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- USA SLANDER!! Learn everything you NEED to know about America's most culturally IMPORTANT metro area - the 5th most polluted, 1st most cringe city in the WORLD!! - L.A... where everyone thinks they're main character, where avocado toast costs $15 and where 26 lane highways and concrete gutters divide the urban sprawl into capitalism's Frankenstein baby.
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LA is literally just Night city.
As a man who has lived here for life, yes it is
I can't believe you live in night city, POG!@@scooterbaiz9488
Night city is better
Except somehow uglier and more unpleasant
There is no traffic in Night City
As a New Yorker who has never been to Los Angeles I can confirm all of this is very true and authentic
Hey I’m walkin here!
god himself could not get me across the Rocky Mountains, I'm a New Yorker and god damn LA influencers coming to NY are the most annoying thing
As a fellow New Yorker, my glizzy shaped ego has been stroked further into completion. Another NYC W.
New York is just LA with worse weather and feral-er homeless people
I mean, you live in New York. Not much better, really.
I am european and i find hard to believe such a place exists tbh, it's complete dystopia
Think Paris that genuinely, really decided to take itself seriously
it doesnt exist, its not a dystopia, this person who made this works on behalf of Britain to make USA look bad, to get eyes off how dogshit Britain is.
Doesnt that just apply to the US in general?
@@ffnovice7 Mate, Paris is a literal warzone. I went there almost 20 years ago and it was bad then. My government gave a negative travel advice to Paris a few months ago. It hasnt been lifted.
@@ffnovice7LA is much better than paris. the homelessness is worse here, but LA is really not as bad as all these people on the internet make it seem. just stay near the beach areas and you’ll be fine
As a LA native born and raised I feel like 30% of my life has been sitting in traffic
Specifically I-10 and I-5
As a northern italian living in a small medieval town near the alps i can confirm that LA looks like a giant concrete slab slapped into earth
It really does honestly, some areas more so than others. It’s just noisy polluting vehicles and the complete abolishment of trees so we can have pure smog in our lungs 24/7.
Piemonte ?
Can we trade?
To be fair, you did win the lottery on that one.
As a Turk Istanbul is just a more compact version of LA but still much better
I remember hearing about an initiative to build more public bathrooms in CA, though I can't remember if it was LA or SF; after over a year, the city managed to make ONE bathroom for $1.7 million, and it was instantly trashed by hooligans. A private tech company offered to fund the project instead, but backed out when they realized there were +90 different fees they would have to pay, totaling over $1.1 million PER bathroom. California is legitimately run by insane people, for insane people.
It was SF, they built a 1.6 million dollar toilet, and then there was a 1.7 million dollar toilet that caused enough outrage not to be built. A lot of these city governments are in a very sorry state.
Democrats are the problem
this was just a government earmark. Its a practice where representatives and senators attach a money allocation to their state for a very large sum of money for a very specific reason so people in their district get some money. everyone does it, this one was just for a particularly stupid reason.
that’s what liberalism gets you
@@Dottyythat doesn’t sound right
I live in Japan.
Even the sight of a small plastic bag on the beach is enough to get me into thinking the city is polluted, so this gave me a heart attack.
The heavenly realm is pretty meh, but got wifi so it's okay in the afterlife.
Thanks for reading, have a good day!
Japan is clean because it homogenous
I visited Japan last august and let me tell you. I did not want to leave. That was the best time in my life. We ended up getting stranded on mt Fuji (we were being stupid and didn’t realize that there were no taxi stops near us).But we found an old pizza shop up there, in the middle of no where and it was owned by a father and his daughter and the father ended up giving us a ride to the train station. And saved us. I am eternally grateful for that man. I want to go back and see him. Thank him again. When I eventually came back to San Francisco I was immediately depressed seeing all the trash and homeless everywhere. I plan on going again soon
@@shadowryth7308you are part of the problem lol. You’re so oblivious you get stuck on one of the biggest tourist destinations in the entire world and then whine about having to see unhoused people when you come home.
Gimme a break.
LA doesn’t even have tropical beaches. The weather in LA is warm but the water is cold
And the ocean is dirty. Full of poop and bacteria
@@usuhbi like every other body of water lol
@@usuhbi That's what I call free food and water 👌
No wonder GTA V's satire was so good. They had plenty of material to work with
And Night City in Cyberpunk 2077 is based on LA 💀
As a German before I came to LA I thought los santos was just a parody, and a little on the nose at some points. After I visited LA I understood, it was just a pretty accurate sim.
As someone who has lived in LA my entire life, the first 21 seconds or so are pure fact substance already
My condolences
@@SnowTheJamMan The food is good
Yea this guy don’t miss
It's too bad he couldn't keep the truth going until 3:30
Blaming "Republican dads" for anything that happens in lefty hellhole LA is like me picking a random british political party and blaming them for the state of Birmingham; It's just a terrible guess, man.
Sad moments 😞
LA high speed rail is embarrassing. How the hell are third world countries able to build functioning rail, but in California it takes 100 billion dollars and it's not even halfway finished?
Because no one cares about high-speed rail in the United States and definitely, no one cares in LA. We build 100,000 ton aircraft carriers that are the size of a city, do you seriously think it's a question of actually being able to do it?
@@cameronspence4977makes sense tbh, its stupid but what should I expect from americans
@@cameronspence4977 did you watch the actual video?? He said California actually does want to build it, but they literally can't, despite plenty of funding. And the aircraft carriers are built by DoD contractors, which are a totally different industry.
Well, a lot of people talk about how quickly China built their high speed rails…but they did that by using slave labor 💀
@@anonl5877what is DoD
Basically what i’ve learned is that GTA 5 was a documentary
Honestly, destroying all those rail lines in the 50s and substituting them for highways and an almost absolute car dependancy was probably the worst economical decision the US has ever made.
