My impression of Culver City is that there seem to be a lot of ugly women wearing too little clothes
Moreso than in Hollywood even
Is the Culver Saloon still open? That place was fun.
Their website looks like it hasn't been updated since 2000
So I'm gonna say no
There's this place on Sunset with a mechanical bull
I should try that sometime
Don't go to the saddle ranch.
It's full of date rapists in half unbuttoned shiny shirts, and you're incredibly unlikely to be able to bag a chick there.
Go to the Beauty Bar down in Hollywood proper instead. The female/male ratio is wicked high there, but be forewarned, the place gets crazy crowded.
My favorite bar in LA is probably Tiki Ti, or The Bigfoot Lodge.
Shame they're both on the east side.
Everything on Sunset Strip is ass... the place where Lemmy from Motorhead hangs out (Rainbow Room?) is kind of hilarious though.
For a year or so I lived in Atwater just about a block from the Bigfoot. (This was back when I was maximum rockabilly, so it was very good)
All the good bars I remember were on the East Side... Bigfoot, Silverlake Lounge, Spaceland, Beauty Bar, Burgundy Room... fuck my memory is slipping... there were even a couple of places in Highland Park that were pretty good.
Oh god and the Smog Cutter... best karaoke nights ever. And apparently, one of my friends got a very reasonably priced handjob from one of the asian bartender girls. Her name was like "Sunshine" or "Rainbow" or some shit like that.
It was sad when Star Lanes closed down.
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pros: the beach and the mountains within 5 minutes of eachother.
cons: tourist trap college town where everything closes at 8 or 9.
both true
pro: 360 days of the year the weather is perfect.
con: the other 5 days the town is either on fire or flooding.
yes.
and don't forget...
pro: walking on the beach and going swimming.
con: picking tar off your feat for an hour afterwards.
pro: hot, stupid girls.
con: hot, stupid girls.
pro: isla vista.
con: isla vista.
These are all true
I will add some more pros
pro: Has a great museum, concert bowl and a zoo with penguins
con: Pedestrians don't seem to understand that cars are large objects that can kill them
People will walk right in front of you in the middle of the street with no more regard than if they were in the middle of an empty fucking field
Also Isla Vista was too wet more my tastes. Every damn morning, Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall it's wet outside, blech.
Good: um...lots of places to shop?
Bad: FUCKING EVERYTHING ELSE
Going to school in Santa Cruz
Good: awesome climate all year-round, nice, clean beach
Bad: Downtown is a tourist trap, and shit is expensive. Sometimes nothing to do aside from drinking/smoking
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Don't go to the saddle ranch.
It's full of date rapists in half unbuttoned shiny shirts, and you're incredibly unlikely to be able to bag a chick there.
Go to the Beauty Bar down in Hollywood proper instead. The female/male ratio is wicked high there, but be forewarned, the place gets crazy crowded.
My favorite bar in LA is probably Tiki Ti, or The Bigfoot Lodge.
Shame they're both on the east side.
I sort of miss living in hollywood sometimes.
The traffic was horrible, so getting to and from work was a nightmare, but I lived right by the subway stop and could get all over the east side/downtown without a car. I used to go to the movies like 3-4 times a week, all flexing my american cinemateque membership.
I myself have had good times at Spaceland and The Troubadour
I also wish the Aero here in Santa Monica was as big as the Egyptian
I don't like going to Hollywood. I have a few friends who live there and my school has had a few bar reviews at different places there and it's always such a schlep. I don't like the 'scene/seen', parking fucking blows, and at the bars, drink prices and cover are astronomical, and waitresses/ bar tenders are inattentive at best.
Then there's the mid-wilshire busby's. I went there like 10 times last year and I can't stand it. If you took the hollywood crowd, sifted out the douches, and then took those douches and picked the 100 or so sleaziest ones, and in the same process pulled all annoying women and the women who are just not unattractive, that is Busby's, except that it has the worst bartenders and their bouncers are overzealous (they yell at you for standing and talking).
Of the places I like going, I like the Barney's in Santa Monica (the WeHo one is alright, but it's in WeHo). I went to the Cat and the Fiddle once, and I liked it, but that's in Hollywood.
