Live in Los Angeles

LA is such a shithole and this problem has been going on for like 50 years now yet people keep moving there and nobody even bothers fixing it.

You have to live in suburbia and commute hours by a car or you're gommy.

The housing in LA cost supposedly insane amounts. No gommie blocks for land of the free.

tons of cheap undeveloped land with large inexpensive houses

>And if it's so spread out why don't more people move closer to where they work so they can take a bicycle or walk?
The city is DESIGNED with this in mind. Unlike European and East Coast cities, LA was built up after cars were invented. The entire city is built the way it is assuming that 80% of the population lives in suburbs. You can't live in the city unless you're poor and live in a shithole or unless you're rich and like in someplace like Santa Monica.
You try building a train system for a city with an eighty mile diameter. You'd have to tear down so many buildings to even attempt it. Don't even ask about subways, that's even more insane. And once built, you'd still need a way to travel from the train station to your specific destination, which would have to be a bus or something. it's not like New York City where the city is very compact, LA is one of the most spread out cities on the planet.

Can't people just move to suburbia closest to their job or are things just so zoned in LA?

It's not like it's that different from here, car use is increasing constantly despite government efforts to decrease it. I live in the countryside and think it's annoying that everyone in the city also commutes by car when they could just put some effort in and plan their life

LA actually has a higher population density than London, Paris and New York. Public transportation is definitely possible at least in the dense areas

that's not a real picture its a photoshop.

You can, and people of course try to, but the best jobs are near suburbs that are expensive to live in (the suburbs are expensive precisely because the best industries are near them or because the school district is really good). If you can't make it, then you just have to drive to work.

There's also a cultural factor, it's just assumed that if you live in LA that you'll drive. I've never in my life known anyone in LA over 18 who couldn't drive.

>LA actually has a higher population density than London, Paris and New York.
What about Riverside, Long Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim, etc that effectively make up LA?

Cars have more to do with freedom to travel outside of the city in the US than it does to a practical commute. Americans fucking love roadtrips

>Live in Los Angeles
I'm so sorry. I couldn't even imagine living there.

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We have a good 100 years to figure out electric cars, even if ever other country stopped selling us oil we have 50 years of oil left in our ground without rationing

roadtrips are 10/10

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Seconded

this guy knows

>passes you at 60 mph
>flips you off
>breaks off your mirror because you merged without signaling

problem solved, Euro-c*cks.

oh wait you're Murrican but can't lanesplit? Sux to be non-californian, I guess. *wheelies into sunset*

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No they don't, americans spend way more time commuting than going on roadtrips

I live in washington and I lanesplit.

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>americans spend way more time working than they do having fun
huh

Such dull people. Must be all the German blood.

People do here too, that's why I question why people tend to live so far from where they live. Maybe it's just me that despises spending 30 minutes in high traffic

Historically people even lived where they worked

work enables people to have fun. Fun created without work is unfulfilling

because it's still financially possible here and people don't like living in the city, but like the money provided from working in the city.

Nuclear war

So basically jobs are located in the city while people live in suburban areas?

yeah, it's not like that in sweden?

exactly. American cities are made for working, not living

>yfw

I hear drivers in non-Californian states actively try to cut off bikers while they're lane-splitting, even dangerously merging across dashed lines to force them to stop or even worse, crash.

Can't even imagine living in one of those states where drivers aren't trained to live commensally with motorcyclists. Absolute madman, you are.

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Bingo

Maybe if you work in a restaurant or something. Offices, warehouses etc. tend to be in semi-industrial areas spread out over the city that border suburban areas

i've only had people honk at me but my friend faceplanted an open front door while he was filtering to the front.

>whole population of finland packed in land area equal to my home town
Sounds quite shitty

Yeah I'm sure those huge Swedish banks are just out in the woods

Your zones are also a lot smaller compared to ours which allows local business

>forced to become a cager
how horryfing

God that looks so A R I D.

You should try it

Maybe not banks but huge employers like offices, warehouses, factories, grocery stores etc. tend not to be in the city centre

well it's surrounded by desert so yeah it makes sense. The hottest place on earth is only a two hour drive from there

So this is the power of car cucks. Probably going slower than me on my bike. Then again I doubt a car cuck could even peddle for more than a mile without their greasy heart exploding.

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go 300 miles north and suddenly you're in a much wetter place

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Doesn't California cease to be an inhospitable wasteland if you go far enough north? Why don't people live there instead?

Not arid/10, would visit.

I live in Washington

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Because the jobs and important stuff are in LA and the Bay Area. North of San Francisco is 60% woods.

There is but it only serves the rich areas or very urban areas.

my nigga

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Besides Long Beach neither of the cities you posted are considered LA. Those are Orange County and Riverside County

I feel cool the US
Do you live in LA???

This is a blatant lie.

Northern California is basically West Virginia with a nice climate, it's full of meth and bikers. Also LA isn't a desert, that's a meme that came from "Chinatown."

Once you get 100 miles inland it becomes desert but along the coast it's a really nice Mediterranean climate.

It's expensive for american standards for sure but it's a lot cheaper per square ft compared to other places in the world

It's true far out East. You can get decent houses near the desert for less than $300,000

Seeing the picture, I don't wanna drive in the US...

It's Photoshop

Traffic congestion is only an issue in few areas. 99% of american highways look like this

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Really? Can I be cry?

Stop it Jake.

There are stretches of highway in the desert where you won't see other cars for dozens of miles.
youtube.com/watch?v=-aU09WT5rXg

Ryu you need to spend more time studying English, or you're going to fail your exam.

>want to move to LA
>Don't know how to drive
Guess I should just stay on the east coast.

>Wanting to move to California

You should just kys

LA is a dumpy poo turd full of hideous Mexicans

However, I would like to point out that the image is a shoop. That's a highway in China that they cut and pasted multiple times to give it so many lanes. Look closely and you'll see.

I live in Los Angeles, yeah.