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Originally Posted by park123
Only insofar as they are underdeveloped cities with inadequate public transportation systems. So people there would understand that you have to use a car to get around. But in all of them, there are an order of magnitude (or two) more people out and about, walking around, than in LA.
If you drive around, LA feels large and never-ending. But if you park your car and get out, almost anywhere in LA feels sleepy.
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Yeah, but if you get out of your car often enough in LA, you will quickly realize that you are not in Wichita or Grand Rapids. The local population is incredibly cosmopolitan. You can locate and experience every kind of cuisine in LA, enjoy some of the finest and most diverse cultural offerings to be had in North America, and obtain just about any type of goods or services that your heart may desire. The place never feels sleepy to me, but I will admit that it almost always fails to deliver that on-the-pavement big city pedestrian experience that many of us crave.