How is it living in California? I spent 26 years of my life living in a rural Bavarian town. It's beautiful but also boring as shit. Nothing is going on here. Some music nights, mostly for older people, and that's it. In Munich it's not much better either.
But how is it in Los Angeles, etc.? I always walk around Los Santos in GTAV and imagine how it is to live there. You have beaches, good weather, great food everywhere, enormous supermarkets, events, big cars, etc. If you are bored and don't know what to do, why not just hanging out at a beach in Malibu and enjoy the sunset at night. Maybe you meet some film actors that you saw at that huge Cinema in a movie the weekend before.
I imagine like it never gets boring. Unlike here in that small Bavarian village where the most exciting time is when I go online on steam and play pubg with a friend.
I live in the greater LA area, and its boring here. but I guess if you're an extrovert then yeah you'll enjoy it
Liam Lee
It's almost impossible for a european to live in the US, when you're used to be safe in the street and not caring about anything switching to such a country can be a terrible experience
Robert Martin
Americans from LA would think living in a beautiful Bavarian town surrounded by history and culture would be awesome. It depends on what you're used to
Hudson Johnson
>tfw no autistic german bf to return home to in my san fernando valley apartment and play city building games with
Blake Stewart
i think you don't know americans, or at least don't know no one from a big city
Jeremiah Jenkins
Good thread. I like OP even though he's a german.
Christopher Rivera
1) Have money 2) Have money 3) Be fit. Californians are a bit ruthlessly strict about looks so try to be somewhat muscular if male.
If you meet the above two, Cali can be a paradise, though I really do emphasize the money part, make sure you command a decent income if you really want to enjoy living there since everything is for some odd reason doubly expensive.
Also avoid Southern Cali and live in the Northern part. LA is fun but somewhat overrated.
Also, as someone who moved from California to a semi-rural paradise almost 3000 miles away, I can safely tell you that this is just another instance of "Grass is Greener" thinking. The city and its lights can wear you out after a while, and a pretty bucolic small town becomes really attractive after that.
Caleb Brooks
>you will never live in Los Angeles, work in the American porn industry and have sex with cute teens everyday >stuck in a rural shithole forever till the day i die instead
Jason Ward
There's nothing wrong with boring when you realize what the alternative is. Sure, you can go to all sorts of events whenever you want, but if you live there it's not like you're doing that every night. You could probably just as easily get on the train where you live and visit somewhere more lively.
Luis Jenkins
There are Brazilians here that are personal trainers, dance teachers, and open up acai shops.
Kayden Carter
it's not much different from southern germany
Bentley Cox
Just like in that doc Hollywood movie with Marty McFly
Lincoln Perry
Also this.
If you're in any degree socially awkward and have ever in your life posted, or even browsed through Sup Forums, you probably won't enjoy living in Normie cesspits like LA, MIA, NY and the sort. It's why i'm not surprised that most American users on Sup Forums seem to come from mid-size to small towns out in the middle of nowhere
Nicholas Barnes
California is beautiful but avoid LA unless you think you'll like the unique, sprawled-city life. Small beach towns between LA and SF are the best.
Sebastian White
also don't fall for the palm tree meme they're ugly
Matthew Butler
damn thse houses look like gta v!!!!!!
Carter Rivera
Rich Brazilians can easily move to the USA, now us poor ones are essentially stuck here forever. When i said rural i was being kind, i mean backwoods shithole, 7 hours away from the beach and we only got telephone lines(and subsequently internet) in 2005, until then i was completely isolated from the world, i only knew Los Angeles and Miami from movies.
Evan Robinson
These two are right, though like says, it's matter of wanting what you've never experienced. Cities are glamorous and very exciting but they best suit certain personalities. Your typical socially maladjusted Sup Forums autist wouldn't enjoy living there for more than a few days since you'd quickly realize how out of your depth you are in a place full of actual Chads and 9/10 women everywhere.
And yes, unless you're a legit celebrity just avoid LA. Tryhards, wannabes, pretentious cunts everywhere and too many sports & luxury cars on every goddamn street that'll leave you feeling mildly butthurt.
Grayson King
There's a small town in Southern California called Solvang that is basically a Dutch theme park but without rides.
Brandon Nelson
дa yж
Oliver Williams
It's a Danish town you dumbass.
Aiden Fisher
чe зaбыл в бeльгии?
