Quote Originally Posted by noTAGlove View Post
Go to California for the beautiful scenery. I swerve the cities. San Fran is skanky, LA is a car ridden sprawl, except Griffith observatory and Getty museum which I liked. Downtown San Diego has a gimmicky Gaslamp district of a few blocks and beyond that it is also skanky.

Homelessness and tent cities in the major cities is dreadful, and only a few blocks, and sometimes less from some of the tourist hotspots.
This sums it up for me too. I was always keen to visit LA because of the Hollywood movies I'd watched growing up. I enjoyed Griffith Observatory but the rest was disgusting and the main memory that sticks out is the combination smell of urine/weed. I'd be in no rush to go back!