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>>15420331
>People, especially right wingers, like to shit on ny and cal
It's funny, I'm a left-wing European who never went to the USA, but I have a weird obsession with L.A. ever since I have heard about Skid Row and spent a lot of time looking at it on Google Maps, and it seems like hell on earth to me, due to city being designed around car traffic, like you can't get drunk and just go home by just walking and taking the subway. Unless you are okay with sharing a bus with crackheads, public transportation isn't a thing there.
Californian people come across as obnoxious twats, there is a earthquake waiting to destroy everything, streets are littered with homeless people sleeping in tents. Pic related is a normal day in Los Angeles.
Then, you look at Bay Area, it's like the homeland of everything I hate in this world: the Silicon Valley, venture capitalists wanking off each others, self-righteous blue-haired liberals and Peter Thiel.
Besides the sunny weather, I don't understand the appeal of California at all, yet for some reason, most of my favorite American musicians live in L.A. I don't get it. If I wanted to live under a similar climate, I would rather move to Italy: it's more relaxed, they have better food and culture, and I wouldn't fear to get shot by a guy far-out on meth.

By comparison, NYC seems much more livable, lively and weird if you can manage to pay the rent. Like London, but with more fun allowed. New Amsterdam was a good name for the city.

Then you look at other cities like Atlanta, Dallas, Austin, Albuquerque, ... and it's just so fucking soulless. It all look the same and it's sad.
New Orleans, Philadelphia, Miami and Seattle are the only I've looked at that have a semblance of soul.
It seems like the further colonialists when to the West, the further the new-born mutt race lost their architectural sense. It might something to do with gold rushes.

Visiting the USA seems like an absolute waste of time, now that you American faggots live in rent free in our heads thanks to the Internet. Your nature is great but if I could take some vacations far away, I would rather visit China.