Los Angeles

See also Wikipedia's article about "Los Angeles".

Los Angeles is the largest city on the west coast, and the second largest city in the United States (after New York City). Appropriately enough, LA is the opposite to NYC in practically every way: the weather is the same year-round, public transportation is virtually non-existent by comparison, and few buildings rise above two stories tall. Like New York, however, it is very polluted and has a big immigrant population, legal or otherwise.

Much of Los Angeles is covered by ghettos and ruled by gangs. One Angelo equated Los Angeles to "the Bronx, multiplied by six." However, the area also boasts some of the most affluent neighborhoods/suburban tax havens in the world, including Beverly Hills and Newport Beach.

It has 2 main Universities, UCLA, and The University of Southern California (USC), which share a extreme rivalry. L.A. also has Caltech, but located on it's outskirts, because it engages in unnecesarily dangerous experiments.

It is rare to find someone at Columbia who is from Los Angeles who did not go to the tony Harvard-Westlake school.

The newly elected mayor of the city, Eric Garcetti, is a CC and SIPA alum, so the place has that going for it.