Those highly congested humongous urban roads and having more parking lot surface than actual living surface is only the tip of the iceberg of the problems it has caused.
With any luck, the government will destroy all roads going in and out of LA.
I mean 70% of their gdp is made out of personal consume so ripping rail lines out and replacing them with highways makes people buy cars that are also stupidly overmotorized so the tank goes empty quicker so they have to buy gas and then also domestic car manufacturers profit
well I'm not from LA or anything like that but I have a keen interest in watching numerous videos about trains. a common theme in old railways, where the abundance of sharp turns. This issue originated from the fact that older trains did not operate at high speeds. Consequently, the individuals responsible for designing these railways opted to construct tracks around obstacles rather than through them. As a result, they're unsuitable for high-speed trains. However, there are certain train models specifically designed to operate on such tracks at relatively higher speeds than one might anticipate. so yeah LA is dump
Actually it's super smart considering how much oil companies lobbying everywhere
Better for big cities, tbh it will help stop traffic and cause more movement on the long run.cars are needed but not in LA.
I went to LA when I was doing college visits, it was genuinely the worst urban area I've ever been in, a true concrete nightmare. BTW this is coming from someone who was born and raised in the what was the murder capital of the country for over a decade.
I remember my friend FaceTimed me while he was on the way to the studio to work with Danny Elfman off an Oingo Boingo tour and he like casually mentioned he got to hang with fucking Trent Reznor to re record some stuff earlier that week and I was like hype because I love both of their music and was like man that must be cool as a producer because we’re all form an incredibly rural area of like 800 people then I saw someone behind him clearly high as fuck walk into moving traffic and he didn’t even notice. He said after living in LA and New York for years he would give anything to move back home but that’s where the talent is so he has to live in there 😅. I thought about it and I was like man, even if I got to meet and work with great artists in the field I loved, I don’t think it would be worth living in fucking LA or New York. I would lose my mind.
Ur from epa?
think he's from Missouri
Are you talking about Chicago, Detroit or New Orleans?
Chicago or Baltimore?
i visited LA as a european and tried walking like 2 km and it took ab an hour bc there was NO pavwmnts , NO crossroads, nothing. I also ended up being super thirsty and couldn't find a single store to buy something at bc they all shop at Hypermarkets like targets and have no neighbourhood shops or anything. Never again
Yeah, walking everywhere sounds like a great idea to a European until it's 120(F) every day
@@cameronspence4977 Floppy excuse. Here in Southern Europe we have the exact same climate as LA, and yet we're able to go anywhere we want without needing to use a car. Maybe if you all start to build cities according to the actual needs of the public, then maybe people in LA wouldn't have to get stuck for +2 hours un traffic just to get to their jobs every day.
@dalius6633 first of all, southern europe absolutely does not have the same climate as LA, it is many degrees hotter in LA on average. 2nd, rebuilding every city in the US would cost more than your entire tiny little countries GDP for the next 100 years so how about you guys go ahead and tear down your whole country like youre asking the US to do, and then come back with your typical arrogant european load of crap after you do that. 3rd, the US has been a car centric country since the 1940s before half the cities in the country existed. No one here cares about public transportation or rail travel, so it *literally is* built to suit the needs of the public, that need being POV travel. Go have a nice sitdown with your completely unfounded superiority complex, then come back and try again
@dalius6633 You just stand/sit in a public bus/train for 2 hours, we sit in our cars for 2 hours.
@dalius6633 Europe has made it too difficult to drive cars now. There is no parking to be found in the cities even if you need the car for something important so instead you end up standing waiting for the public transport instead. At least with a car, you have your own personal space and an a/c to keep you cool. Also, southern Europe has fewer people so its not really comparable.
Geopold is actually pumping out some high quality documentaries that are quite educational
As a foreigner, what I gather from this video is that right-leaning 'murricans are responsible for each and every one of this blue state's problems: from climate change and fires, to education and public transit, to homelessness and crime. Got it.
I love how real estate companies always find such nice words for describing abandoned crackhouses
"this home was built with great bones. It has so much potential"
Real estators are one of societies biggest leaches, on par with car salesmen.
It’s not the buildings, it’s the land. All that value comes from proximity to places that people actually want to be in.
Source:
Edit: Henry George
@@wildfire9280 who wants to live in la
"And here we have a humble abode made with natures own material and even has been blessed by nature it self."
Result: A wooden shack that is basically burned down.
As a Mexican, I died at the end.
Rip amigo
Adios
Descanse en paz
Cada dia más mexicano el sur de usa, un dia por fin desplazaremos a todos los gringos.
Rest in Pepperoni 😔
This is the most British interpretation I’ve ever heard. The vast majority of people in Los Angeles are just trying to live normal lives, not clout chasing
Thank you! I was thinking the same thing. People from outside of LA always think every Californian/Angeleno is either a clout-chasing influencer, or a homeless drug addict. Those are the only two options apparently.
As a Brit who recently went to LA, I loved it. Everything you say is true, but the place has gorgeous weather and bags of personality. Yeah, it's a nightmare to get around and the level of inequality is truly shocking. Equally, it's geographically stunning, with so many gorgeous parks and beaches. the food is fantastic, the people are super-friendly and it's a movie-lover's paradise.
Videos like these are hilarious and great entertainment, but yeah there's nowhere that doesn't have some value in seeing
California is still pretty great it's just getting a little less great every day... And there's been a lot of days already
Prices tend to be high in places that are great to be in. In a lot of Europe the expensive neighbourhoods or cities are the ones with best weather or atmosphere.
