Born and raised in a small town pretty much right in the middle of SD and LA and can honestly say they are different worlds. Don’t go to LA, unless it’s your first time here and you want to do some skate spot tourism, LA blows. Be prepared to sit in traffic for an hour and a half to travel maybe 5 miles away, everything is close relatively speaking, but there’s no fast way of getting to anything. Public transportation sucks in this state. Also, everyone in LA generally just seems angry, and if they’re not angry then they seem very superficial. It’s also extremely expensive. You’ll pay $3,000 for a one bedroom apartment and right outside there’ll be a skid row full of people living on the sidewalk in tents and just drugged out of their minds. Not that uncommon to literally step in human shit, or watch a tweaker yell at a light pole and square up to it.
SD is the fucking place to be though! All the good things you’d imagine in LA (perfect weather, cities with SkateSpots all over, your favorite skater just chilling at the dog park) and the people are just way more laid back and friendly.
Do have to admit you can get vibed out by certain people, but that’s universal. You’ll get vibed out way more in LA then you would in SD.
Also would like to address the posts saying we’re all dumb. You’re not wrong, there’s a lot of idiots here. But also would like to point out that a lot of people emigrate here, so I think our idiot ratio is about on point with the rest of America, it’s just that so much more of America is here than in other states.