you can say what you want about Los Angeles, but one thing is true. the amount of asphalt, roads and highways do allow you to go anyplace in a reasonable amount of time. Compared to the Netherlands, where a trip from Rotterdam to Amsterdam (about 55 miles) feels like an eternity, driving around in LA feels like a short ride.
You never leave the city. driving around for 3 hours and only seeing houses, parking garages and strip malls is possible. and then you haven't seen the same place twice.
another admirable feature of LA is the possibility, thanks to all that asphalt, to go from a crazy urban wasteland to rugged, untouched nature. a few months ago I had a conversation with a guy that had lived in Los Angeles for more than ten years, and lives in Amsterdam now. we agreed on the nice things of Amsterdam, but what he really liked LA for was exactly this almost schizophrenic quality of the city of angels.
man has tried to civilize and 'asphaltize' Los Angeles for more than two hundred years, but places where he has failed to do so are plentiful. and finally, man has realized that these places need to be cherished, be cleaned and be left alone. don't see it as a defeat, see it as a reckoning of our own boundaries.
can you imagine?
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