Driving Los Angeles 8K HDR Dolby Vision - Downtown LA to Santa Monica (Los Santos) Part II
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Date: 2023-12-16
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-wpbarchitect1800
5: 00 Skid Row is a level of poverty and deprivation most residents of the First World would find utterly beyond belief. The fact that $2500 tiny, cheaply constructed new one BR (or even studio) apartments are just a few blocks north adds to the surreal quality of it all. Lived in LA for 23 years (my entire adult life up until 2017) and like almost all Angelenos I have a love/hate relationship with it which up until about 2015 was skewed well toward love. Then it really started to slide, and all the negatives (homelessness, crime, tagging, trash, awful ugly new development etc) started going parabolic. Was recently back and it was truly depressing. Downtown with all those horrible apartment towers in South Park looks totally anonymous now, it could be Houston. The fact that the tallest ones sit topped off but unfinished and abandoned (Oceanwide Towers) is very symbolic. The same with all the totally bland and out0of-place massive apartment developments along main boulevards (most with vacant ground floor retail) LA doesn't look at all like LA anymore. You could be anywhere. The city has always been a very tense and anxious place but it feels off the charts now, everyone seems so angry, stressed out and miserable. As always if you have enough money you can live and incredible lifestyle there, anything money can buy is available (literally ANYTHING) and you can live in the hills with some of the most incredible views on earth, or live in the flats of Beverly Hills or other Westside enclaves with a gate and probably arrned security and live like a feudal lord. But it's a gilded cage. Most people I know have left, it just became too much for them. When you have a million $ plus house and a family and a homeless camp springs up across the street or you start seeing used needles on your sidewalk (just happened to a good friend of mine in a formerly great part of Studio City) it's time to go. I'll always have a place in my heart for LA but I'm very happy to be out. It's sad to see my hometown in this state.
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5: 00 Skid Row is a level of poverty and deprivation most residents of the First World would find utterly beyond belief. The fact that $2500 tiny, cheaply constructed new one BR (or even studio) apartments are just a few blocks north adds to the surreal quality of it all. Lived in LA for 23 years (my entire adult life up until 2017) and like almost all Angelenos I have a love/hate relationship with it which up until about 2015 was skewed well toward love. Then it really started to slide, and all the negatives (homelessness, crime, tagging, trash, awful ugly new development etc) started going parabolic. Was recently back and it was truly depressing. Downtown with all those horrible apartment towers in South Park looks totally anonymous now, it could be Houston. The fact that the tallest ones sit topped off but unfinished and abandoned (Oceanwide Towers) is very symbolic. The same with all the totally bland and out0of-place massive apartment developments along main boulevards (most with vacant ground floor retail) LA doesn't look at all like LA anymore. You could be anywhere. The city has always been a very tense and anxious place but it feels off the charts now, everyone seems so angry, stressed out and miserable. As always if you have enough money you can live and incredible lifestyle there, anything money can buy is available (literally ANYTHING) and you can live in the hills with some of the most incredible views on earth, or live in the flats of Beverly Hills or other Westside enclaves with a gate and probably arrned security and live like a feudal lord. But it's a gilded cage. Most people I know have left, it just became too much for them. When you have a million $ plus house and a family and a homeless camp springs up across the street or you start seeing used needles on your sidewalk (just happened to a good friend of mine in a formerly great part of Studio City) it's time to go. I'll always have a place in my heart for LA but I'm very happy to be out. It's sad to see my hometown in this state.
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-razvoiculescu
I'm from Europe, Romania, and I'm amazed by the very low speed that they're driving even when the streets are empty. Are you guys using gears higher than 2? It seems to me that you're driving with 20-30 km/hour (don't know exact value in miles/hour. Also, I can't get why the traffic lights aren't sincronized from the beginning to the end of the street.
Anyway, great vid! I would love to visit LA sometime.
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I'm from Europe, Romania, and I'm amazed by the very low speed that they're driving even when the streets are empty. Are you guys using gears higher than 2? It seems to me that you're driving with 20-30 km/hour (don't know exact value in miles/hour. Also, I can't get why the traffic lights aren't sincronized from the beginning to the end of the street.
Anyway, great vid! I would love to visit LA sometime.
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usa-by-car
I'm watching this from Germany right now and I find the power cables within the city that run above ground extremely regressive. It looks like crap. It's also dangerous. What if during a storm such a mast falls over. Here in Germany, all the power cables are underground.
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I'm watching this from Germany right now and I find the power cables within the city that run above ground extremely regressive. It looks like crap. It's also dangerous. What if during a storm such a mast falls over. Here in Germany, all the power cables are underground.
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-dmfamzo
Been to the states thrice, all trips on the east coast, I know the next one will be for the west coast, but honestly surprised to see so many homeless people in downtown LA.
The contrast between the image of a place and its harsh realities.
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Been to the states thrice, all trips on the east coast, I know the next one will be for the west coast, but honestly surprised to see so many homeless people in downtown LA.
The contrast between the image of a place and its harsh realities.
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-bertbertsen3285
After 8 minutes I am shocked by the many tents and the garbage. That's L. A? City of Angels, Hollwood, Glamor, Stars and Starlets? But the traffic later is same like in Munich with only 1, 5 Mio People- Greetings from Germany
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After 8 minutes I am shocked by the many tents and the garbage. That's L. A? City of Angels, Hollwood, Glamor, Stars and Starlets? But the traffic later is same like in Munich with only 1, 5 Mio People- Greetings from Germany
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-ourtvchannel
Why no reply to what camera did you use? Why tell people about your waterproof camera bag and give no answer to multiple peoples' questions about the camera? So one more time, what camera did you use? It's an interesting video.
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Why no reply to what camera did you use? Why tell people about your waterproof camera bag and give no answer to multiple peoples' questions about the camera? So one more time, what camera did you use? It's an interesting video.
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-knightrainer6695
Really impressive to look at. I liked Santa Monica best. So many fat cars and you can't drive faster than 35. In Germany, there are still many country roads between the villages or motorways. Thank you very much. -
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Really impressive to look at. I liked Santa Monica best. So many fat cars and you can't drive faster than 35. In Germany, there are still many country roads between the villages or motorways. Thank you very much. -
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-jarrgeez
don't be fooled, most of LA is infested with homeless and crazy people, LA can be a lot of fun if you have a lot of money, otherwise you work all day and all you want to do on your free time is sleep.
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don't be fooled, most of LA is infested with homeless and crazy people, LA can be a lot of fun if you have a lot of money, otherwise you work all day and all you want to do on your free time is sleep.
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usa-by-car
What a shit hole city, even the very famous rodeo drive can't hold a candle to the average European -Fancy street-. And all those tents in the outskirts, laughable and sad at the same time.
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What a shit hole city, even the very famous rodeo drive can't hold a candle to the average European -Fancy street-. And all those tents in the outskirts, laughable and sad at the same time.
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-Neezabja
The number of tents, homeless and trash on the streets was shocking and definitely not what I was expecting from a renowned city in a developed nation.
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The number of tents, homeless and trash on the streets was shocking and definitely not what I was expecting from a renowned city in a developed nation.
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-Nichtswert
We are such loosers at germany with our little houses and structures.
America lives the greatest life. Good bless america!
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We are such loosers at germany with our little houses and structures.
America lives the greatest life. Good bless america!
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-MisanthropicIX
Nothing relaxes me like a drive through streets full of homeless people in tents.
Do San Fransico next plz.
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Nothing relaxes me like a drive through streets full of homeless people in tents.
Do San Fransico next plz.
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