пoчeмy ee флaг в нeмeких цвнтaх a paзгвaopивaют нa фapнyзкoм??
бля бyдy c oппикa эти мaлeнькиe дoмики y бepeгoвoй линии, щaбop из кycтoв мeдлy ними - нy гтa!
Hudson Watson
>Go to Dartmouth University, all the way up in New Hampshire >All those Brazilian students >yfw the bunda meme isn't a meme after all
Even if the school is world renowned, still wonder why someone would move from the tropics to attend school in the freezing forests of New England.
Ethan Peterson
>LA was never an industrial city at any point in its history. Wow a history major posting here looks like.
Nathan Wood
You spend too much time in the tourist areas. The people that are L.A. natives aren't like that.
Grayson Mitchell
What's the difference? There are really only three cultures in Europe: Northern, Slavic, and Mediterranean.
Bentley Roberts
гoлyбчик мoй, бoльшинcтвo из нac гoвopит пo-нидepлaндcки
Samuel Gomez
>Cities are glamorous and very exciting but they best suit certain personalities. Your typical socially maladjusted Sup Forums autist wouldn't enjoy living there for more than a few days since you'd quickly realize how out of your depth you are in a place full of actual Chads and 9/10 women everywhere
New York and Chicago are more blue collar, but LA was never an industrial city and and it's always been a glamour kind of place, at least since the establishment of Hollywood early in the 20th century.
An autismo neckbeard would feel alienated in LA for sure.
Ian Hernandez
>9/10 women everywhere. how much of them are pure northern european whites, though? natural, not dyed, blondes?
Matthew Gomez
Same goes for NY, but guess what American media has done to these cities..................
It has glamorized them to the stars and beyond, so much so that non-touristy areas and the areas without a cancerous transplant presence are becoming the exception. Transplants from other states are the death of any big US city
Dylan Mitchell
>нac poдитeли бeльгийцы?
дaвнo тaм? пpoгep? тян кpacивыe?
A пpинцeccы, я знaю, знaют пo 4 языкa(гoлл фp нeм и aнгл) - нo кaкoй их ocнoвнoй? фpaнц?
Landon Johnson
Since Brazil has no educational system worth anything...yeah.
Benjamin Ramirez
Maybe because USA is like 15 times better than Brazil and also Brazilians correlate snow with first world, so if you post a selfie of you in a snowy people, your friends from Brazil will get very envious of you. Brazil is all about your external image and the way people perceive you.
Adrian Stewart
Go southward to San Diego, that's a much more scuzzy blue collar town and the local economy is heavily dependent on the US military, both as a naval base and because of defense contractors.
Asher Edwards
Tы кaкoй-тo хyecoc. Tьфy нa тeбя.
Michael Phillips
>9/10 >usa hahahahaah
Caleb Parker
>3) Be fit. Californians are a bit ruthlessly strict about looks so try to be somewhat muscular if male.
That's the land of Muscle Beach and Gold's Gym after all. :^)
Jacob Harris
If playing Players Early Acces Beta Grounds is a highlight in your daily life It doesnt really matter where you play it.
James Cox
oтчeгo злишьcя? я вeдь poдoм из бeльгии, a этих пpницecc-тo o чeм ты вooбщe нe знaю
Jackson Evans
LA sucks cock, one of the worst major cities in the US imo.
Nicholas Taylor
>An autismo neckbeard would feel alienated in LA for sure.
I think Elliot Rodger is living proof of that.
Daniel Peterson
Bump
Jack Foster
This. Our Scandi genes have left all the women looking like emaciated Somalis desu.
Blake Cruz
Do you like: 1.5 hour commutes that are only 15 miles? Mexicans? Paying $20 bucks just to park? Smog that is rivaled only by China? Mexicans? Lines for literally everything, including food and turning left on a fucking street? Getting shaken down on every corner by niggers and """veterans""""" who who just need money fo dey families? More Mexicans? Idiots blasting rap music everywhere? More terrible infrastructure? Roads that are literally clogged with a 50-50 mixture of Mexicans and old people who drive 20 miles under the limit at all times? Even more Mexicans?
If yes, then please come here, you'll feel right at home.
Robert Smith
Sounds like Soviet Union to me
Benjamin Brooks
>all of these flyover state subhumans getting mad at California in here It's fine. I too would be mad if i lived in some welfare dependent shithole in West Virginia
Hudson Rivera
to each his own, ese.
