Anyone have any tips or advice on moving to LA?
Tips on Moving to LA
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LA is not the promised land. You may like it. You may hate it. It's just a place.
Advice: try and get a day job as a longshoreman. I hear they need 13,000 additional because the cargo is stacking up in LA and Long Beach.
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is it everything i thought it would be? that's tough...i moved from austin, TX, so for me the weather is awesome, the people are rude, i live next to a mountain which is pretty cool, the people drive even worse than they did back home, people talk funny, there's not a bbq place on every corner, there's a pantsload of armenians everywhere, there are much fewer hippies, everything's more expensive, and i have yet to receive a 3 picture deal.
obviously your perception is going to shaded in large part by what you're used to and what part of LA you live in. if i had to live in some crappy place in koreatown, for example, i'd be much less happy than i am in burbank. read stuff and visit. rent a car and havea thomas guide. subscribe to westsiderentals.com figure out what your priorities are before you move out here...is living in a trendy part of town important to you? is it important to you to live by yourself, come with someone, find a roommate out here? personally, my finace and i decided that we'd take a smaller place in a less hip part of the city in order to have less financial stress.
looking for apartments, it was a shock to us to learn a lot of apartments out here don't come w/central AC. we're from texas...if you're place doesn't have central AC out there, you're living in a really lousy place. we were extremely shocked to find that not all apartments came w/refridgerators. i'm still shocked by that. but we found a 1br w/fridge, AC (free central AC at that), a pool, in a really nice (as in quiet and well-kept, not ritzy) neighborhood in burbank, right next to glendale. not hip, no fancy restaurants or clubs too nearby, but affordable (895/mo, not bad, it seems, by LA standards) and reasonably big. so there's my story.
everything you read about LA is true, and that includes all the contradictory stuff. it's a huge, sprawling city, so you'll be able to find almost anything you want here. the weather alone is enough to make you question why everyone doesn't live here. just be ready for traffic, lots of driving, and armenians. more questions? let me know...
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some tips
1)thomas guide
2) several mos of rent and/or a job
3)patience. as raven said, being in LA does not guarantee jack and that can be incredibly frustrating.
4)i loathe the weather in la, but then i'm not a fan of brown hazy disgusting smog. after the (bi-annual) rain LA is very pretty for 24-30 hours
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