nyc vs la (a woman's perspective)

[Music] welcome to my office oh first of all i cut my bangs if you guys follow me on tik tok you'd know but they always part in the center we're just gonna let them part today today we're talking about new york versus los angeles i used to live in los angeles and i'm currently in new york so let's get into it yeah first things first i'm going to start off with everybody's most most important criteria that's right you guessed it food i know i know food is is crucial food is like number one for everybody right yes okay um so anyways i'm going to have to hand this category to new york i know i know okay there's a lot of controversy here but let me tell you what i think new york is like a melting pot of all these different cultures i just feel like the food here is a lot more authentic and it is just a lot tastier i got in trouble for this on tick tock but i heard that the water here is you know supposedly like amazing there's something in my eye and that that's why the food tastes better because as you're making like dough for like pizza or pastas or whatever you're using water and since the water is so good hence the food and the bagels and the pizzas are just so amazing the one thing though that i do think la does better than new york when it comes to food is vegan food not to say there's no vegan options in new york you could definitely live here as a vegan but but la definitely takes the cake like when it comes down to like specialty bougie hyper healthy vegan options there's just way more to choose from and there's just way more variety and like little bougie vegan spots in in los angeles that i do not see here that's the one thing i do miss um i miss like all the juice bars that we had i haven't really seen any good juice bars or like acai bowl places here they all just seem like the generic chain uh brands which i don't really like if you want to grow a little fatty new york is definitely the place for you so next up on the list another very important thing that i know everybody wants to know is rent slash living expenses alright so here i go new york city is more expensive um it just it is what it is there's no there's no going around it there's no finding a cheaper spot so it's new york rent is crazy expensive i got super lucky as you can see like this is pretty spacious this is my living room i have a kitchen over there and a actual bedroom down there so all of this in new york city i'm paying 17.50 and i did a video on it right here somewhere i'm gonna link it but that this is a steal like this doesn't exist anymore i came at the end of covid deals and i got this this is a deal like if i move out today they're raising the rent by like 500 so in la you can find a studio for like 1200 um it's gonna be not not a very nice place possibly but it's doable it may not be like the cutest spot but it exists here absolutely not the studios start at two grand and they are literally like trash studios like mold in the bathroom uh roaches um just like smelly hallways so since we're on the topic of money i'm going to go into living expenses me personally i'm pretty good at budgeting i i'm not like an impulse buyer so for me uh i think like wherever i live doesn't really matter because like i know how to control myself but i feel like for a lot of people at least you know me hanging out with friends like a lot of my friends just like buy random you know and i think new york is is more expensive because it's more tempting to constantly be purchasing things because you're always walking around i step out of my house and there's like a jillion places to eat there's just like like little carts on the street and there's like all these cute little shops and boutiques and like in new york you're generally walking all day long right it's really hard to be disciplined so i think that's where things get expensive if you want to come to new york and try all this goodie all these goodies that they have it's it's hard so that was again on food damn i'm just a fatty okay i'm sorry this is like all based off of food like that's how i make my decisions apparently so another thing you want to think about when it comes to expenses is transportation obviously in la you really can't do it without a car i'm sorry i've done it and it's not i mean i had fun i bought a bike and i biked around but you know i'm like you gotta really you gotta be athletic like i was like i was going to the grocery store i had a big huge backpack and i was like biking all my groceries back home you know like you got to be a certain type of person to do that okay not everyone is going to do that la you definitely need a car what comes with a car obviously a payment insurance gas all that sitting in traffic in la especially parking parking is usually not free it's also really easy to get a ticket and in new york obviously you don't have those extra expenses but the way i look at it it still kind of balances out because whatever i wasn't paying on my car now i'm paying for rent so in the end it kind of still levels out i think it's just a matter of like convenience and how you like to move another thing for example like you want to go out at night you're wearing heels like it's fine like i'm going to drive and then park and then i'll be right there you know it's okay that i'm wearing heels but in new york if i want to go downtown what am i going to walk five blocks to the metro in my heels then i'm going to get in the nasty ass metro open toe shoes and then get out the metro and then have to walk to the bar another x amount of blocks like bro i'm not trying to do that another expense here because obviously if we do have seasons is going to be closed and you don't have to splurge and go crazy literally i had two pairs of pants and two coats and that was me for like three months so next on my list we have weather and i put slash fashion because i do really think these go hand in hand and this is my favorite thing about new york city so far is the fashion and not only just the fashion but the fact that i feel i feel invincible here like i feel like i can wear whatever i want and like i no one can say to me like even if i look crazy nobody can say to me because everybody here i feel like they express their fashion and they can wear crazy things and it's just so accepted and normal here it's just one season in la everyone all year long it's just like oh shorts and a t-shirt like it's socal vibes you know it's like bum beach socal vibes so i feel like if you're wearing something more out there people are gonna be like why why are you like you're doing the most like it's not that serious you know what i mean like we're more laid back over there but in new york people really like they take fashion seriously sometimes i put stuff together i'm like i don't know if this goes like i but the fact that i'm here in this city it