I’ve been to LA- Stayed at a friends in West Hollywood at the bottom of Runyon Canyon.
In the first episode of season two, before Joe gets to his new apartment he turns the corner and walks by random people (taking selfies, a photographer taking pics of a “model”, what looks like a younger woman talking to her phone like she’s on Instagram or FB going live, etc). I screamed at that scene!! I have witnessed the LA social media fckery first hand and it looked just like that scene. It was the weirdest second hand embarrassment trying to walk down a street dodging boyfriend/photographers and ppl walking into me backwards like no one else in the world existed.
That was 5 years ago, so I can’t imagine what the SM scene is like out there in 2020.
(LA) In my opinion:
- they have amazing donuts
- it’s beautiful - natives are super chill and will go out of their way to make you feel welcome and comfortable (real face to face conversation with a well intentioned stranger is likely)
- most non-native’s are self absorbed (or I’m just a snobby New Yorker lol)
- apartment wise; you get wayyyyy more space in LA than NYC for the $$$ but Joe paying rent at $12/hour is not believable.
- majority of the people I came in contact with were under 30, had a lot of free time, appeared to have limitless funds, and own a business or brand.
- almost all businesses were cashless and everyone paid w/ their phones, employees don’t want to touch cash.
- Eating healthy, vegan, non gmo, taking wheatgrass shots, going to oxygen bars, and hiking/working out is an unwritten rule; They had a Cool Sculpt (fat burning) machine right in the gym.
- I’m 5’3 / 105 lbs / petite and felt like I was fat for the first time in my life. Real talk, women are either super skinny or have Kardashian curves with a flat stomach and stick legs.
That’s my honest opinion. Trying to be unbiased, but
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