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		teakettle42 on Jan 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Who has moved from the U.S. to Europe? > I don’t know where you are from, but LA is actually representative of large swaths of the US I actually grew up in LA, and now live in the foothills outside of Boulder on a large forest property — which is nothing like LA or Vienna. I haven’t run into many areas of the US reminiscent of LA, and the US is enormous. It can’t be painted with a single (and such a reductive) brush.

wbsss4412 on Jan 25, 2022 [–]

Land wise the US is enormous, yes. But given the topic at hand, when discussing “car-centric” and “sprawling” metro areas, LA isn’t that distinct in that regard. And there are a large percentage of Americans that live in one of them.

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