Top 10 Reasons to Love Los Angeles and Never, Ever Leave

SOON. VERY SOON!!!

L.A is the place, city L.A has got all...

I've lived in many different cities & towns that some people would consider "nice", but nothing compares to the energy,diversity & vibe of L.A once you know where to go & a scene to be part of L.A stays w/you forever,like Arnold would say: I'll be back!

LA! Everywhere alse is only good for a vacation. Don't like it leave! We won't miss you!

I'm born, raised and still live in the Bay but I always feel more at home and more welcomed when I'm in L.A. I can't wait to make it my permanent home! :)

This guy obviously doesn't know what the real worl is like outside of LA spoiled! New York is expensive as hell u cant drive anywher, lived on the east coast for 5 yrs, minimum wage is 6fucken $ dont bitch when our is 9! I went bankrupt got my car repo cause I only made 350 every 2 weeks with a full time job main reason i came back to LA! Not to mention snow is not even fun when its just in the way no fun slopes. This guy up here doesn't know what it is outside of paradise moron ive learn not to take my city for granted

We still can't seem to do BBQ all that great (grilling is not bbq!), it takes one hour to drive 5 miles on the 405 in the morning, private valet companies are allowed to take over public parking areas through kick-backs and counterfeit signage, city budget blunders are covered up by increasing parking fines, there's a waist deep pothole outside the LA Weekly office on Sepulveda in Venice that never seems to get filled, 90% of the dog owners at Runyon Cyn DO NOT pick their dogs crap up, and FatBurger's combo meal is $2 too much.

If you dont like it here, leave ASAP so there is more room for me and my friends who all grew up here and LOVE LA FOR LIFE!

Btw I love LA

SHARON, some people don't have the luxury to simply move. People are tide down to jobs, and family. It's not as easy you LA implant

get the fuck out, rolando. don't do things that are ILLEGAL, politicians are corrupt EVERWHERE and educate yourself to a better job. oh yeah, stop your whining and blaming others for yourself being a dipshit!

Sharon, I second the hell out of that. People who hate L.A. need to move so there's more parking for us.

If you don't like it here, move!

Police brutality, corrupt politicians, low paying jobs that don't want to give full time employment in addition to high cost of living in L.A. sucks!

california DOES lead the nation in the number of rapes against women, so...it's easy to get laid there, i guess.

For # 8, there is the home delivery option.

So if L.A.'s so great, why doesn't Voice Media Group (Weekly's owner) move its corporate office here from Denver?

Ellie. true that Joanne`s artlclee is impossible, I just purchased Renault 5 since getting a check for $4742 this-past/month and more than 10k last munth. this is certainly the most comfortable job I have ever had. I actually started 5 months ago and practically straight away was earning at least $73 per-hour. I use this website,Fox76.comTAKE A LOOK

all very funny, the cult thing is scarily true

My reasons are likely somewhat different: at the top of my list, is being able to grow year-round (I own a small organic farm).

tjohoo!! I love it!!

Fuck u haters L.A. In this muthafucka west coast best coast California.

A big city with So much people and traffic, a lot of places to go out and do something.

LA Weekly stop posting things like this! I want everyone to keep hating on L.A.! That way it can just be our little secret as the greatest place on earth.. Shh....

Born there... could not wait to leave... irresponsibly over developed - traffic? Water? Cost of property acquisition in that mess? Often obnoxious social climate... whatever man.

Our LA blogger loves her town and always raves about the art exhibits, art fairs etc happening all over Los Angeles. Check out one of her pieces from the GlobalCulture Blog: http://ow.ly/hpX7r

I love L.A. for so many reasons...the live music being number one. But recently I've been riding my motorcycle from the beach in Malibu to the canyons in South Orange County, and it has really made me appreciate the topography of the region and how easy it is to ride from the beach to the hills in such a short duration.

#5 should be #1

My favorite thing about living in Los Angeles is that I can go to a bunch of concerts and small shows at a ton of different venues no matter which region of L.A I am in at that moment.

This article was a waste of time to read... I wish I had the ten minutes back. This is obviously written from some nut who grew up in Central MO or some other boring place. And now has moved to LA and feels some strange emotional connection to the smog infested filth of this dirty city. Weirdo. Struggling singers or actors, mid 30 servers, jobless wanderers are the majority of the melting pot called LA. Thankfully, my family got out before it was too late. "Learn to swim" people...

What a terribly written article. Had so much potential, too. Not even worth mentioning why it's so bad. The comments say enough.

bleh. its telling that all these "top reasons to love LA" lists are always written as half-jokes. LA is ok, period. the best thing to love about LA by far didnt even make the list: the food

some reasons why I always wanted to get back as soon as I left the city of angels...

It's home!

God, this man is an idiot. Here's my rebuttal on why New York is infinitely better than Los Angeles. 

http://thelifeoferic.com/2013/01/why-i-love-new-york-more-than-los-angeles/

Diversity, people, food, there seems to be street art. It's a great state, if I could compare it to a European country~ considering the food and architecture Spanish Mexican/ Italian~ Napa is like the Montepulciano, England is in Santa Monica,Chianti or Cali. San Francisco very European. San Diego is historical. think every culture really has transformed communities their countries. It's a balanced city~ haven't been to any of the mountains, oh, I love the farmland plats as you drive on the 5fwy~ The 101, FWY I think is the most amazingly breathtaking drive, aside from Amalfi :)

You forgot to mention all the great movie theaters, many of them classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood, with terrific programming, like the American Cinematheque, the New Beverly Cinema, and the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater and Linwood Dunn Theater, as well as classic downtown theaters like the Orpheum and the Million Dollar, not to mention such fantastic cinematic resources as the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Margaret Herrick Library. And of course, the various major studios in town. These things don't all exist in any other place.

This is a terrible fucking article and I am quite sure the author is one of those clownshoes that wears a winter hat and scarf over an expensive t-shirt designed to look like it's from a thrift shop in July and complains about how hot it is. The majority of this list is actually a reason why living in LA is a pain in the ass and then the items listed aren't even good evidence for a bad idea or funny. I'm hating hard. No football is cool? Then how come folks jock USC so hard and are lobbying with a passion to get a team?

I don't want the author to die or get aids or anything that bad, but I hope for some misfortune. Like you accidentally drink out of a beer bottle full of piss at a party or make out with a drunk chick that just finished giving head to someone. DUI, I hope you get  a DUI so you can take full advantage of the great ways to get around LA without a car. Finally I hope you get teabagged, someone takes a picture of it and you become famous on the internet as the passed out kid with a nutsack on their face.

Hate hate hate hate hate

Most of these are bugs, not features.

Why don't people leave LA? Easy. Stupidity and a hatred of money.

Lakers Fans Distrust (our absolutely criminal) Government www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-XXHZteqgM&sns=tw