NYC people have an inferiority complex to one city: Los Angeles

[K.O.N.Y]

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All the other misconceptions and outright lies floating in this thread are a dub. LA has as much international gravitas as NY and you can go down the line bar for bar from popping neighborhoods and districts to street culture to landmarks to ethnic demographics to religious life to economics and literally everything, LA is right there with NY and if it trails in anything it is more due to the fact LA is a young city in comparison...

We posted the international cities index done by A institution in Chicago that ranks global cities, in basically all areas of activity-literally everything as you stated

New york ranks number 1 in the world L.A ranks number 7. There is a mutual respect in the fact that we are the two biggest cities in the united states. But NYC's comp in the things that you mentioned comes from overseas. You mentioned economics- Nyc has a gdp as big or bigger than L.A's and Chicagos combined, for example

L.A is young. But new york is no where as old as london,paris, tokyo etc. NYC is outdoing cities thousands of years older

 

[murksiderock]

We posted the international cities index done by A institution in Chicago that ranks global cities, in basically all areas of activity-literally everything as you stated

New york ranks number 1 in the world L.A ranks number 7. There is a mutual respect in the fact that we are the two biggest cities in the united states. But NYC's comp in the things that you mentioned comes from overseas. You mentioned economics- Nyc has a gdp as big or bigger than L.A's and Chicagos combined, for example

L.A is young. But new york is no where as old as london,paris, tokyo etc. NYC is outdoing cities thousands of years older

Good points, though more context has to be provided:

•the fact that GDP NY is larger than both LA and Chi combined says more about Chicago than it says about LA. GDP LA is still 60% of NY's by itself, and per the latest numbers available (2018 which highlighted 2010-18), GDP LA is growing 11% faster than GDP NY in the 2010s...

GDP is heavily weighted on corporate base and the fact that NY is a few hundred years older is the reason that it has a higher concentration if corporate headquarters. If the nation got a reset to start from scratch today, in 2020, half the HQs would be in LA, but of course many of the old money/big money powers are damn near as old as LA itself, so it makes sense. As it is, LA still has the second highest level of corporate and media presence, that's nothing to sneeze at given all the cities it has leapfrogged in the last century that had a head start on concentrating power, wealth, and influence...

So LA has the faster growing economy and it can't go unmentioned that in every metric across the board, LA, which was just entering the radar as a midsize city in 1900, has closed the gap between it and NY in 12 consecutive decades. Economically sure NY has a sizable lead, but its lead has shrunken vs LA every era and no other city in the entire history of the US has ever been as close to NY as LA has been the last 30-35 years, unless you want to count the 1700s when Philly and Boston were more or less equals...

•there are multiple studies that grade cities and take everything into account. LA isn't going to be ahead of NY in any but again, the fact that LA is universally recognized as the US #2 and a Top 5-10 global city in the entire planet, to me that says more about other cities and how LA has surpassed them, than it says about LA trailing NY...

•it's disingenuous to say NY has no competition from LA and its only competition is from overseas. It isn't true and is disproved across a variety of sectors in contemporary American life from education reputation to government pull to tourism to anything else...

We won't be here to see it, but it will be very interesting to see where NY and LA stand next to each other in 2120. NY has the benefit of size and age working in its favor more than anything at this point, and while I agree that NY overall is a step ahead of LA, there is no massive gap by any stretch of the imagination. Also the fact that they are on opposite coasts helps both, as LA has sway and influence over a wide geographic area and population base just like NY....

There's no type of shopping or type of food or type of entertainment or type of outdoor activity that can be seen or done in NY, that can't be done in LA. And that's the lived experience to most people daily lives, and the fact that LA is the only city in the US and one of only a handful in the world that can say that vs NY, speaks volumes on how the two cities are closer in stature than not...

 

[murksiderock]

people warn me/when you're on top there's envy*

Lmao yall stay saying this but LA is the most misunderstood and most hated on city of the two on here. The jokes and misconceptions and downright lies never stop about LA, the difference is the LA posters don't do the crying and complaining and whining about it the NY posters do (as a collective, obviously everybody don't be throwing tantrums)...

