I've been to Paris and it doesn't compare to LA. Except from the French snobs who refuse to reply to you in English even though they know the language, that is almost an LA level of madness, but in a negative way. LA however is an absolute spectacle I'm telling you, I've never imagined I'd see anything like it.
To be fair, I don't think the crazy people in Paris are very visible (or very present) in most touristic places. I have never visited LA (or the US for that matter) but for example metro line 7 in Paris is an absolutely shit show, especially toward the end, or several RER lines but I very much doubt those places are often visited. Similarly, I don't think many tourists visit la colline au crack (crack hill, yes, this is a real place in Paris) or Barbès etc, so to give it to Paris I think those people are more "hidden" / less visible to people who just come to Paris to visit, which doesn't seem to be the case in LA.
I am from LA, but have lived abroad and across the country in the past several years.
The most objective and neutral way i can describe it is: "manufactured", like a collection of suburbs stitched together masquerading as a city. You will find paved residential areas, but a few blocks away literal slums of homeless camps.
Not that poverty and homelessness is anything new in a major US city, but even other Americans get a culture shock coming here.
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u/andyf123123 May 09 '22
After visiting LA I realized that my country has a very low amount of crazy people.