Streets by VICE: Los Angeles (Sunset Boulevard) 

That sounds kinda nice, but does it never get boring? I've always wanted to go to L.A but i dont know if i'll be able to afford it

Madam how do you not get bored of the 3 hour journey back & forth?

I want to visit now :)

+Daniel 1992 It's not that great bro trust. Born and raised in socal and the people here are so self centered and fake. Oh and don't get be started with the traffic.... Smh

+kushdaddy144 Weathers certainly nice!

+Daniel 1992 ha don't mind the haters...def should visit. I did and then stayed and lived here last 5 years ;)

+kushdaddy144 I agree

It’s a wild place

I'm on a LA doc binge rn for no reason 😂

Same

Have you actually been to Los Angeles? It's not that great

+kushdaddy144 I lived here for 26 years. You don't have to like it. LA is not for everyone

+Omar Limon don't worry Omar......Kushdaddy is just a hater that needs to move if they don't like it

+kushdaddy144 thats if you dont know your way around

roy campos lol is that bad to you guys? i mean we're all use to it lol

+Angel Valdovinos Lords of Dogtown.........RIP Jay Adams "The Original Seed".

That would be Lincoln

+Angel Valdovinos Skateboarding branched from surfing though...

+Angel Valdovinos Um she's a hipster white girl. So she only drinks wine and eats cheese. Go fig. That's why you make friends of color more culture.

+Genghis Cons the valley is hipster proof unlike gay ass venice

Cool.met up with Peter Fonda some 6 years ago. Still got his autograph. Rog. Pacific sunset records.

RareMedium she said built but im guessing he isnt a builder either

💯 THANK you

What’s the plaque then?

@@partsunknown1679 8:33. You see anything about A&M on there?

@Thecapo Jimmyjones It's because they're young and don't have any reference points to know the difference between a movie studio that was founded in the 1910s, and a record company from the 60s. Apparently the building houses the Jim Henson company now. Don't tell the reporter or she'll be crediting Chaplin with the Muppets next.

What was the band's name. Rog. Pacific sunset records

Not really. The partying get pretty boring after awhile. The bitches are all self centered just want a sugar daddy

+kushdaddy144 your right....bitches are like that here

+kushdaddy144 Theres so much more, get out of your circle

theidiotfromla like what? LA only has clubbing and nasty ass beaches. The OC is far more better and cleaner less fucking ghetto. People here don't try to act hard all the time.

+kushdaddy144 yes thank you for saying that cus its so true.!

@Jumbo Johnson I did watched it from beginning to end not one homeless person in it. No mention of skid row in LA Nothing

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T-t-t-too much soy sauce dude...

i'd like a vegan restaurant and a taco shop next to each other, similar prices

+Sangus Brule Vegans are a gang, they are growing at a rapid pace, selling more drugs and involved in more acts of violence then both the Bloods and Crips.

***** Nice essay bruh. It is a fucking joke you dumbass. Only shining light as to why people hate vegans.

+Indra Guillory umad bro cuz hes stylin on you?

Johny Hero hahaha

gonna move there soon. solely to create more traffic and nothing else.

I moved in and I was kinda broke. Nothing that can't be fixed with effort and hard work :)

I'm looking for extra work.

@@williepeppers4969 Restaurant jobs. Had three at the same time at one point. Imho you just gotta be consistent with your effort and smart with your spending, cuz it can get reaaaally addicting once you start spending on dumb stuff

+strangersound Are you sure? I'm not saying I like gentrification, but thinking about it, it would seem logical that it brings jobs, as the new residents have money to spend, so there will be more businesses. So some the older residents could find a job or a better job.