Geopold having to become a social commentator is how far this timeline has come. Get em lad
Dank memer hitting me with a profound critique of liberal capitalist ethics 💀💀💀💀💀💀
@@shelbyspeaks3287 neoliberals quaking rn
@@zenordy6747 yeah shaking about criticizing the bigger state with higher taxes, more regulations, more public sectors and most inefficient cities.
If anything this just proves why socialism is garbage.
CA is basically everything a neoliberal hates.
Comrade geopold
He's not smart enough to make a proper commentary on it.
The funny thing is, LA is considered a VERY liberal city in America, but it seems like what you've pointed out in this video is that LA is just about the complete opposite of progressive.
Neoliberal* and yes, the majority of our politicians pretend to be progressive but are whores for money just like the typical politician.
Liberal means capitalist inclined and minimal government interference. It's has nothing to do with progressive policies. That's just propaganda. In that correct use of the word they look very liberal.
Cuz he keeps using the hick accent when in reality California is like the polar opposite of hick areas of the us
@@shnorkeythefourth4572 Dude, California has a ton of hicks.
@@craz5634 in the north, not in LA. I’m well aware most of the state is actually red and there’s a couple red counties in LA but people underestimate just how densely packed those deep blue cities are to offset 60%+ of the state. The hicks that are in CA aren’t the ones calling for these decisions that led to this
“We should give this land back to Mexico” this absolutely killed me 😂😂 I live in Orange County and I’ll only drive to or past LA if it’s more important. That shits crazy
We can buy a skyscraper in 100 million in other states, and in LA, just one storie house in 85 million. Bro wtf.
Where on earth xan you buy a skyscraper for $100 million? And that mansion was probably overpriced by an idiot seller. Homes like that are typically priced high but only end up selling for $20-$30 million
@@therealvlad505 Your Real estate agent could even negotiate it down to $15 million [especially if, the interior has a lot of wood finishes]. Whoever priced it at $85M was...a) either joking or b) totally totally inexperienced. and btw in regards to any deal, the first price mentioned is never the final price! there is always room for negotiation.
Exponentially extending lengths of Geopold’s video’s? Hell yeah
Oh just a thought about LA, I work at a metal company next to the LA River. The city basically will sue us yearly $25,000 for the storm water coming off our roof because it contains high levels of metal we don’t use. (There is nothing on the roof, all pollution is within our building-they don’t care about) We have had it sent to a lab and they confirmed multiple times that it is tire wear particles from cars. Anyway, we offered to spend $300,000 on dry wells to filter it directly into the ground. The ground will naturally filter it, it’s better than sending it to the ocean. The city declined this and basically told us they would rather fine us because it is more profitable. More than Half of that money goes to the board which pocket it. It’s a massive racket but it goes to show how corrupt our city is edit: these same ordinances also apply to all houses, but it is not enforced)
Sad state of LA
Damn that's really stupid
Must be a small company or else they'll be lobbying
So when y'all gonna violently rebel against such corrupt corruption
More Democrat BS.
The *Egg McMuffin* was created & first served at a McDonalds in Goleta, CA (Santa Barbara). I’ve been to that McDonalds (on Fairview) & a golden plaque is outside the entrance 😜
Didn't know the thing about the train. Lowkey gonna be my talking point for every conversation I have for the next 3 days. Thank you
I went into my doctor yesterday for sleeping problems and they immediately prescribed me anti-depressants. I’m not even depressed 💀
Dr: BITCH I SAID YOURE DEPRESSED,now buy my drugs
Get a new doctor.
Get a new country
Aren't you satisfied with our "advanced" modern medicine? Doctors are contract killers for big pharma.
Cool doctor!
Bruh, we gotta send all LA people to live in Eastern Hungary for a week or two. They would return like normal people to their homes after that small trip.
Greetings from Szolnok, Eastern Hungary
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megyében 1 hétig, életreszóló élmény😂
This is legitimately a genius idea.
halaszle-therapy sesh
there is no worse fate then attempting to speak Hungarian. It is like going trough a maze but you are blind,and the walls are made of ants, and you have no legs.
@@napalmsticks6494 anyanyelvi beszélőként nem nehéz bár teljesen el tudom képzelni, hogy külföldieknek rémálom lehet a magyar nyelv megértése és beszélése
Or in a language you understand;
As a native speaker it is no difficult for me to speak Hungarian, yet I can completely imagine that it is a nightmare for a foreigner to speak and understand Hungarian.
I've lived in NYC, DC, Charleston, SC, and currently live in the LA area. I hate it here and cannot wait to move back east. My ideal city is one with the bistory of NYC and Charleston, that has a great transit system, is walkable/bikeable and has local shops and restaurants, but the size of Charleston and with the climate of LA. LA is only great in movies and on tv. In reality, it takes 2.5 hours on the bus to go 15 miles
I recommend going to east la. It has the best view of the whole city.
That overpass/highway to Bakersfield to Merced has been under construction for 8 years. I take the 99 every single day for work and have for the last three years, they are just doing aesthetic stuff now and I can imagine that taking another 2 years.
As an American, I will say that the main reason some people are so against higher taxation is because we see that the government uses it so poorly. If we get taxed more it doesn't go into anything actually useful, which the 128 billion dollar useless train route demonstrates well. luckily in some parts of America, we do get to see some of our tax money being utilized in a way that helps our communities, but most of the time it buys weapons or goes straight into a dumpster fire.
Your country is in need of a dire change in spending, how the governments function, the two party system, but also just the general culture.
@@freekmulder3662 yeah, that (((culture))) right?
high speed rail is desperately needed in a place like california and the central valley was judged to be the best place to start.
why on earth are we bashing a public transport investment in a country with roads that are so ridiculous it could be considered a crime against nature.