Luis Fisher
I wasn't talking to that deadbrained Belgian that (You)d me. Non Americans really shouldn't exist desu.
Ethan Parker
Just move to the LA of LA.
Samuel Phillips
Dully noted, vato. Here, have another (You) from yours truly.
Samuel Thomas
It's shit. If you're an autist you never fit in and are an outcast. I would love to live in a nice Bavarian village. There's a thousand more times culture and dignity there than here.
Hunter Jenkins
Why? Why can't you be an introvert in LA? I can understand about NYC, it's a crowded and noisy urban center, but LA is very spread out.
Brayden Long
>Non Americans really shouldn't exist desu. Its a comfy thought to be frank. There are a lot of natural resources everywhere that we could use else but these countries are occupied.
Jayden Morgan
Is the water crisis resolved completely by now? When I was there in 2013 it everyone there seemed to think it was the end times for California because of the drought
Landon Kelly
Why do people think LA is not a place for introverts? It's a very sprawled suburbia city.
Anthony Price
I live in the LA metro area. It is not for introverts at all. It's the center of Hollywood materialistic culture. Normie beach culture, and tourists. It doesn't matter that it's spread out. There is still tons of people here and everyone moved here because of the Hollywood memes. It's about as normie extrovert culture as you can get.
David Fisher
>Dartmouth One of my friends went there. Kinda weird that she did English major rather than econ major (I thought Dartmouth is famous for sending its graduates to finance shit) >Small beach towns between LA and SF Better than OC or SD? LA? NY or London is a better place for culture and stuff. If I were to choose a West Coast city to go for culture and shit, I'd pick SF
Dylan Barnes
LA is what gave us Chad rock like Motley Crue and RHCP, that should give you an indication of the city's mentality.
Aiden Miller
LA is grimy, gigantic, full of crime, and the air is dirty. Living in it is overwhelming, due to the literally constant stimulus from every direction. The celebrity prevalence meme does have some merit, since you're significantly more likely to see someone about their daily life, but it's not grandiose like you may imagine it to be. Like approaching any other random stranger, but this time they have a pre-set aversion to speak with you since they actively avoid attention, usually. It's also stiflingly hot. In Bavaria, I think your weather is better and your region is much prettier. We are ravaged by drought, you are lush and green. Our oxygen is corrupt with smog, yours outside of Munich is seemingly pure. You do, however, have way less to do there, that's definitely correct, and CA is on average more exciting. I guess it depends on what you're looking for.
Dominic Sullivan
If you're a shut in on you rarely go out, and live on the outskirts of LA and never venture into the city, then you could manage, but this goes for everywhere else really
But the difference is LA culture and society will quickly filter you out so dont expect to fit in into its extrovert filled social circles. Its nothing like the slow and sleepy mid sized cities and towns that most of us autists live in, where we can still operate adequately in local communities without needing to be charismatic experts at social interaction.
Fuck, i hate LA
Jackson Bailey
No, some el nino rained helped a bit, but we would need 4 of those in a row to refill our water reservoirs back up to normal levels. And they only happen like once a decade. Our water infrasture is incredibly inneffienient and dumps rain water into the ocean. We would have to tear up everything everywhere just to fix it and it would cost a fortune. Desalination plants are our best hope but they're expensive to build and run and nobody wants to pay for them so they're just hoping we start having more rain again like we used to. But we haven't had that kind of rain in decades now.
Jason Martin
The only good thing about california is that you can take a 2 hour drive and go to some amazing state parks and another 2 hour drive the opposite direction and enjoy some amazing beaches. Other than that, can't think of any other great benefits.
Julian Sanders
I'll be the judge of that, post pictures of said nazi village.
Owen Diaz
But why is that even matter since introverts don't leave the house? house - > car - > work/shop - > car - > house. Also, what about the area around Santa Monica or Southern LA/California, around Pasadena etc?
Connor Adams
LA can be literal paradise if you are the right kind of person, otherwise you will feel out of place surrounded by chad/stacy, art hoes, and rich fags.