+Eric S The primary thing is you have one class/type of people coming in and in most examples, this is a higher class of people and the result is rents go up to a point where only the business class can afford them. And what jobs become available aren't that many and are the usual service/retail jobs that won't have the employees be able to afford to live in the community. Every case if different, and my comment is a generalization. Sunset Strip seems like it fared better than a lot of places. The New York (Bedford St) is a more extreme example of where gentrification completely prices out the people who live there. It's a mixed bag. It's hard to argue with investment into communities that need it, with positive effects like reduction on crime, etc. But if it brings in a professional class of people, and the normal people get priced out and can't afford to live there, that hasn't helped them. They just end up moving to an area they can afford to live in, which usually has the same issues the old neighborhood did. The investors end up desiring these areas because they can get property for pennies on the dollar and end up making a huge profit. It's not really about helping a poor neighborhood, or bringing in jobs, it's about turning a poor neighborhood into a wealthy one. So this is more like exploiting a bad situation for gain, rather than trying to do some good. Wikipedia has lengthy article detailing the pros and cons, as the displacment I'm critiquing is only one piece of the puzzle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification

+strangersound So with a job at say Starbucks (lol) isn't it possible to pay the rent for an average apartment in a place like Brooklyn? I stayed in Brooklyn (Jamaica Ave.) for a week about a year ago and I could see the gentrification myself. Around Jamaica Ave. there weren't a lot of white people, but as soon as you get to the Barclay's Center you see more and more. I'm white myself, just so that there aren't any misunderstandings about racism or such.

+Eric S If you use white people as a marker for gentrification then you are missing instances of gentrification that don't involve white people.

strangersound yep true that

How did the move go?

Good luck with that. Moving to hell might be easier.

+TheTheeggmann yup people are dumb even electric cars were invented in the 1800s they just didnt become popular back then because it was to expensive and gas power cars were easier to produce.

***** fords first car was two bics with a motor. what ford did was to be the first to mass produce a vehicle that anyone could afford from the rich to poor.

+Prashant Balhara Mercedes 35hp 1901 was probably the first recognisable car. In fairness Benz did produce 4 wheeled vehicles and maybe his biggest contribution was popularising the petrol engine. Petroleum at the time was a widely available cleaner that you could pick up at any chemist.

+IamTheEggMan Most people think Henry Ford invented the assembly line also. This idiot reporter just wanted history to fit he lame report story.

Ford was the Steve jobs of cars

Visit certain areas though.

+Jasper van Manen you're not missing much. Just like any other city...trashy, bums, dirty...only a few nice streets in LA

+Jasper van Manen I'm moving there soon. It's the spot

can i stay at your place while i visit the place?

+Jasper van Manen haha no I'll be co-renting a place with a stranger. Motel's are like $15 a night.

Good cocaine and free range hookers seems like a distant dream now...

I live there now....right on sunset and gordon....they are GONE...lol

The hookers miss you.

John Andrew yes most people outside of CA think LA is some glam place it’s not 😂

LA is the butthole of CA, and SF is somewhat of an infected cyst.

Is it at least affordable to live in the poor parts of LA? Because I've heard about the rents and it's crazy, upwards of $1.500 for a studio apartment, if I remember correctly.

La is a mexican poopy shithole

NYC being the biggest shithole

Livid Imp yeah but if you had to pick only ONE street...

my point exactly. VICE got this one WRONG.

If i had to choose a street out would be Firestone/ Manchester or Pacific/ Long beach now those streets are the real deal

Livid Imp what about Crenshaw Blvd.?

I Ka the thing she didn't and what I learned from my time working all over LA while still living in San Diego is no matter where you are, if you drive 7 minutes in any direction, you're going to be in an area that you probably don't want to be in. That and Sepulveda Blvd is really fucking long.

Shitty San diego...my hometown of SD has ppl with a strong inferiority complex.

sayjai bao great story bro.

awakeinsd born and raised in SD. Just speaking the truth bro...I could say the same about National City, Chula Vista, San Ysidro. Drive anywhere in SD, outside of North County and it resembles a 3rd world country pretty much.

I Ka :::: you're not missing anything. Horrible traffic and annoying people-

Bahahahahahaha! Exactly

Same can be said of NYC, Miami, Boston or Chicago. My guess you don't travel enough. Many have left California. To each his own.

