
jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
As a citizen of the rural US who nevertheless frequently goes to large cities - and was indeed in DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES FOR A WHOLE WEEK a few weeks ago, if you're one of those people who thinks cities are somehow a festering pit of whatever, you really need to pull your head out, the worst thing that happened to me in DTLA is that a bunch of cute mini-sized bananas I bought for $5 from a street vendor there got overripe super fast