SanFran/Seattle would probably be better for people who are sort of introverted
Juan Garcia
>all of this unstable UMADIUM 238 in here towards Los Angeles by a bunch of self admitted social retards
Ill empathize with you and understand how it can be extremely frustrating to try and mingle socially in a community that only serves the normiest of the norm and won't even acknowledge your existence if you're anything less than Chad, but if you want to find a welcoming social scene for your kind, go live in a smaller town. LA society is mercilessly competitive so your bitter failure isnt surprising.
Xavier Lee
you haven't felt the incredible social pressure to be charismatic/extroverted that exists in SoCal
an introvert can get by in the outer-regions but at that point why are you even there? Just move up to Silicon Valley where its not a sin to be awkward
Carson Allen
I guess i kind of understand, but i never understood why do people want to ''fit in''. For the most part, i just want to be left alone, and be able to talk with people on my own terms, and end the conversation whenever i want. But i also hate noise, i like quietness. Do you think LA is good for me?
Aaron Sanchez
>spics and blacks >good
Austin Sanchez
>я вeдь poдoм из бeльгии, pyccкий нe poднoй?
Jeremiah Hernandez
>hate noise >Do you think LA is good for me?
Oliver Evans
Introverted people still have to interact with others unless they're NEETS leaching off their parents. Introverted doesn't mean you don't need any social interaction whatsoever. I'm incredibly fucking lonely and hate myself. I'm still too young to have made enough money to where I can move out, and even when I do where would I go. My family is all here.
David Gonzalez
fucking no.
Benjamin Brooks
I guess it all depends on what kind of lifestyle you want. I like the convenience of a big city, and all the opportunities there are for work or other entertainment, i don't like to live in an isolated house in the middle of nowhere. I also don't understand why do people feel any pressure? If you don't like the extroverted lifestyle, who's forcing you? Whenever someone asks me to do something i don't like i just refuse. For the most part i want to be left alone, and be able to interact with the people i want in my own terms. I dont like bars or clubs, or night life. Do you think LA is a good place for that?
Asher Hill
>Seattle Why do you think Seattle is comparable to LA? I imagine what allows LA to always have something going on is that there is nice weather year around. Seattle can get pretty cold, and is wet for 9 months. Also any art spaces are now high rises, office spaces, or a Tom Douglas restaurant. It would seem to me the only similarities between LA and Seattle are liberals.
Cooper Long
As idealistic as Lala Land is I think this scene can give you a decent feeling of how the place is (I lived there for ~4 years as a normie)
Imagine trying to walk into a scene like this as a scrawny, awkward introvert, you would be straight up shunned. That's LA
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Why are you lonely? And where do you wanna move - a smaller town?
Andrew Collins
I only mentioned Seattle because its different from LA, hence better for introverts, but it still has stuff going on (especially musical/artsy stuff) just not the Californian social scene that requires extroversion
Jack Moore
>Imagine trying to walk into a scene like this as a scrawny, awkward introvert, you would be straight up shunned. That's LA
All of Brazil is like this, so for us Brazilians it doesn't sound like a big deal since we're used to this kind of social behavior.
i mean if your comfortable with this sort of stuff, can dress the part, and are in shape then LA sounds like a good place for you
Mason White
Because you are shunned here if you're a pale autist loser like me. You're humiliated and dehumanized growing up here. I only have like 1 friend I talk to. If you aren't a beach goer and gym rat here you will not be respected.
Ayden Brown
>I like the convenience of a big city, and all the opportunities there are for work or other entertainment, i don't like to live in an isolated house in the middle of nowhere
There are numerous smaller cities and towns that can satisfy these requirements, and all over the world, not just here. But since the context is USA-CANcentric, flyover treasures such as Calgary, Phoenix (its going to be 800C year round though), Charlotte, Montreal, Austin, Houston, Dallas Chicago, (its big and safe, just avoid that notorious pary) Denver, Salt Lake City and Minneapolis will provide all of the vibrance and opportunity of city life without any of the oppresive social protocol of LA and NY society.
David Rogers
>This fucking feel
Eli Anderson
None of dumbasses have ever actually been to LA, huh? You are literally just describing private parties in celebrities' Beverley Hills homes. LA is a normal fucking city, it's just a slightly more crowded and dirty shithole than most.
Jayden Hernandez
you are so ignorant lmao. yes i know about solvang, looks nothing like denmark
Adrian Moore
I live here you dipshit. That's how it is. LA itself is dirty minority infested shithole that should be avoided at all costs. The outlying white areas are materialistic normie yuppie fucks. I grew up here like I said, and hate this fucking place with every fiber of my being.