@@freekmulder3662 Well if you ask me. Yeah we should completely destroy spending by destroying most of the government, links with businesses and reduce taxes, but if you expect CA to do that you are crazy.
About the two party system, idk what you are talking about, the two party system is everywhere in democracies, the fact that some countries have additional parties who just serve as crown electors doesn’t make countries like Germany less of 2 party systems.
@@martinrosenberger problem isn't about 2 parties system, but rather, they are now so dominant that there is no way another 3rd party can come up and expect a win besides some seats in the Senate. it's only "democracy" in the name. It's just 2 stupid parties fucking about.
This is why Trump was so hated. He actively said out all about this and of course, them goons at either side don't like his presence, and paid fuck tons of money to see him trashed, and worked out.
Needless to say that for my first trip ever to the US, this place was a major letdown... How can people even want to live in this god awful "town" is beyond me. And the poverty OMG ! Avoid at all costs !
Avoid the US at all costs lmao you will never ever be happy with what you're met with
I had exactly the same thing, I went with high expectations and they were just thoroughly shattered.
It wasn't even just one place we went through like 6 states
Curious which region did you visit
@@jefflee4527my brother in christ they visited 6 states it doesn’t matter what region they visited our country is in fucking shambles
Yeah California isnt all what its cracked up to be, there are much nicer and less expensive states and cities.
your editing is so good its unreal shoutout to biiirmingham
out of the 4 places i’ve lived and 14 countries ive been to LA is by far the most livable and versatile
but you're american, so that means nothing
As a Californian I am honored that you made a video about L.A.
i am honor too, thanks
@@julianspaghi4592are you the real honor?
Guys leave him alone it's not his fault he went to a school in california
honored*
@@nikroy3544 thanks for telling me about that.
It must be hard when you go outside in LA and you have to face your state-mandated harassment from at least 6 pranktuber influencers
Nah, trust me bro you will never see a pranktuber influencer for the simple reason that every last one of them fakes their shit in LA lmao
Los Angeles is a mess now. This is something I can’t imagine. Los Angeles wasn’t like this before.
LA exists.
Dubai: Let's copy that.
Loved the video editing 😂 the best part were the sounds, listen with stereo to crack a laugh
I think it's safe to say that we're pretty much living in a cyberpunk dystopia.
L.A?
Funny enough Blade runner takes place in LA.
San Francisco is literally district 9
Even worse, because all we have is the dystopia and none of the cyberpunk.
1984 and 2077 just bordering each other, it's called North Korea and South Korea
As someone who has lived in California (luckily I escaped) it does indeed SUCK, the middle school I went to had raw sewage coming up through the water fountains, teachers getting fired for sexual harassment of minors, fired for smoking the devils lettuce in the school parking lot etc. Its also IMPOSSIBLE to walk to school or anywhere else really, especially in the heat, and with shitty public transport you either have a car or are not going anywhere, it takes 1.5 hours to walk from where I used to live to the nearest post office or grocery store, its just long ass highways everywhere. Wanna go from one town to another? Have fun walking 4 hours in the blazing sun.
Devil lettuce jaja
I still live here and this is actually my experience
But the car is American Freedom TM! Are you proposing Socialism? 🧐 What kind of anti American rubbish is this? Climate town? Not just bikes?
Lol sexual harassers and pedos at every school i've been to bruh
Pretty sure this is standard ops for most of america.
NY is basically Amsterdam after dark, but with less weed and more bagels. LA is just... Tijuana with avocado toast
fitting since nyc was called new amsterdam and california was mexican back in the days
What a good satire. Love it bro. Keep it up 🤗
As a Chicagoan who grew up with an efficient public transportation. I was surprised that only New York compared as far as connectivity of an inner city. Visited LA/SF and currently living in Houston. I'm appalled at the lack of efficient public trans. High speed rail would help Texas and Cali tremendously. Those drives between major cities are rough. Id rather crack a few beers and enjoy the train ride. I miss the train systems of Chicago. You could get virtually anywhere.
It’s funny because the Chicago wheel spoke design blows compared to any actually competent system. Going from oak park to ohare? Enjoy your 2 hour journey downtown and back to travel somewhere 5 miles away.
@@hum6le I agree it has room for improvement. Before I moved I believe they are working to connect more of the city. Its original goal is just to get folks downtown. Then you use the buses to get everywhere else. It’s a shame that even that flawed system is leagues above most of the US.
did you take Route 66?
Chicago could be better. I wish the blue line went to the end of 290 (yeah it's an obnoxiously long ride but the option is nice) and more public transportation to close suburbs. This would cut down on so much traffic. South American cities like Buenos Aires and Santiago have great public transportation
But is Chicago safe?
Fun Fact: Part of the delay for the High Speed rail was caused because Elon Musk was trying to manipulate the Calis into building a Hyperloop instead. A concept solely developed for this purpose, because Elon Musk for some reason hates trains with all his might
Almost like owns a car company
@@Merugafcan you back that with a source ⁉️
He sounds like the big 3 (Ford, GM, and Chrysler).
What do you expect from an evil Tony Stark in real life lol. He came up with """Hyperloop""" to lure all the actual public transportation investments into himself so he could make more car-oriented infrastructure. So yeah Hyperloop is a big giant lie.