 

[Blessings]

Y'all notice its always clowns not from NY always making threads about NY.
On a global scale and within the black community...NY is usually compared to London(black consciousness, music, art, fashion, slang, etc)

LA doesn't even feel like a black city

 

[Blessings]

Where is this inferiority complex you're talking about?

This is how I know nikkas on this site never been to NY or even met someone from NY

We BRAG about vacationing in LA, Miami, and Atlanta.

We got nikkas out here that are fans of the Lakers.

How is that an inferiority complex? Sounds more like we're secure about ourselves.

Tell me when have you ever seen an LA nikka big up NY or anything NY related?

Meanwhile, we always big up other cities.

The truth is that you nikkas have an inferiority complex towards us. Literally everything out of your mouths about NY is negative.

FACTS...thecoli's obsession with NY is weird

 

[010101]

Lmao yall stay saying this but LA is the most misunderstood and most hated on city of the two on here. The jokes and misconceptions and downright lies never stop about LA, the difference is the LA posters don't do the crying and complaining and whining about it the NY posters do (as a collective, obviously everybody don't be throwing tantrums)...

you can tally up all the threads popping at la & other locations nyc still the most hated

anybody that loves their hometown is gonna speak up for it

nyc posters know for a fact this is a daily thing with ot weirdos

& it's unprovoked to add to it we never fire first

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[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Lmao yall stay saying this but LA is the most misunderstood and most hated on city of the two on here. The jokes and misconceptions and downright lies never stop about LA, the difference is the LA posters don't do the crying and complaining and whining about it the NY posters do (as a collective, obviously everybody don't be throwing tantrums)...

Shut up- so damn annoying and preachy for no reason. Nobody from New York is thinking about LA shyt. Sound retahded- who the wakes up comparing themselves to another city. no one gives a shyt - people are up this way living their lives and minding our business in our own city. This thread wasn’t created by anyone from New York. 90% of the threads are created about us, for us, by THEM. You give us attention. Jealous ones envying. Keep being an observer- all you’re going to do is talk anyway. Dafuq are you contributing to your own city besides writing paragraphs about ours?

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Good points, though more context has to be provided:

•the fact that GDP NY is larger than both LA and Chi combined says more about Chicago than it says about LA. GDP LA is still 60% of NY's by itself, and per the latest numbers available (2018 which highlighted 2010-18), GDP LA is growing 11% faster than GDP NY in the 2010s...

I could have just left it at "bigger than LA" the point i was trying to make was that la and chi town are number 2 and 3 respectively. If within that coupling- chicago bares a burden, i would argue that's beside the point


GDP is heavily weighted on corporate base and the fact that NY is a few hundred years older is the reason that it has a higher concentration if corporate headquarters. If the nation got a reset to start from scratch today, in 2020, half the HQs would be in LA, but of course many of the old money/big money powers are damn near as old as LA itself, so it makes sense. As it is, LA still has the second highest level of corporate and media presence, that's nothing to sneeze at given all the cities it has leapfrogged in the last century that had a head start on concentrating power, wealth, and influence...
Im not sure where the location of headquarters has to do with gross domestic product. Chicago dallas and houston have more than LA but not a bigger city economy
LA is the staple of the west going into the pacific a company,however old, would and could relocate if need be im not sure age has much to do with it. Again NYC can play this game with far older cities globally. Whatever the premier city of the west coast was to be, was bound to leap frog anything in middle america. Chicago has the age, the great lakes and dominance over the midwest. LA has the other end of the country, the big state of california-to include tucked away from the clutter of the east coast, the west and the pacific.
So LA has the faster growing economy and it can't go unmentioned that in every metric across the board, LA, which was just entering the radar as a midsize city in 1900, has closed the gap between it and NY in 12 consecutive decades. Economically sure NY has a sizable lead, but its lead has shrunken vs LA every era and no other city in the entire history of the US has ever been as close to NY as LA has been the last 30-35 years, unless you want to count the 1700s when Philly and Boston were more or less equals...
As of having the faster growing economy in every metric- im not sure what source your using to project that. The global cities index doesn't portray this. For instance im not sure if LA is a bigger tech hub than nyc at this point, nor banking


