Why Do So Many People Hate Los Angeles With Such Passion?

I came to Los Angeles from San Francisco — both places rock

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In a recent Medium article where I (half-jokingly) argue that Los Angeles has better hills than San Francisco, Alice Giuditta responded with just beautiful insight.

Digest some of this wisdom, then we’ll talk about it (it’s a longish quote, but worth every word):

…I first fell in love with Los Angeles when I was 10 years old (Brit, over here). I’ve been a total of 4 times in the past 12 years, and our relationship has been a roller-coaster…

Needless to say, I fell in love all over again, and harder than ever before. It felt like a real love, a grittier love, one that had experienced hardship, that had been through the “will-they-won’t-they make it?” moment and emerged with a renewed commitment.

Reading this story felt, to me at least, like a beautiful ode to commitment. It’s easy to give up on things — places, people, dreams — based on first impressions (or even second or third ones), the chides of irrelevant others or, quite frankly, lack of effort.

And I must say, I don’t subscribe to the idea that there’s nobility in suffering. If you know that shit’s not for you, get the hell out of there.