LA vs. SF

     Being that I am from the great state that is California, I only feel as if it's natural I compare and contrast the two most glorious cities there; Los Angeles and San Francisco (sorry San Diego, you didn't make the cut). See, ever since I moved out to Hawaii, I have had to explain to people where I'm from. I'm seemingly running into the same problem every time, that people don't recognize that there's a huge difference between Southern California and Northern California. Known as "the classic city feud," people from LA and SF alike like to make one thing clear: though there exist a few granted similarities, the two cities are vastly different, from their human-environment interaction to their cultural movements (Kruschewsky, paragraph 1).
     I think most of the confusion arises because people are simply not familiar enough with the two cities. I've been to both cities--though I admit that I've been to LA far more times due to the fact that I'm a Southern California boy. Los Angeles is "The City of Angels;" a "city with the most substance in the United States -- cultural substance" that is claims famed Angeleno Werner Herzog (Bradley, paragraph 3).

San Francisco is "Saint Francis;" a city so great that famed writer Rudyard Kipling proclaimed that "the only drawback... is how hard it is to leave" (Gregoire, paragraph 2). Obviously each city has character, but evolution and contemporary movements, along with geographical elements create rather clear distinctions.
 

Works Cited

Bradley, Paul T. "50 Reasons Los Angeles Is the Best Effing City in America." L.A. Weekly. N.p., 14 Oct. 2011. Web. 02 Oct. 2016.

Gregoire, Carolyn. "This Is Why People Who Live In San Francisco Are So Happy And Healthy." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 27 Sept. 2013. Web. 02 Oct. 2016.

Kruschewsky, Gabriela. "Los Angeles vs. San Francisco: Which City Rules The West Coast?" The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 8 Mar. 2014. Web. 02 Oct. 2016.