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Originally Posted by milquetoast
L. A.'s not that ugly, have you seen London? With your eyes?  |
I love LA, but it is just a very ugly city. SF, circa 1990 was quite ugly. SoMa and the new mission bay areas were simply dilapidated old wharehouse buildings. They were hideous. Most of its neighorhoods, as many of them still are, were AGING and old. Upper market was full of trash everywhere. Many areas just 1-2 blocks outside of the Financial districts or union square were ghetto and just old and falling apart. Many areas of SF are still old and falling apart. Manhattan in 1990 was equally ugly and falling apart., and largely still is rather gritty. Many buildings in all of these major cities are simply in disrepair. The difference is London, SF, and Manhattan have this urban authenticity to them that mask the ugliness. They have a curious beauty. Its wierd.
If LA were simply falling apart, that would be one thing, but all the old junk yards, autorepair shops, tract homes, dead zones, empty streetscapes, antiseptic buildings, etc. just give it an ugliness that no other city has.