[otisfunkmeyer]

many people have a 15-year old view of Los Angeles, and downtown in particular.

LA is one of the (imo the) great cities of the future and will be the biggest benefactor of the transition to self-driving cars and multi-modal transport, when it's collection-of-villages-like-nature will flourish.

The city will be like living in many cities all at the same time that you can easily shuttle between (Long Beach, Pasadena, Venice, Santa Monica, Malibu, Downtown, Burbank, Noho, Manhattan Beach, Topanga, mid-Wilshire, Koreatown, Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Thaitown, Hollywood, etc.) The list goes on and on.

I know of no other place where each "neighborhood" feels as though it is its own city. Right now, due to the nature of transportation, this has MAJOR downsides. In the future, these will be massively mitigated and LA will become perhaps the most desirable place in the world to live.

To add one more example, LA has the best weather of any of the world's major cities. As the global population becomes increasingly mobile, weather will play a larger and larger factor of where people choose to settle.

On top of this, there is major investment in making sure LA sustains its role as the world entertainment capital as entertainment shifts to VR and is increasingly tech-based.

LA is also at the very forefront of the global shift toward increasingly healthy living. It's a city that may as well run on green juice. While at the moment this is trendy and cliche, soon it will be just how more and more people around the world eat. And much of this is invented and perfected in LA and SoCal in general.

LA is amazing. QED.

[adventured]

The LA nightlife has already seen a huge benefit from the arrival of Uber. Self-driving electric vehicles will do remarkable things to transform it further, including reduce air pollution and traffic congestion. An exciting future indeed.

[beachstartup]

i will also add that the LA area (I include 'cities' such as SM and BH and WH) has the fastest growing (and best, in my opinion) restaurant and bar scene in the entire world right now.

someone else mentioned it, but it's because of uber. since it showed up, people are eating and drinking (safely) much more.