•there are multiple studies that grade cities and take everything into account. LA isn't going to be ahead of NY in any but again, the fact that LA is universally recognized as the US #2 and a Top 5-10 global city in the entire planet, to me that says more about other cities and how LA has surpassed them, than it says about LA trailing NY...
I agree. I dont see LA as being number 2 to new york per se
•it's disingenuous to say NY has no competition from LA and its only competition is from overseas. It isn't true and is disproved across a variety of sectors in contemporary American life from education reputation to government pull to tourism to anything else...
Domestic for sure. NYC is not a primate city, it shares resources with multiple city's on the east coast alone. But you said it held JUST AS MUCH GRAVITAS which is false
We won't be here to see it, but it will be very interesting to see where NY and LA stand next to each other in 2120. NY has the benefit of size and age working in its favor more than anything at this point, and while I agree that NY overall is a step ahead of LA, there is no massive gap by any stretch of the imagination. Also the fact that they are on opposite coasts helps both, as LA has sway and influence over a wide geographic area and population base just like NY....
Agreed as stated above
There's no type of shopping or type of food or type of entertainment or type of outdoor activity that can be seen or done in NY, that can't be done in LA. And that's the lived experience to most people daily lives, and the fact that LA is the only city in the US and one of only a handful in the world that can say that vs NY, speaks volumes on how the two cities are closer in stature than not...

My response in the bolded^

 

[murksiderock]

Y'all notice its always clowns not from NY always making threads about NY.
On a global scale and within the black community...NY is usually compared to London(black consciousness, music, art, fashion, slang, etc)

LA doesn't even feel like a black city

Bro keep it a buck, let's not pretend NY is a "black city" either. The areas where black people dominate in both cities are comparable aesthetically...

NY has more of those areas both because it's the larger city, and it has the historical and geographical benefit of being closer to the heart of Black America (the Southeast). Those are factors outside of LA's control...

But let's kill this myth that NY is a chocolate city or something, neither are. NY's black population in the 2010s declined at a rate 45% faster than LA's; from 2010-2018 NY has lost 12.68% of its black population while growing 13.9% in Asians and 6.99% in Latinos. White NYers are down 1.71% in the same stretch, but this still means Black NY is declining 7½ times faster than white NY...

Unless something reverses and blacks not only start moving back to The Boroughs but also start outgrowing Asians, Asians will have a larger population in 2030. Seeing as Latinos and cacs already have numbers on blacks in NY, it will be interesting to hear the justifications if black NYers when all the major racial groups outnumber blacks; as it is, NY will be less than 20% black by 2022, all these jokes about "no black people" gonna start looking real funny when the rabbit has the gun...

And yall gotta stop minimizing Black LA as if it isn't influential within our larger culture, and on American society has certainly been more impactful than Black London. People compare NY to London, yet yall are using that as a false impetus as if LA isn't generally and broadly compared to London as well. Certainly talking consciousness, music, art, and slang, you used some if the worst examples to claim LA isn't comparable to NY, and/or that London is more comparable lmao...

 

[itsyoung!!]

Nah on a global scale NYC is the superior city by a large margin

Cats in London, Japan, Africa, Australia etc dont give a flying fukk about LA

New York State (NYC and all surrounding cities) peak is around 65 million total tourist visitors in a year (domestic and international)

California State peak is around 270 million total tourist visitors in a year (domestic and international)

where do you think those 270 million tourists go LA or the bay

you hear about people driving cross country to California never to New York who driving from Texas to New york thats a common occurrence here


this man said Japan

New York State has 1.2 million asians
California has 7 million asians

where do you think Asians flying into, especially Japan since Hawaii is on west coast

Australia you do know the flight from Australia to California is 6 hours less than to NYC, where do you think they flying too



mafukkas really retarded when they log into the coli

We posted the international cities index done by A institution in Chicago that ranks global cities, in basically all areas of activity-literally everything as you stated

New york ranks number 1 in the world L.A ranks number 7. There is a mutual respect in the fact that we are the two biggest cities in the united states. But NYC's comp in the things that you mentioned comes from overseas. You mentioned economics- Nyc has a gdp as big or bigger than L.A's and Chicagos combined, for example

