New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.
I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is.
New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America.
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
I think there are two cities in the world - New York and Rome.
Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
I've never seen America as being one place, but I think the record industry people I've spoken to - although they will acknowledge that the cities are completely different from each other - I think they still handle it as being one territory.