That was .5% of the delay compared to the piss poor local and state level government, corruption, property owners, contractors…
The screaming sound effects are killing me. Almost makes me wanna go "AHHHHHHH" 😂
Postmodern philosophy in meme format, love it :)
I'm an Australian but I had the "privilege" to travel through LAX when I was in the USA in 2018 for a school trip. It was the first US airport we arrived at and we were expecting the absolute bare minimum of airport facilities and amenities (especially coming from Australia, we aren't known for our efficient and hospitable airports at all), but nothing on this godforsaken planet could've prepared us for the absolutely chaotic and abysmal state of 'The West Coast's World Gateway'. TSA split the entire group individually and sent everyone to very different parts of the terminal for immigration processing and the agents didn't understand in the slightest or just couldn't be bothered understanding the fact we were travelling as a school group that had already completed immigration screening prior to leaving Australia. It took over 3 hours to properly regroup everyone lmao
We had to walk outside the terminal to a different terminal for our connecting flight, and within 3 minutes of walking between the terminals most of us had headaches from the shithouse air quality, and for a while afterwards every time you'd sneeze the snot from your nose was black.
10/10 would airport again - still better than Dubai International Airport
What's wrong with the Dubai one?
Same thing happened to me when flying in from Sydney. We arrived and were extremely hungry after our 14 hour flight. We were on a glasswalkway above the restaurants and the tsa agents kept ushering us in a certain direction. They led us to immigration and we were out of the airport. We walked around for half an hour trying to find a restaurant
Was there 3 weeks ago. Dubai Airport was quite a good experience imo. The weather tho... hell would describe it the best. Emirates also cancelled the flight and 3 days were waisted. No refunds for the paid hotels and activities. Would not go there again in the near future. But prices weren't that high so that's a plus. Tbh after traveling to most parts of the world I learned that staying in Europe is just the best thing for me.
@@Aresenal1739 as a resident of the LA area- your first mistake was walking somewhere and expecting to find something in a timely manner. Nobody walks in LA.
@@daniellehalen3479 I almost got run over by a 15 tonne truck at a crossing light
The funny thing about the traffic is that LA actually used to have a huge amount of rail transport between Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railway, but they went with freeways (that were originally supposed to have rail built in the median strips but then politicians realized it was the 1950s and they wanted to give all the tax money to cars only).
Some free ways here still have train rails, should be more tho
Forget british humor, this chanel just took british satire to the next level. Love your videos keep it up👊
I went to LA once to visit family. I’ve accepted I’ll never see them again
To quote Stanislav Szukalski, a brilliant modern Polish sculptor and painter: "Southern California is the cultural Siberia of America. A wasteland."
And so is LA. Keep up the great work Geo, the research, script and memes are top notch innit!?!
Trust a Polack to talk about Siberia... Not at all an accurate comparison
But siberia isnt really empty as most think.
@@Silver_Prussianhe never said it was empty he said it was a wasteland
@@owene2530 wasteland means a place that is empty and devoid of any life
To be fair he posed himself as a polish ethnonationalist (just didn't jive with hitlerism specifically) so he probably wasn't a fan of LA because of the "Hebrew" element shall we say.
A note on the pollution vs. population thing, the City of LA is only about 4 million people, but the LA area is chopped up into dozens of independent cities and the overall urbanized area most people not from here would think of as "LA" has a population closer to 20 million.
But if they think LA has 4 million people, they will only look at those 4 million people for their pollution
Thanks for pointing this out, was about to say the same thing. My mans probably just did a quick google search, as 2-3 million is the number that pops up first. LA city just a small part of LA County and the greater Los Angeles area.
These explanations still doesn’t touch on the sprawl. Sprawling cities & counties or metropolitan areas are still carbon intensive even after accounting for total population
@@bicycles-as-far-as-im-aliv5725 that's not the point. He's misrepresenting and lying to prove his point, aka a bad faith argument
We have the same in Western Germany with the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area. Everybody only thinks of cities separately like Cologne having "only" just 1 million + inhabitants but here one big city borders the other and it's basically like a big city with more inhabitants than the whole country of Greece with 10+ million people. Including some places around that area it's even up to 18 million. This way of thinking also causes stupid decisions by city councils...
Hey i thought you editing style and commentary was really funny! You earned a subscriber
I’m a first responder, born & raised in LA. While working on a busy day il drive around 200 miles & about 40 on a slow one. This dude has no idea what he’s talking about, at best he’s massively exaggerating what he’s saying. At peak hours it’ll take me 1:50 to get from Long Beach to The Valley around 40-50 miles not 3+. Our homeless population is this insane cause we have a lot more programs to help homeless folk, (although they are overburdened) there’s near zero chance of freezing to death during the winter, & more people means more chances to get $ or food from others, not to mention there’s more understanding from the more progressive coasts towards homelessness & the factors leading to it than fly over states or backwards southern states that & it seems like a lot of mid western states & southern states had under the books programs sending their homeless to the coasts, similar to how they send immigrants to NY. The vast majority of ’infuancers’ aren’t even from here so they get their bad habits from wherever they come from. The Arnold bit is the strangest one but being an immigrant & an actor aren’t grounds to write anyone off from public office as a country we’re in this horrible state because we’ve had lawyers & economists running the show for over a century now, at least actors and immigrants know what it’s like to be poor. The reason the rails price skyrocketed is because people who’s land the rail way goes through or communities it passes through sue the gov and we have to go through the entire legal process so blame those conservative rural areas for that one. The reason it goes through the Central Valley (besides the fact that it’ll help those central cal cities) is because we have fucking mountains on the coast the price would be FAR higher digging through those mt ranges instead of flat open land, let’s not forget that making it a tunnel comes with increased regulation ya know cause crashes & fires & possible explosions n shit.. the la river might have more bacteria than somewhere else is simply cause it passes through a major city & it’s hot here bacterial growth is accelerated in warm waters idk how that’s a difficult concept to grasp. On the whole pharma side he our system is ridiculous but for better or worse we subsidize the prices for the rest of the world.