L.A is young. But new york is no where as old as london,paris, tokyo etc. NYC is outdoing cities thousands of years older

you couldnt be more wrong


the difference between LA and NYC tourism is that people fly to JFK or wherever and mainly only go to NYC.. they aint going to buffalo or some shyt.. so comparing NYC(9 million people) to LA (3.5 million people) is unfair.. because people can fly into Long Beach or Burbank and spend 2-3 days in LA and spend 2-3 days in San Diego..

people drive or fly to San Diego, LA, SF, Oakland, Sacramento and travel north or south california

NYC always tryna lump they unique city infrastructure into total #'s when comparing to single cities that dont have the same unique set up (Burroughs)

270 million people a year visit California
65 million people a year visit New York State

it aint even comparable

 

[murksiderock]

you can tally up all the threads popping at la & other locations nyc still the most hated

anybody that loves their hometown is gonna speak up for it

nyc posters know for a fact this is a daily thing with ot weirdos

& it's unprovoked to add to it we never fire first

*

Well I shoulda said the hate for NY doesn't come from LA posters, yall know this. One LA poster takes shots at NY every once in awhile and yall act like its everyone...

NY might get more hate overall but it don't be from The Coast...

 

[K.O.N.Y]

I think comparing the two is missing the point in a'lot of instances

NYC is not a superior LA
La is not an inferior new york

The two cities are so vastly different that it depends on lifestyle- what lifestyle do you want not which is better

ny is a lifestyle
la is a lifestyle

 

[010101]

Well I shoulda said the hate for NY doesn't come from LA posters, yall know this. One LA poster takes shots at NY every once in awhile and yall act like its everyone...

NY might get more hate overall but it don't be from The Coast...

i never implied it was

la nikkas don't think like that

if you touch both coasts you know the truth

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[Blessings]

Bro keep it a buck, let's not pretend NY is a "black city" either. The areas where black people dominate in both cities are comparable aesthetically...

NY has more of those areas both because it's the larger city, and it has the historical and geographical benefit of being closer to the heart of Black America (the Southeast). Those are factors outside of LA's control...

But let's kill this myth that NY is a chocolate city or something, neither are. NY's black population in the 2010s declined at a rate 45% faster than LA's; from 2010-2018 NY has lost 12.68% of its black population while growing 13.9% in Asians and 6.99% in Latinos. White NYers are down 1.71% in the same stretch, but this still means Black NY is declining 7½ times faster than white NY...

Unless something reverses and blacks not only start moving back to The Boroughs but also start outgrowing Asians, Asians will have a larger population in 2030. Seeing as Latinos and cacs already have numbers on blacks in NY, it will be interesting to hear the justifications if black NYers when all the major racial groups outnumber blacks; as it is, NY will be less than 20% black by 2022, all these jokes about "no black people" gonna start looking real funny when the rabbit has the gun...

And yall gotta stop minimizing Black LA as if it isn't influential within our larger culture, and on American society has certainly been more impactful than Black London. People compare NY to London, yet yall are using that as a false impetus as if LA isn't generally and broadly compared to London as well. Certainly talking consciousness, music, art, and slang, you used some if the worst examples to claim LA isn't comparable to NY, and/or that London is more comparable lmao...

Despite gentrification black neighborhoods are still majority black. You mentioned Black America from the Southeast(Caribbeans/Africans take NY to another level from the birth of hip-hop, dancehall/passa-passa/ and afrobeats)

 

[murksiderock]

Despite gentrification black neighborhoods are still majority black. You mentioned Black America from the Southeast(Caribbeans/Africans take NY to another level from the birth of hip-hop, dancehall/passa-passa/ and afrobeats)

For sure, I'm just clarifying that there are still majority black neighborhoods in LA, too...

I know NY has a large Carib and African population too, I guess my point is Black Americans are still the majority of Black NY and Black NY's foundation, and Caribs largely assimilate to Black American culture, not the other way around. So it's important to point out that NY's proximity to the cultural and physical heart of Black America is a huge advantage in how its black population got so large I'm the first place, that's not something LA could replicate...