People drive everywhere in L.A., so you get very little human interaction... but N.Y. and Chicago are like London... L.A. lacks the social interaction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some people go to L.A. just to see recognizable people. There are tour buses. But in New York, everyone seems a little less into that.
I walk out my front door in New York and I'm out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is so much more spread out, so it's really easy in L.A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people.
In L.A., everyone is in their car all the time, so you're used to not interacting with people for the majority of the day, and it kind of trickles into nightlife and all that. People stay within their circles and there's no real mingling to be had.
While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.
Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.
New York is a lot more fun than L.A.
You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.
Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.
In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New York City, walking the streets, taking the subway. You're connected to the larger whole. L.A. is so spread out, and you're so incubated inside those cars and it's so exhausting to deal with the traffic, without really having the human contact.
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.