I wish that the bars here in Culver City didn't suck. They do. And they're filled with people that I went to high school with, or one of my brothers went to high school with.
Don't go to the saddle ranch.
It's full of date rapists in half unbuttoned shiny shirts, and you're incredibly unlikely to be able to bag a chick there.
Go to the Beauty Bar down in Hollywood proper instead. The female/male ratio is wicked high there, but be forewarned, the place gets crazy crowded.
My favorite bar in LA is probably Tiki Ti, or The Bigfoot Lodge.
Shame they're both on the east side.
I sort of miss living in hollywood sometimes.
The traffic was horrible, so getting to and from work was a nightmare, but I lived right by the subway stop and could get all over the east side/downtown without a car. I used to go to the movies like 3-4 times a week, all flexing my american cinemateque membership.
I myself have had good times at Spaceland and The Troubadour
I also wish the Aero here in Santa Monica was as big as the Egyptian
The Whisky a Go-Go has some good bands occasionally, as does the knitting factory. Naja's down in Redondo is the greatest bar ever though. 77 beers on Tap and the Landsharks, the worlds greatest cover band.
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-Terry Pratchett
Santa Monica?
We're practically neighbors. I live there too.
Going to school there, but I live in the Valley.
I hope to move there soon, but concerns include: (a) gang violence near SMC, apparently. I'm still not too worried about it, but a lot of people have been mentioning it to me. (b) Good god it's expensive. A studio for 800/month? Fuck you, Santa Monica.
The only section of Long Beach that I've been to, is right by the Belmont shores pool, I think that that's what it's called. It's the pool used in the 84 Olympics. It's pretty nice, and the surrounding area is also nice.
That's like saying that the closest you've been to Long Beach is Compton.
I want to move. I'm starting to care less and less about where, but with my budget, and the fact that I don't have a roommate lined up my choices are limited. I wasn't looking intently, it just came up when I did my search on craigslist.
most things here are more expensive than they are in other countries like cars and clothes because the dollar is so weak
property in this city is stupidly expensive and I would hate to live in Brisbane or Perth right now were inflation is like a million percent because of the mining boom
Vancouver B.C.
Good: It's beautiful and the climate is perfect.
Bad: It's fucking expensive. A bedroom is a thousand a month.
Crackheads are pervasive.
Bleeding-hearts are even more pervasive than the crackheads they represent...they protest against everything
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Tuscaloosa Alabama
Good: Bars, People, Living Expenses, Football Games, Scenery, Generally Nice Weather
Bad: Frats, Racists (tend to be Frats), Not a lot of gamers, Can be hot as all shit
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Pros: It's pretty much the same perfect weather every day. We sold the souls of a thousand children to eliminate all the sucky seasons.
It is the only place in the country where they breed pandas specifically for the meat. Delicious
Cons: Far enough from LA that you don't have to deal with the assholes, but still close enough to know that you might have to move there for work reasons.
Good: Really good food if you know where to look, from all over the globe. Places to dance till 8 in the morning if that's your scene. Decent jobs with benefits teaching English on every damn corner in the city.
Bad: Property value is more or less twice what it is in every other city on the island. Preconceptions regarding foreigners are a huge pain in the ass. Getting people to pay attention to what you are saying is difficult, even if you speak Chinese. The local food is the greasiest, must unhealthy (delicious) crap you could ever possibly hope to eat.
Pros:
-No pollution, like I'm used to (raised in the San Joaquin Valley).
-Actual trees, actual lakes.
-The city is smallish, but isn't as bad as I thought it would be.
-Everyone is generally pretty nice.
-Completely rad group of friends who are in similar situations (came from another state, are completely hilarious and fun and somewhat nerdy, etc).
Cons:
-People can be fake as hell, despite their niceness. Makes me miss the real (read:rude) attitudes of Californians.
-It seems to me that a lot of people are wistful for the Confederate South, which I just don't understand/think is completely stupid.
-Too many hardcore conservatives.
-City is waaaay behind the times re: recycling, common social issues, common health awareness issues (Relay for Life being the glaring example in my mind).
-No mountains or beach.