just makes me feel okay about it it makes me feel like i can wear whatever i want and no one's going to say and if anything they're just going to look at me and be like oh cool yeah like she looks fashionable like even if it looks crazy or something another thing about that i want to say about la fashion is i feel like la fashion is more so all about sexiness i know everybody knows this but like hollywood plastic surgery it's just all about how you look and i feel like that goes into the fashion what can i wear to show off my titties or like what can i wear that's my ass can look fat in or you know and i'm like that's not really fashion you know i feel like you don't really tap into your own style okay and that brings me to my next point which here i have people and culture i really don't like la culture i feel like la culture is just all about sexiness and it's all about money and who you know it's unfortunate in it and it really gets to you like i came into la i'm i'm super confident but like a few years down the line of living in la even i was starting to get really just self-conscious about just myself like i was like oh maybe i do need a boob job you know i was i was really like looking into getting a boob job i was looking into you know like oh maybe yeah some lip fillers everyone is doing it everyone around you it looks like that and it's really hard to be a woman there and to look around and just not want to do that for yourself because you just feel like oh my god this is what i have to be and you don't realize that you're getting sucked into it and that's the culture of la unfortunately it is la is literally you're living in instagram land like you're literally living in your instagram feed that's los angeles all the instagramers live there all the youtubers live there and it that's just what you're constantly around when you go out in new york so far it's been a fresher a fresher breath air it's been a breath of fresh air and everyone says this is a lot more cold in new york but it yes it is but i don't look at it as like a negative way i look at it as people are just more straight up and they're not doing it in a from a cold place they're not like doing it because they dislike you or they hate you they're just like moving and they're just straight up like okay what do you want in la when you go to a restaurant or when you go to i don't know just anywhere where you're interacting with someone like the receptionist or anything people are just so but it's like hi oh how was your day oh what can i help you with today like that's how they treat you they treat you very nice but in new york not that they don't treat you nice they're just gonna be like what do you need and i just feel like some people could take it personally like they could feel like people are being mean or harsh to them i don't i don't mind it i'm not a softie you know i could take it it's actually funny to me because like i compare the two and i'm like wow people will never talk to you like this in la the cons of that are that in la people act like that and then you think in your head you're like oh they're cool they're nice they're my friend they talk but it's actually not like that like they're just nice to you to your face because they have to be because that's how the culture is again but behind but they don't actually care about you or want to be your friend or anything later and that's why a lot of people say like la's fake and i think that's the reason why but in new york at least people are straight up hey i'd rather you be who you are than to be some fake person and then turn around and you know stab me in the back or like we're not even friends when i thought we were friends you know okay so next thing i want to talk about because this is also important especially for women is danger new york i um i have to say i think that it is more dangerous because you are again you're on foot all day long recently i've heard that you know the metro's been more dangerous than it usually has in the past um and i have already encountered a few instances where i felt a little scared or unsafe as a woman you have to just be careful you have to be aware at all costs like no matter what city you're in no matter where you're at like definitely you have to be aware i never walk around with like music in my ears i never just like walk around staring at my phone like i'm always aware um if somebody is giving me like a weird red flag like i let them know like i know you're there like don't think you're gonna pull something on me anyways for la you're driving around in your car so i feel more safe and then wherever you park like again from like the walk again from like where you park to your destination um anything could happen but i feel like it's less of a chance than in new york where you're constantly walking around okay so last on my list i have things to do and i think both cities are great for things to do they're just different so in l.a we have the beach we have hiking like right at your fingertips a lot of people have pools like a lot of the apartment complexes there most likely have pools obviously everywhere has shopping and stuff in new york outdoor activity is just the parks and what else and like if you're just walking around which you most likely are doing all day long anyways but yeah it's just really walking around but you're always like in between buildings so in la like the city is more spread out you just have a lot more space and a lot more like breath since you have a car you could drive out a little bit you could go into the desert more you could go into palm springs there's just a lot more stuff to do outside versus new york we're really mainly just looking at the parks here that's it you know you're just walking through the park you're not hiking or anything we do have and i'm still waiting for it to get warm enough but like the hudson river i've heard people you could do jet skiing you could uh do like rowing if you have a boat whatever so i'm actually looking forward to doing that when once summer comes around but other than that new york it's also hard to get out of the city i mean because again like you don't have a car that's all i had written down um so uh for me to rate one versus the other i don't think i could do that because they're different and again i think what it boils down to is what type of lifestyle you want i don't think that one is better than the other i think like you have to look at what is important in your life and um what you're willing to sacrifice and what you don't want to sacrifice and what you think you'll be happy with thanks for tuning in i shaved okay thanks for tuning in i'll see you next week and that's it bye don't forget to subscribe

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Length: 15min 27sec (927 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 15 2022