Hi Fourth Place! Great video! Have you visited Long Beach? I think you'd like it a lot there's many neighborhoods with local shops like Cal Heights, Belmont Shore and Bluff Heights. The Downtown is dense and served by light rail. It has biking and hiking trails on the beach and along the LA and San Gabriel Rivers. It has large parks and lots of ethnic cuisines. Check it out sometime!

Love it! I grew up in Pasadena and now live in San Diego!

Riverside I loved, it’s so underrated imo and it’s an hour drive from LA

@dawnreneegmail

2 ай бұрын

but the air quality!!

Irvine is great for its safety and a few good Asian restaurants. That's about it. Besides that, it is such a bland and soulless place.. It's like having a beautiful partner with zero personality lol. I worked there for several years and I simply couldn't imagine actually living there for too long without going utterly insane.

@antoniahamilton3201

5 ай бұрын

I don't live there but I always get lost in Irvine. Everything is beige and so bland. It's devoid of any great landmarks. I never regret leaving it. Blahsville.

Your list of California's top 10 cities is perfect. I would have chosen most of the same ones myself. I'm from Northern California so I know very little about Southern California but I do agree with your list. And by the way I love your comment about Fresno for those who think San Francisco sucks lol. The entire Central California is just disgusting from Reading in the North down to Bakersfield. Keep up the good work.

@fourth_place

Ай бұрын

thanks! be sure to subscribe for future top 10s :)

Irvine is a good place, but I find it hard to really think of it as a city, and so personally I wouldn't have included it on a top 10 cities list. There is very little that is distinct about Irvine as a place to be or a destination to aim for. It's just another well-to-do suburb. Maybe if in 15 years it managed to densify and create some cool neighborhoods, architecture and culture.

Pleasant surprise to see the Pasadena shout out.

My mom lives in Temecula; it does have a very charming old town, but it’s mostly vanilla suburban sprawl. It is safe, clean, and has good schools, plus the wine scene. Very hot summers, but only 45 minutes to beaches. I used to live in Westlake Village (Thousand Oaks) - like Temecula it’s very suburban, but much wealthier and refined.

I guess a lot of the cities I thought would be on the list have populations < 100,000. I still think Santa Rosa should be in place of Temecula or Irvine.

Sunnyvale, pop 153,000, always in the top 5 safest for over 30 years.

Thank you for the video. I see a plethora of charming, inviting shops and cafés. I also see the infamous American car-centric approach to life, and I find the ubiquitous cars, car parks, and wide roads utterly off-putting. Beautiful cities require a city centre teeming with energy and delight. Shopping malls (lifestyle centres?) cannot replace a thriving centre (although Santana Row in San Jose may come close).

Where does Santa Barbra come into the picture? I may be mistaken but I don't see mention of it in your other videos.

@fourth_place

5 ай бұрын

it would be in the “properly rated” category. i’ll do a video on it one day. I rly like what they’ve been doing over there lately.

Me: "If San Diego isn't #1 I'm unsubscribing"😂 LMAO @ LA simultaneously being one of the best and worst cities. Irvine is definitely an interesting place, I made a music video about it. I would've personally put Costa Mesa on the list, except for its awful downtown where the 55 freeway abruptly ends and all the traffic empties into.

I love san francisco but it cost so much to do anything there... it was $40 bucks for a super small biscuit and watered down gravy with 1 egg , a coffee and a glass of orange juice so small it wasn't even 1 drink... to make it worse I was in the Tenderloin where people were smoking crack at the outdoor seating for the little diners. so I was thinking it should have been a little cheaper that 40 bucks it was just like Dave Chappelle said in his comedy special.. can't wait to go back 🪘🎄🍄

I agree on San Diego being placed high up but I think #3 for SF is too high. Comparing pre and post pandemic it feels like a different place and walkable shopping areas like market or embarcadero are a mixed bag of safety based on what time of day you are there. Return to office hasn't fixed the foot traffic of the city and more often than not feels like a ghost town.

Glendale ❤

lol Irvine stoinks.

Golden Gate Park is actually bigger than Central Park. Fun fact

@crazeyjoe

Ай бұрын

Central Park may be the most famous park in NYC. However, NYC has 4 parks that are larger.

LA is 100 cities in one border, 80 of which are shitty ugly bedroom communities most of which contain tacky and small 1960s housing, 10 of which contain insane mega mansions that are basically palaces, and 10 of which are walkable midsize cities with one main street containing restaurants and small businesses. Collectively, LA is a really shitty big city, but 20% of it is either very luxurious or pretty cool and urban. What’s crazy though is that even the really shitty ugly tiny houses with bars on the windows are priced at 600K to 700K, and good-sized houses are all priced at over 1 million.

@antoniahamilton3201

5 ай бұрын

Didn't you ever learn KISS? (Keep it simple stupid)

Bakersfield>thousand oaks