A New Yorker’s Guide to Surviving LA

Eliza VanCort
6 min readJul 6, 2021

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(And why states are like dating.)

I had only been in LA once before when I stepped off the plane a few weeks ago, bedecked in black head to toe, feeling a proper level of New York constant low-level angst and anxiety.

People often talk about “the coasts” and how they differ from the flyover states. After spending a week in LA LA land, I’ve concluded…

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