This one’s wild to me… We don’t get more fires cause we artificially irrigated so cal, causing more plant growth… we get wild fires cause this area is historically dry (vegetation has always been here Mediterranean climate) the issue is climate change has exacerbated the droughts causing vegetation to be drier now than in the past. The congress women who said Jewish space lasers was a far right antisemitic conspiracy theorist Margery Taylor Greene. School system is fucked because of Republican appointments to education secretary who’s husband is a leading figure of the ‘Lincoln Project’ a group idea-logs who wants to do away with any and all publicly funded programs that help people how is anything supposed to function properly with no $$.. the clown that made the vid didn’t walk cause his city was built around cattle trails & for the detriment of society our streets were planned around the car another thing that’s pretty simple to learn had he used google,& we have such a high carbon footprint here cause we have almost 10 million people who need AC since we get to temps around 115 during our summers so he’s being disingenuous using number for the metro area but only using la city pop. No with a Brain argues cars are more efficient & we don’t have 26 lane hw max is 14 around the 10 in SGV. In conclusion guys a fucking clown.
Exactly, this is obviously anti-CA propagnada created by anti-CA right wing money.
As a Merced resident, I love how you represent how relevant our city is
As a Victorville resident I agree
I live in LA and work as an engineer, and boy howdy do I have stories of the High Speed Rail system. It was passed as a ballot measure by the voters for $20 billion back in 2008. In 2009 the first planning stages got started. The preliminary engineering got started around 2012. My company worked on a small section of the HSR in LA to Burbank and our plans and reports went absolutely nowhere. Seven years and 18 versions of plans later, nothing has happened. We got paid but nothing has happened and now we're going to get a train from south-central nowhere to north-central nowhere for 6x the cost. Good job California, you're doing great, sweetie!
Elon Musk interfered with the high speed rail so he could sell more crappy cars. Thought this was common knowledge.
You know what that means, right?
I’m a little late to this comment, but could maybe give your opinion on why this happened like it did? It seems like so many projects have taken turns like this in America. The corporations are getting their money first and don’t feel the need to follow through or what?
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I'm American, and agree cars are kinda dumb, like, car culture in the '60s was awesome, and i love a good road trip, but i actually really prefer to skateboard everywhere, it's more efficient, cheaper, safter, no emissions, and way cooler. (also never need to buy gas or find parking)
Edit: obviously anything longer than like an hour drive i would rather drive, but still skating better overall
Bro I’m 2 and a half minutes in and this is my first vid of yours I’ve seen. The way you talk about England makes it sound like fancy talking Philadelphia
As a teen in the UK, I originally thought that L.A was the city of dreams and angels with caring moviestars and riches ,superior to all the world's people, however now I would rather love to live In Mexico from the horrors I witnessed in this video.🇬🇧🇲🇽
as long as you live and pay in pesos is all good
LA is basically Mexico at this point
Trini here , i can confirm its the worst😂
As a person from a small, affordable, walkable and well connected city in Northern Spain, LA is starting to look like an absolute nightmare to me ☠️
PD: Great video!!
LA has a number of walkable and bike friendly communities in it. Much more than you typically find elsewhere in the US.
@@Sojourner-Life yeah right lol
@@Moisto. Especially my particular city in south LA called Long Beach... We have a bikeway system, water busses, light rail to downtown LA, rental bikes and scooters, pedestrian-focused traffic calming zones, roundabouts, and more. Sorry to counter your confirmation bias.
@@Sojourner-Life That's nice to know!!
@@Sojourner-Life”my particular city in LA” my boy are you trying to say there’s a city in a city?? Also no confirmation bias at all, you don’t live in LA!! It’s like me saying I live in LA when really I live in Manhattan Beach. This video talked about Los Angeles not Long Beach.
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Great video, just one thing. Noone is proud of this system. Nobody thinks our politics and politicians are doing a good job.
As someone who lives in LA, everything you’ve seen in the media about how nice LA is, is true but only if ur like rich, u never see the real nasty stuff that happens outside of the city in the small neighborhoods it’s either bunch of gangs or living in a neighborhood that’s getting gentrified , making everything super expensive and more homeless people
If I think back of the things I see about LA in the media, I think of homeless encampments, a failing high speed rail line, drained aquifers, and basically a failed state where the rich live in gated communities while the poor have to resort to cannibalism to survive.
I guess it depends on the media you consume.
Shoutout to Escape from LA, underrated movie.
@@TheSuperappelflap the benefits of capitalism lol
@@TheSuperappelflap but in all honesty, I'm kinda glad that homeless people in vietnam here does still get some help from the government to sell lottery tickets or if some are luckier they are given small shops to survive but of course it's not all of them that gets help from the gov. But at the very least, it's not like USA where they try to actually silently kill off poor people
@@tuankhangcaonguyen5545it’s complicated, we actually do have a pretty large welfare system (food stamps, SNAP benefits, Medicare, unemployment insurance etc.) but if you’re on the extreme margins of society you’re pretty screwed.
Here's the Egg McMuffin story nobody asked for: The sandwich was invented in 1972 by Herb Peterson and his assistant Donald Greadel who operated a McDonald’s Santa Barbara franchise in Goleta (though it was just part of Santa Barbara back then as Goleta wasn't incorporated as a city until 2002). Born and raised in Chicago, Peterson once served in the US Marine Corps, where he attained the rank of Major in three years during WWII. After the war, he began his career with McDonald's as vice president at D'Arcy Advertising in Chicago, which was McDonald's in-house advertising arm. Peterson coined McDonald's first national advertising slogan, "Where Quality Starts Fresh Every Day".
He later became a franchise co-owner and the operator of six McDonald's restaurants in and around Santa Barbara. Peterson ended up developing the Egg McMuffin because Peterson liked eggs benedict, so he worked to develop a breakfast item which was similar to it for the fast-food chain! The original McMuffin was served open-faced because a small tub of strawberry preserves was provided along with a knife. The sweet and savory approach did not catch on in the US, however. Peterson died in Santa Barbara in March 2008 at the age of 89.
