anomaly, most of the other mini-neighborhoods in Hollywood are exactly like this. In the inner core, Los Angeles is just as bustling and street oriented as Boston, Philly, even Chicago.
Fair enough, but I doubt those suburbs are even 40 sq miles total.
You might wanna give this one up... If Boston was like LA and annexed its surroundings it would would be a top 10 largest city in the US. Cambridge, Somerville and Brookline (even revere and chelsea to an extent) are interwoven into Boston's urban form - there really is no dividing line, and those areas are quite large. I personally think (particularly Cambridge and Somerville) they are better than most of the neighborhoods in the actual city.
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