Carter Williams
I live in LA. Was born and raised here, I did spend a little time in northern California and other states so it's not like I have lived in this LA bubble my whole life.
>But how is it in Los Angeles, etc.? I always walk around Los Santos in GTAV and imagine how it is to live there. You have beaches, good weather, We DO have beaches and good weather. It's been getting hot, though. Summer time it's like 70-80 degrees (F) at the beaches and 90-110 inland. It rains frequently in the winter, but no snow.
>great food everywhere, enormous supermarkets, events, big cars, etc.
There IS great food everywhere. Don;t fall for the meme that it's all hamburgers and hot dogs and shit. I just got done with a Banh Mi sandwich and it was delicious. Everyone from literally every orifice in the world comes here and opens restaurants so you never really have an excuse not to be able to try something new as far as food.
>Events Sure, but events attract odd people.
>enormous supermarkets Same with the events.
>Big cars Definitely, I love trucks. I drive a 4x4 ford f350 super duty for work and it's a blast. Or when I drive one of the F250's the idling of the engine alone is exhilarating, the sheer power under that hood when you punch the accelerator up a steep hill is hard to beat. These things sound and feel just mean and it's fun to drive.
>If you are bored and don't know what to do, why not just hanging out at a beach in Malibu and enjoy the sunset at night.
You know, I work at the beach. I'm a government employee. I used to work in Malibu, your picture is of Zuma Beach and Point Dume and you're right. The thing is, you wanna show up during this time of year, right after summer during the winter. Because during summer EVERYONE goes to these beaches and it gets PACKED.
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Landon Phillips
My dude, i live here.
Ive lived here 24 years, what additional qualifications do you need?
Nolan Cook
Materialistic normie yuppie fucks are just normal Americans though. I don't really know how that makes life any harder for a shut in. Shut ins are gonna be failures everywhere.
Aiden Sanchez
California is one of the worst states in the U.S.
A leftist shit hole.
Gabriel Baker
bitch i lived, but the foreigners here want to know about the cool parts of LA that they see idealized in the media not the shitty suburbs.
James Martin
Silicon Valley is far more friendly to autist types so no, we wont be total shitastic failures everywhere
Levi Nelson
True, I hate America and Americans in general for that reason as well. But LA is like the poster child for that sort of thing. And I have a personal connection to SoCal.
Anthony Wright
>Houston >Montreal Dont meme the foreigners this hard please. Its just cruel.
Alexander Roberts
>the foreigners here want to know about the cool parts of LA that they see idealized in the media not the shitty suburbs
Fair enough I guess. Still though, the only way to live in the idealized parts is to be ridiculously fucking rich, which OP is most likely not.
Austin Turner
>Maybe you meet some film actors that you saw at that huge Cinema in a movie the weekend before.
So far, I've seen Pierce Brosnan, Seal, Adam Sandler, some random NBA players and the stiffler guy from the American pie movies in Malibu. Part of your picture looks like it's of "Broad beach road" which is where a lot of famous people live. I know steven spielberg lives there. I see Kevin hart form time to time at Venice beach, running. Apparently he's an avid runner and is training for a marathon.
>I imagine like it never gets boring. Unlike here in that small Bavarian village where the most exciting time is when I go online on steam and play pubg with a friend.
When I'm sitting in bumper to bumper traffic on my way home on the 405 north freeway, and it takes me an hour to get home 30 something miles away because it's so fucking expensive to live close to work in this city, i have to rent a small condominium on the outskirts of the fucking county where it's 107 degrees and damn near the desert and more and more and more and more people just keep fucking moving here and its crowded and all of this shit just overwhelms my senses. When you have a hard time finding a job because there are so many millions of people here, employers can afford to be extremely picky about who qualifies, when gangs and the police and the tension surrounds you, when you cant take out the garbage without making eye contact with at least 3 different people,when every asshole is in a rush or cutting you off or not letting you merge into a lane or you get the feeling life is just cheaper here because the average person see's thousands of faces on a daily basis, you will learn to appreciate your small bavarian town.
Jackson Morales
are northern european girls common?
Jonathan Ortiz
I would see a lot of German and Spanish tourists at Zuma beach in Malibu.
Venice beach gets everyone form all over, Since I've been transferred down there, I've heard quite a bit of French and German.