Thank you Supreme leader Kim Jong-Un, you're not so bad actually
"The sandwich was invented..."
OMG, I had enough 😂
❤️YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FEAR DEATH IF YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, AND TRUST IN HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART, BECAUSE HE ATONED FOR YOU FOR ALL YOUR INSULTS, THAT YOU WOULD OBTAIN PEACE WITH ALMIGHTY GOD, AND GO TO HEAVEN BY HIS GRACE!🎉
@@josepoika5388 You should stop internetting until you can avoid bringing religion into a totally nonreligious conversation. Comment reported as spam.
I grew up next door to peterson’s daughter and met him a couple times. A jolly fellow
I see why L.A. was used in Blade Runner
Good video but the section on the California High Speed Rail Project was a bit off. There is good amount of people who live in the central valley, about 7 million. I think the reason for starting in the Central Valley mainly political, if that section was completed first, it would basically force the state's leaders to finish the project or cancel it and admit failure (which would be political suicide) While there still is a chance of the project being cancelled this might be part of the reason for the decision. Land acquisition is also much easier when most of the area you are going through doesn't have people living through it, allowing the high speed rail authority to gain more experience building before doing it in a more populated space where mistakes might be more expensive. The costs have of course ballooned way beyond initial expectations. I don't really know enough about the exact reasons for this besides land acquisition being very expensive, general lack of experience and not working well with SNCF and other consultants, and environmental regulation getting in the way of a project which would eliminate a ton of pollution and carbon emissions. There has been a case study from the NYU Transit Costs Project, so if anyone is interested that's probably a good read. I know this is a meme video which I'm writing some big ass paragraph in the comments of a meme video but that's kind of the nature of people interested in transit. Your channel is really funny overall though, keep it up.
How to cope with living in the United States I live in highland Park LA I like it but outside this bubble it gets depressing
The thing is Los Angeles wasn't always this huge traffic mess! At one point in time, Los Angeles had the largest trolley system in the WORLD! The streetcar system was primarily operated by Pacific Electric (1901-1961) and developed into the largest trolley system in the world by the 1920s. This breadth of scale enabled residents and visitors alike to routinely traverse the Los Angeles region, from Santa Monica to San Bernardino. Many modern communities were built around the streetcar network and retain its influence in their gridded street network and relatively dense form. The system operated for over half a century, and at its peak included over 1,100 miles of track with 900 electric trolley cars!
This network produced a rate of public transit usage higher than that of modern San Francisco, on a per-capita basis. So what happened to them? During the war years, transit ridership spiked because of government gas rationing. But the streetcars emptied out again in peacetime. Between 1945 and 1951, the number of riders carried each year fell by nearly 80 million. Cheaper to operate and requiring less maintenance, buses began phasing out the streetcars very early. In 1926, 15 percent of the total miles traveled by Pacific Electric riders was along bus routes, that share would more than double by 1939. Large-scale land acquisition for new freeway construction began in earnest in 1951 which further killed them
Every so often I pull up a map of the old Pacific Electric Rail System and just spend the rest of the afternoon crying
As a transit enthusiast, this makes me very sad.
Yet people still believe we are progressing
The U.S. used to be peak when it came to public infrastructure.
❤️YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FEAR DEATH IF YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, AND TRUST IN HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART, BECAUSE HE ATONED FOR YOU FOR ALL YOUR INSULTS, THAT YOU WOULD OBTAIN PEACE WITH ALMIGHTY GOD, AND GO TO HEAVEN BY HIS GRACE!🎉
As a fellow Compton dweller, leave me roasters alone god dang it I love your content :D
Lets not forget LA was the sole inspiration for Los Santos. GTA's most commercially successful city and the stage for GTA online. Arguably the most successful MMO of all time. Which like the real LA is falling apart due to neglect 😂😂
LA is one of the most surreal places I've ever been to. Feels like it was built entirely by accident and the traffic is, no exaggeration, some of the worst I've ever seen in my life. Of course, it'd be one thing if long commutes through such a sprawling city actually had something interesting to look at but most of our time spent getting from one place to another was on these highways surrounded by sound walls. Not that they really needed them. Cars almost never honked and because many of them were hybrids engine noises were minimal. We only ever saw people when we reached our destinations. Everything between Universal Studios, Compton, and Venice Beach felt like limbo.
Engine noise isn’t the problem, the literal sound of you moving at high speeds generates lots of noise. For example I live in Orange County across the Santa Ana River from the 91 freeway, and since my side has no sound wall, I can usually hear a constant hum of the freeway. Occasionally you’ll hear a big engine noise but the most of it is just the sound of tires moving fast
We need an update on the israeli-palestinian conflict from Geopold himself, he's the only person capable of solving this quarrel.
He already has solved it. The land belongs to Wales
it belongs to wales
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Geopold is the best medicine
Long time ago a funny austrian artist came up whit a solution
I am from PA, and California is literally the most beautiful place I ve ever been (I was born and raised in North Africa, spent my 20s all over Europe, and travelled a bit all over the world), too bad the cities are messed up the way they are and cost of living is unsustainable! The weather is perfect and the nature is just breathtaking!
Lol I am from North Africa too and California is so overrated and the worst place i've been to.
@@ahmedLibyan Remember we re talking about a state that is bigger than Belgium, Netherlands, Tunisia, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Portugal combined...
The weather is amazing, the nature is the most beautiful I ever saw! (I ve lived in 4 European countries before), I think that it is completely unreasonable to say that it's the worst place you ve ever been to...No way in hell! (Again California isn't just the cities of LA and San Fransisco...)
