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>>LA proper, in my opinion is Downtown, Mid City, Inglewood,
>>Baldwin Hills, Leimert park, East Los, and South Central.
>I've
>>never lived in any, have friends and family in each.
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>Trying to move to Downtown/Mid City in the next year. Close to
>shit, on the come up, but not too white, which brings me
>to...
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I like DTLA now. The best book store in the city The Last Book Store, nice lil gallery on the second level, good food, nice dives/bars, quality eye candy, I just can't live there. Too many cops, still hella dirty, and the homeless / schizo pop is still outta hand
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>>Silverlake, Echo park, and parts of Highland are the
>>hipster/creative hubs in the east-ish parts of LA. there
>first
>>is VERY white, the second was a predominately Chicano
>>neighborhood that is being rapidly gentrified. one of my
>>favorite spots, the Echo (raegge/dub and electronic acts
>>perform there and relatively cheap drinks) is there.
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>When I roll thru Silverlake all I can think is "fuuuuck, so
>white". But they are very nice gluten free white people.
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true they are nice, educated, liberal, stylish...
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>>Pasadena, Eagle Rock, and Atwater Village (veer far enough
>>east in atwater and it gets a lil' grimey old gang areas)
>are
>>working and middle class areas that have there own little
>>eateries and performance venues. VERY nice homes to rent or
>>buy. mostly White with a good number of Latinos, and some
>>brooks brother Blacks
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>Gotta rep for Dena! It's a little boring tho, great place to
>raise kids if you aren't in the hood parts. That's why I'm
>looking to head towards DTLA.

yeah I'm 33, and if i don't have this woman leave me Dena def an area I want to start my life with her. Eagle Rock edges it out cause downtown is 15min away and they got Spanish Style homes for 500k
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>>Hollywood is what the movies show you. outside of Amoeba
>(huge
>>record store, that has everything) it's too loud and active
>>for my "tastes". literally celluloid bourgeois opulence next
>>to dystopian poverty
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>I've worked in the heart of Hollywood and it's all a bit too
>surreal for me. Once I saw a chick in a Wonder Woman costume
>eating McDonalds by herself.

bruh, that's a short story ready to be written

The poverty is ridic too, some of
>the crustiest white people I've ever seen outside of SF.

you ain't never lie