Living in the L.A. area makes you forget what a "real" city is like. The kind of place where lots of shops, restaurants, galleries are all packed together within walking or at least easy public transport range. Real cities stack the inhabitants vertically not side by side in a vast, sprawling, never ending, suburb. It's not that I don't love Long Beach and the lovely, if slightly sterile, neighborhood where we live. It's not like I'm planing to move, but, a real city offers the kind of sensory exuberance that I sometimes miss.
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