@@Hitman.13. I actually drove from LA to SF and I must say yes there some natural places are amazing but when it comes to everything else you need it’s the worst! If you only talk about nature then the entire America continent is beautiful
@@ahmedLibyan My comment was strictly talking about beauty, as I said the cities are messed up and the cost of living is unsustainable!
Big shout out to all my Libyan Brothers and Sisters, I am from Morocco, wishing you and your family an amazing start of the year, with all the wealth, health and happiness you deserve إن شاء الله
I agree. Let’s give California back to Mexico
Lets disband the Commonwealth first.
so make it a bigger shithole
As a person who lives near LA I can confirm this is true
Dude, agreed
Bro actually criticizes the cons of a real situation in a funny, memorable way yet states facts at the same time, respectable as hell. I'd be honoured if I rescued you from Birmingham :) (you would end up in either Istanbul or Malatya but better than suffering in the brummie)
I’ve never watched a CZcams video creator that says infrastructure this often and I’m genuinely here for it
Me watching this video while analysing Ecoli levels in Scottish Rivers , well done L.A
"Building an extra 20 lanes on highways to fix traffic is like printing more money to fix inflation" 10000% :D
a fellow urban planning and traffic engineering enjoyer i see
You can summarize LA as: Seeing a homeless person, tents and a Range rover in side by side in the same street.
Or even better. 3:18 - 3:35 There's someone on top of a G wagon throwing money at a bunch of homeless people in skid row.
or the range rover is the tent
Soooooo.... you’ve only seen LA (and America) in CZcams videos
Tbf to the HSR project the reason they're having the route go through the Central Valley is twofold: geography and development.
For Geography, even though it looks like a Minecraft desert biome, that actually makes it perfect easy to build the infrastructure for the rail as it is relatively flat and free of natural obstructions. Having the rail system be built "straight" from LA to SF would have the line go through the numerous mountain ranges dotting the Pacific Coast, which would make the project take longer and cost more than it would need to be (yes, even more so than now).
For Development, having the rail system interconnect with the cities in the Central Valley would be a huge boon of commerce for those communities. I shouldn't need to elaborate why the movement of people here would make more money. Should they not also benefit from this huge project that natural Geography has already dictated will go through them? The trains in Europe have stops in cities and towns that some would consider "quaint". Why should it not be the same here?
As a Mexican I can confirm that this is a based take
I just LOVE these longer videos. Every second I'm just ready for the video to end, but it just keeps on giving and entertaining me.
As a Las Vegas resident, whenever California Burns - we get summer shade.
Las Vegas literally becomes cooler when California is set on fire.
I’m from Orange County, roughly 24 miles from Los Angeles and I can’t stress how much I truly dislike LA lol. There is no reason why driving 24 miles should take two hours. And once you make it have the worst time finding parking. I truly don’t get why people want to live there.
Republican dads(or even Republicans in general) in Los Angeles?!!, I haven't seen that since the 80's. Other than that as someone born here, I find this very accurate. You should make a video about SF, which is where most of the bad stuff seen here comes from (NorCal in general). To be more specific, those types of things majorly come from the worst type of people in my city/state: Transplants from other states trying (and mostly failing) to make it "big". That and a long chain of incompetent Democratic lawmakers and their failed policies.
Socal is where all the states problems are. Norcal is the one also generating the entire economy of the state.
Yeah you’ll only find republicans out in the boonies or the mountains nowadays.
Republicans don't want anything to do with California in general, the few that remain are probably just too poor to leave, or just dont give af.
There are more Republicans in greater LA than there are in several red states
Las political views actually aren't just as simple as republican or Democrat lmao you'd find a lot of liberals with republican values and vice versa
What is it with pristine silvery rivers getting turned into liquid wastelands? In Argentina, Río de la Plata ("River Plate") got its name because of how crystalline it was and now, well, the water is green and it gives off green fumes like in cartoons
(I just remember I've provided this example before in another comment, rip originality)
En Inglés plata es “silver”
It was never named because how crystalline it was, it was named that way for the same reason Argentina was named that way, due to the belief that Silver was abundant there from the mines in Lima.
It’s actually an estuary rather than a River, with brackish water and mud mixing contributing the the mucky colour, not pollution. That’s how it naturally is.
Now, the Riachuelo on the other hand 💀
Arnold doesn’t have “severely lower than average” intelligence. The man speaks several languages and is incredibly successful. What a cope.
Now you understand why in the Percy Jackson books, the entrance to hell is located here
But if Los Angeles exists, isn't Los Demonios doing the same thing?
It will be the most efficient and humble city
It will still be lot more better than LA
Whatever you think of california, we can all agree. We need more than one joke state, without it it'd all be concentrated on new jersey and we don't want that
All of the states here are either joke states or too boring to remember off the bat ngl
@@milkywayflea404 Imagine being Delaware, at least people remember Ohio. It's a state whose only purpose is esoteric legal/business manoeuvring.
2:11 >cheesehead
ummm as someone from Wisconsin, that’s *our* word, thank you 💅🏼
Born and raised in the outskirts of LA and the “river” gets so polluted that they say not to go in the ocean for a few days after it rains
As a kid who grew up in San Diego I've never heard the California situation described so well, also I'm not a kid anymore, I'm almost 40 and live outside in Woodinville and I work at a drug store
As a New Yorker, this is like looking in the cleanest yet dirtiest mirror. Drug addicts, delusional dreamers, expensive for no reason, pollution, and an odd misery permeating everything.
As an Arkansan who doesn't have any big like sky scraper cities it's always interesting to learn about the real GTA 5
and the best part is that California's vanity induced, man-made ecological disaster is vehemently blamed on climate change.
Long geopold video? This is truly a blessing