Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood—and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.
~ Raymond Chandler
I went to see a comic in SF one time and he was doing some jokes about the topic of moving from SF to LA (which he had just done because show-biz.)
“San Francisco and Los Angeles sort of have this rivalry, you know? Except Los Angeles doesn’t know it.”
You could pretty much say that about anyplace and LA.
Yes, on mail order cities. Sears Roebuck used to sell complete home kits back then.
“Sears Roebuck used to sell complete home kits back then.”
My dad help put up the one his mother-in-law lived in! 😉