No matter what the topic is, if it involves LA.
THE.
SAME.
EXACT.
PEOPLE. Literally rush over to make some weird statement.
"How long do you think it'll take until Downtown Los Angeles is "solid"?
Random person : Lets talk about tacos, and how Houston is LAs twin and they both have freeways and they both have food trucks and they are nearly identical because i saw one palm tree in Houston once, and I personally feel they are both equally important and are both cultural icons YAY !"
STOP..
JUST STOP. Take pride in your cities individual identity. Stop trying to be like another city or try to compare your city to another. Its rather embarrassing. Have pride in your cities individuality.
Take away the skylines and being spread out. Houston is NOTHING like LA. I Actually lived in both and can honestly say I'm a witness. IF you're basing your judgment on "What's seen on TV" or what you see on here and you haven't stepped foot in LA in YEARS.
JUST.
STOP.
ANYWAYS.
DTLA will always be the center of LA. People who
ACTUALLY live here identify with DTLA being the core. What some transplants tend to do as well, if it makes some of you
feel better is that they sometimes identify everything north of the 10, south of the SAMO mountains and west of the river as our "City" since the skyline stretches from downtown all the way to the beach along Wilshire. But that notation is mostly used by the newbies desperate to be an Angeleno.
To write off DTLA as the central core.... a place getting wall to wall denser and taller while we're at it, is just. Ridiculous. You honestly cant be taken seriously. How long will it take ? NO ONE KNOWS.