***** well its really called south central but they'll come up with some shit

***** they're still trying but I don't see it happening. Compton looks nice, Inglewood is pretty nice but most of chrenshaw near the Slauson mall still the hood and Watts is too. Same with most of south LA. I guess they'll keep raising rent

+Brendon Sanders hopefully it does work

You never know. That's what they would have said about echo park

Nate Walker I just don't see it bro. If Watts and Compton ect is a prodominantly white area that would be something to see

Rita Kristina cause liberals

Rita Kristina its important to listen to all people. You can't just ignore criminals, in that way we can't get rid of crime

She didn't just listen, she clearly VALIDATED what he was saying more than anyone else. She said, about police cracking down on gangs, "At that point, it's just racism."

+cash monneh floow yeah sorry, i'm not listening to people who justify self-serving criminality and complain about their "persecution" all the while degrading and terrorizing their own neighbors. like i'd much rather listen to his and his friends' victims.

Why aren't there gang injunctions in white neighborhoods? There are gangs in white neighborhoods too. Why aren't there gang injunctions on the Hell's Angels (and other white biker gangs), peckerwoods and the bros? Just like cops stop Latinos or blacks for wearing Dickies, Chuck Taylors, Nike Cortez, bandanas and sports jerseys, they should stop Hell's Angels for wearing their patched up vests and %1er patches. The Peckerwoods always wear Woody Wood Pecker clothing and have Woody Wood Pecker stickers on their trucks. Bro's always have Skin Industries stickers on their trucks, and always wear Dickies shorts, knee high black socks, black sunglasses and wifebeaters.

+Joe Platt yeah those things are nasty

80s prostitute shoes

+metalsasi the ones she's wearing.

+Joe Platt be pissed off ....and own the piss

+Joe Platt Her mouth pisses me off as well, looks weird when she's done talking.

Everyone thinks Henry Ford invented cars,and it was the model T. Every idiot.

@@carlsaganlives5112 Henry Ford invented the modern automobile assembly line and affordable car.

@@xpez9694 Yessir! (ma'am?) He brought the car to the masses. In any color you want, as long as it's black. Made a few bucks along the way, too.

Thats correct. And the airplane was invented right after that in 1967. I just wish they would invent something so people could travel the oceans. Something big that can float.

Perhaps missing the point. The modern car was invented in 1886. Karl Benz... Mercedes-Benz.

She said, wait till they mug her or worse rape her.

Racism is letting the economy naturally improve a city. Heaven forbid the poor innocent street gangs go away!

how about this? read a book instead of socializing & hoodluming all day, learn something, make legit $, then buy your house. presto you dont get run out by the richy rich kids (unless you sell out for big $$$, which you will unless yr dum).

John Lawler remember everything is racism now. Ask the New York Times that is there latest greatest idea to get rid of Trump. Everything is racism.

i know what a dumb comment from her, facepalm.

hell yeah this gavacha don't know shit

Glad you're living a better life :)

Yes, I can see by your pic. Why you approve of gentrification!! If what you claim is true, then you also know that gangsters were only a small percentage of the population. And are not only people affected by this new flavor!!

I agree with you in getting rid of the Troublesome thugs. But common, that Hipster restaurant is a reflection of a fake snobby materialistic culture that millennials seem to represent.

"Hipster" "snobby" "materialistic" are adjectives which can be found anywhere. My experience continues to be a positive one.

Great right, no dodging bullets anymore. Now that I'm gone. More food places, clubs, live music, safer.... When will Pioneer Market come back? I was the last family member to leave in 1994. Can we all get a do-over?

+liverawkstar Agreed! I love the idea though.

Jail.

to prison, for starters

@King Khoda oh fuck and your White of course you are you brainwashed piece of shit

@King Khoda Ive been in the streets to, maybe not as tough as yours. and the only reason was I want to punch someone in the face and smoke weed. most of us do. So, I dont really buy that family and societal problrms excuse. some kids just wanna be bad

The IE

Carolina Nassar the city has a beautiful name indeed.

She would do great on fig lol

Well remembered. Rog. Pacific sunset records.

@@brubrulani you're vile

there are plenty of vice docs on homelessness. i think they're trying to focus on other cultural aspects here.

This is a video about Sunset Blvd. Skid Row is couple miles south, Einstein

Juan Torres don’t compare Dallas to Los Angeles!!!

I've noticed the gigantic city of Houston Texas is taking over cause it's so massive

Not anymore.....