I live in Carlsbad (San Diego for those who don't know where Carlsbad is) so yeah I am a typical socal'er, but you have to have a lot of money to live in Santa Monica, much less L.A.
I don't know why the fuck anyone would want to live in either of those places, unless you dig the hollywood scene. But then again i've lived here since I was born, so as soon as it's viable for me to move, i'm moving FAR away, maybe even Europe. Just because I like movies doesn't mean I respect the industry. I think the people who work in the movie business are absolute scum (while some can be very good people, though).
People that shit on Southern California completely baffle me. I read bullshit like Urian's post and wonder if we're talking about the same state.
The Movie industry? Are you fucking kidding me? Who the fuck do you even know in the movie industry? Good friends of our family are extras for films and commercials, and that's the only people I know that are even remotely connected with Hollywood. I don't consider them "the movie industry". The closest I've ever got to "the movie industry" was a damn movie shoot that closed off the 105 on ramp right by LAX when I flew back to Taiwan, and I freaked out because I thought some horrible highway chase had gone wrong.
Seriously, fucked up police cars all over the damn place, it was rad.
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We have lots of ghosts.
Everything on Sunset Strip is ass... the place where Lemmy from Motorhead hangs out (Rainbow Room?) is kind of hilarious though.
For a year or so I lived in Atwater just about a block from the Bigfoot. (This was back when I was maximum rockabilly, so it was very good)
All the good bars I remember were on the East Side... Bigfoot, Silverlake Lounge, Spaceland, Beauty Bar, Burgundy Room... fuck my memory is slipping... there were even a couple of places in Highland Park that were pretty good.
Oh god and the Smog Cutter... best karaoke nights ever. And apparently, one of my friends got a very reasonably priced handjob from one of the asian bartender girls. Her name was like "Sunshine" or "Rainbow" or some shit like that.
It was sad when Star Lanes closed down.
I will add some more pros
pro: Has a great museum, concert bowl and a zoo with penguins
con: Pedestrians don't seem to understand that cars are large objects that can kill them
People will walk right in front of you in the middle of the street with no more regard than if they were in the middle of an empty fucking field
Also Isla Vista was too wet more my tastes. Every damn morning, Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall it's wet outside, blech.
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Good: um...lots of places to shop?
Bad: FUCKING EVERYTHING ELSE
Going to school in Santa Cruz
Good: awesome climate all year-round, nice, clean beach
Bad: Downtown is a tourist trap, and shit is expensive. Sometimes nothing to do aside from drinking/smoking
I also wish the Aero here in Santa Monica was as big as the Egyptian
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Then there's the mid-wilshire busby's. I went there like 10 times last year and I can't stand it. If you took the hollywood crowd, sifted out the douches, and then took those douches and picked the 100 or so sleaziest ones, and in the same process pulled all annoying women and the women who are just not unattractive, that is Busby's, except that it has the worst bartenders and their bouncers are overzealous (they yell at you for standing and talking).
Of the places I like going, I like the Barney's in Santa Monica (the WeHo one is alright, but it's in WeHo). I went to the Cat and the Fiddle once, and I liked it, but that's in Hollywood.
I wish that the bars here in Culver City didn't suck. They do. And they're filled with people that I went to high school with, or one of my brothers went to high school with.
The Whisky a Go-Go has some good bands occasionally, as does the knitting factory. Naja's down in Redondo is the greatest bar ever though. 77 beers on Tap and the Landsharks, the worlds greatest cover band.
-Terry Pratchett
good: a decent sized city with enough stuff to do to keep you occupied, and still feel like you're in the country.
bad: Every fucking radio station plays R&B or rap.
Ugly: downtown.
Going to school there, but I live in the Valley.
I hope to move there soon, but concerns include: (a) gang violence near SMC, apparently. I'm still not too worried about it, but a lot of people have been mentioning it to me. (b) Good god it's expensive. A studio for 800/month? Fuck you, Santa Monica.
Well, maybe not that severe.
At least it isn't Silver Lake.
not 5 minutes ago I was looking at apartments in the Silver Lake area.
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Nothing human comes from there. Only things that have the resemblance of humans.
