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Why Los Angeles wasn't/isn't a powerhouse?
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12/17/14 01:54 PM
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ItalianIrishMix
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I was just looking up GDP for various cities in America and saw that the amount of economic activity in L.A. is almost as much as Chicago and Philadelphia, put together!
Now I know that GDP isn't the best gauge for the underworld BUT, I do think they go hand in hand.
NY $1,358,000,000,000 L.A. $765,000,000,000 Chicago $571,000,000,000 Philly $364,000,000,000
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Re: Why Los Angeles wasn't/isn't a powerhouse?
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12/17/14 08:03 PM
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I don't think a lot of Italians migrated there in the wave of Italian immigration in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. I don't think LA had Italian neighborhoods the way NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, or Boston had. That would be my guess. By way of proximity, the nearest destination for Italian immigrants would have been San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood, which actually predated Ellis Island as a destination for Italian immigrants by some time. Anyway, San Francisco is still a beautiful and very livable city. Los Angeles is a Mexican suburb.
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Re: Why Los Angeles wasn't/isn't a powerhouse?
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12/18/14 04:41 PM
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There never was an extreme concentration of italians in LA- unlike NY, Philly, Jersey or Chicago.
And well, today, as Pizza said its better thought of as part of mexico. You got a mexican guy that failed the bar 3 times (and never passed) as the mayor for a decade.
SF is a beautiful city and among my favorite to visit, but to live there you better be a multi-millionaire and willing to deal with all the weird shit that comes out of the place. I'm neither.
Last edited by LittleNicky; 12/18/14 04:42 PM.
Should probably ask Mr. Kierney. I guess if you're Italian, you should be in prison. I've read the RICO Act, and I can tell you it's more appropriate... for some of those guys over in Washington than it is for me or any of my fellas here
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Re: Why Los Angeles wasn't/isn't a powerhouse?
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12/21/14 01:53 PM
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La is a shithole. I'm born and raised here... The downtown area is all mexican, then there is the chinese who run the whole garmet center with fucking tons of bootleg everything, clothing,shoes,designer bags,jewelry,perfumes, ect.. They make a killing off selling that garbage in bulk.. All of south la, south of downtown is all blacks, south central la is fucking down right disgusting shit hole.. The hipsters are pretty much taking over everywhere..the whole area surrounding dodger stadium is all hipsters, echo park, silverlake, los feliz,ect.. As far as crime goes honestly.. The mexicans run the street drug trade out of boyle heights/ east la. Blacks and mexicans run it it south central.. Chinatown they got all the bootleg shit I talked about earlier plus a ton of gambling dens and warehouse weed grow operations, but they stick to their own kind heavily.. Personally I can tell you besides the typical mexican connected cartel drug pushers, the people who make the real money illegally are the armenians and other middle easterners (lebanese,syrian,persian) they are masters of all sorts of fraud from medicaid-medicare, to typical credit/debit card, stolen identities, any fake documents you could ever need (I used to get all my fake employment/pay stubs ect. From them to rent apartments/ cars). The amount of fraud they're capable of is staggering. They also love to gamble, mostly on backgammon. I've seen 1 game where 150k was on the line, in cash. Every hookah lounge in the valley is a front for their fraud.. They sit there all day smoking that shit and drinking tea with their 100k cars parked out front.. They also are huge in the pharmaceutical game. Can literally get everything from painkillers and benzos to steroids and viagra and cialis.. I was shocked when I learned how huge the black market demand for viagra and cialis was.. From a young crowd also. Fucking strange. Well that was my shitty rant about los angeles.. The city itself and the surrounding areas are dogshit. Hollywood included.. The more north west the better.. Some really really nice suburbs 20mins north of la.. Calabasas where pretty much every celebrity lives from the kardashians to drake, justin bieber, pretty much everyone. Then there's malibu and westlake village. Ha the last boss of the la family lived in westlake before he died a couple years ago.
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