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[QUOTE=Pornwolf]I lived in both in LA and NY for 7 years until 2003. Kind of a work related bicoastal thing. LA is beautiful but the people in the business cetered areas suck. Hollywood, Beverly Hills, etc. If you are married and you don't go out much LA is a great place to live. It's relaxing but you have access to some of the best things the USA has to offer if you need it. But... if you are the type that likes to go out a lot, have a good time and enjoy the nightlife like I do the plasticity of the people wears on you. I am kind of fond of the coastal areas from Santa Monica to the Palisades though. Less attitude. Even Encino to Pasadena is OK in my book.
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This is a gorgeous overview of the city from a true lover of it's virtues. Thank you for sharing this with me. Yes, I would definately like to spend more time in a city that I've only barely scratched the surface in. I would greatly enjoy a webmaster event in NYC... surely organizers are scared off by the price of throwing the event, the high cost of lodging, etc... but it's definately cheaper than Vegas during CES!!!
I luckily was able to feel this energy the VERY FIRST time I visited New York. It was 10 years ago during a business trip to Internet World tradeshow. A group of us went to this great Soul Food restaurant. It's not your ordinary soul food joint, it was a high-end one if you can believe it. I guess celebs frequent it. Anyway, we were sat down next to Denzel Washington. This was thrilling for a fella from the midwest! Half way through the delicious meal, Jesse Jackson walks in and sits down with Denzel. Not someone I would normally care to run into, but it was interesting to hear the two of them converse.
Anyhow, I thought this entire experience was interesting and I couldn't wait to tell my friends back home about my little "New York Moment". But, alas, the night was far from over!
So, we were walking back towards the hotel when we saw quite a bunch of commotion outside of Studio 54. Turns out that one of the studios was throwing a premiere party for Kundun, starring Harrison Ford. There was the whole red carpet thing with limos, etc... very hollywood. We stood next to the entrance and watched all the famous people enter the party. Val Kilmer, the Beastie Boys, Natasja Kinski, Scorsese, etc... So this chick that was with us started flirting with the door man. Eventually he hands her 3 tickets. We nearly shit ourselves anticipating what other celebs must be in there after the procession we just witnessed.
So we head in, immediately down 3 shots to cool our nerves and begin to look around. To make this brief, an hour later, my friend and I are in this little "chat circle" with Harrison Ford, his wife and some others trying to look like we belonged there. Then over comes Martin Scorsese, his punk son and the girl we were with. Scorsese was so proud that he had finally found the wife for his boy. He invited us to his table, we had a couple of drinks, talked about nothing interesting, and that was that. We left, Carla banged baby Scorsese and the night was history.
gotta love NY. But I still wouldn't want to live there!
marc
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