Good: It's not Brisbane.
Bad: Shit costs money.
Waukesha? wtf is that
is that by Kenosha
Australian dollars are like rape dollars
so things are like you know, cheaper
also you know where a nice place to settle down and raise a family is? Watts
Pros: Close to Baltimore
Near Amish areas
Not far from Philly
Cons: No culture at all
Huge drug problems
Have to drive to Lancaster for any good Indian food
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Penguin, you realize you can be a miserable asshole wherever you go right?
You don't have to try so hard to look for it
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Good: Right oustide of Philly, which I love.
Bad: Dry town (can't serve alcohol), horrible public schools, boring as fucking hell.
those are the words of someone who isn't 21
no they're not
most things here are more expensive than they are in other countries like cars and clothes because the dollar is so weak
property in this city is stupidly expensive and I would hate to live in Brisbane or Perth right now were inflation is like a million percent because of the mining boom
Good: It's beautiful and the climate is perfect.
Bad: It's fucking expensive. A bedroom is a thousand a month.
Crackheads are pervasive.
Bleeding-hearts are even more pervasive than the crackheads they represent...they protest against everything
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
Good: Bars, People, Living Expenses, Football Games, Scenery, Generally Nice Weather
Bad: Frats, Racists (tend to be Frats), Not a lot of gamers, Can be hot as all shit
Dawg I now live in Schaumburg area; it's been so nice lately (70's) and I will be so fucking mad the first time it ducks below 0 degrees Fahrenheit.
Pros: It's pretty much the same perfect weather every day. We sold the souls of a thousand children to eliminate all the sucky seasons.
It is the only place in the country where they breed pandas specifically for the meat. Delicious
Cons: Far enough from LA that you don't have to deal with the assholes, but still close enough to know that you might have to move there for work reasons.
The good: Nothing in particular besides close people. Its alright.
The bad: The heat. It ruins everything.
Good: Really good food if you know where to look, from all over the globe. Places to dance till 8 in the morning if that's your scene. Decent jobs with benefits teaching English on every damn corner in the city.
Bad: Property value is more or less twice what it is in every other city on the island. Preconceptions regarding foreigners are a huge pain in the ass. Getting people to pay attention to what you are saying is difficult, even if you speak Chinese. The local food is the greasiest, must unhealthy (delicious) crap you could ever possibly hope to eat.
Corona, California: Close to Orange County, but too damn close to Los Angeles.
Pros:
-No pollution, like I'm used to (raised in the San Joaquin Valley).
-Actual trees, actual lakes.
-The city is smallish, but isn't as bad as I thought it would be.
-Everyone is generally pretty nice.
-Completely rad group of friends who are in similar situations (came from another state, are completely hilarious and fun and somewhat nerdy, etc).
Cons:
-People can be fake as hell, despite their niceness. Makes me miss the real (read:rude) attitudes of Californians.
-It seems to me that a lot of people are wistful for the Confederate South, which I just don't understand/think is completely stupid.
-Too many hardcore conservatives.
-City is waaaay behind the times re: recycling, common social issues, common health awareness issues (Relay for Life being the glaring example in my mind).
-No mountains or beach.
The Good - Ulster Fry in the morning, its socially acceptable to be an alcoholic
The Bad - Rain, bombs, violence and on a really bad day all three at once
The Ugly - Your Mom!
I don't know why the fuck anyone would want to live in either of those places, unless you dig the hollywood scene. But then again i've lived here since I was born, so as soon as it's viable for me to move, i'm moving FAR away, maybe even Europe. Just because I like movies doesn't mean I respect the industry. I think the people who work in the movie business are absolute scum (while some can be very good people, though).
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The Movie industry? Are you fucking kidding me? Who the fuck do you even know in the movie industry? Good friends of our family are extras for films and commercials, and that's the only people I know that are even remotely connected with Hollywood. I don't consider them "the movie industry". The closest I've ever got to "the movie industry" was a damn movie shoot that closed off the 105 on ramp right by LAX when I flew back to Taiwan, and I freaked out because I thought some horrible highway chase had gone wrong.
Seriously, fucked up police cars all over the damn place, it was rad.