jmulvi

Me too - for the last 10 mins in Los Angeles, CA on iPhone.

You are missing the point. I said "educated young people... move to world class cities". These world class cities are also expensive. You pay a lot to live in New York, Los Angeles or London. Unfortunately, this lack of affordable housing pushes out all but the highest paid workers. There is some social housing and other benefits to help the very poor. Everyone in the middle gets squeezed out of the big cities, especially when they marry and/or have kids and need more space. So, a lot more people would like to live in San Francisco for example than can currently afford it. This is why less well educated young people are moving to the newest suburbs. It's what they can afford. These new suburbs often have the fewest and lowest paying employment opportunities so it's a long term drain on the economy and future growth.

I think the issue is proximity to a world class city. The economic growth that we see in bigger cities leads to lots of opportunities for advancement. These are the places smart young people move to after they graduate university, the places where many of the top universities are based, they are also expensive due to this success.

The suburbs are finding it harder to attract educated 20 somethings because of a lack of professional opportunities as well as changing lifestyle trends. I think there will be a graying-out of the suburbs as they get older until property prices become affordable to young professionals and the work/commute times become more bearable. I have no idea why working remotely is not more common in 2017 but that would be a massive improvement over the ridiculous commutes so many people have to suffer through.

I'm going to assume you have never been to LA.

Just like London it is a collection of "villages". What were originally separate cities: Santa Monica, Hollywood, Pasadena etc have all been absorbed into the whole that is LA. I'm sure you can recognize the same process in london where Hampstead and Stratford have distinct personalities and yet are now both a small part of the whole that is London.

Now LA, unlike London is a city much easier to live in and less easy to experience as a tourist. Tourists try to travel from Malibu to Hollywood boulevard to the Broad museum all in the same day. This is a wonderful way to experience LA traffic. Any person who lives here would recommend you choose on area and spend most of your time experiencing it properly. If you want a walkable neighborhood go to Santa Monica, West Hollywood or Downtown. If you want nature, hiking and to feel like you are not in the city go to Malibu or the Hollywood Hills.

I would argue that all of the LA neighborhoods I mentioned are very familiar to most of us because we watch movies and television and LA is traditionally where those products are made. Maybe you don't watch tv or go to the movies - in that case go to the David Hockney exhibition in london and you will see that LA is one of the most distinctive cities in the world. It is good weather, easy living, good looking inhabitants and it is surrounded by a natural beauty few other cities possess. I could argue it makes London look like a giant rat hole in comparison but to each their own!

I think London has its historic sights and some pretty neighborhoods but the livability of the city is shockingly bad. From crappy housing stock to antiquated tube - I am much happier in LA. But that's just me.

It seems hard to defend Apple's position. The pushed their tax avoidance strategies as hard as they could in Ireland until they were paying 0.005 percent in 2015. It would be wonderful if tech companies took this moment to push for clear and transparent international taxation laws. Some of the tax avoidance measures currently practiced can seem particularly unfair from a layperson's perspective.

Gawker was an entertaining read and loved by many. Doesn't this 10 year long vendetta against a popular news website make Peter Thiel look like an out-of-touch evil Bond villain. I'm not saying he is one, but to use a Trumpism, many people are saying he is.

Those plastic mats you find in urinals don't seem to do much to prevent splash back in my experience. It seems like the urinal shown at the end of the article with more of a vase or jug design has a better chance of preventing urine splashing back all over your shoes and pants.

This (ridiculously cheap air travel for short city breaks) is more of an issue in Europe than in the US. In America air travel is still, comparatively expensive. In Europe there is much more competition among airlines to serve the super cheap <$10 flights. The US is also much more spread out. I can fly to 50-100 European cities from London in under 2 hours - from LA I have fewer than five options and the prices will be 10x what Ryanair or Easyjet charge.

All social networks are based on our capacity to trust others. We trust social networks like facebook and foursquare not to abuse us with unwanted ads and we trust others to treat us and our information with respect. This "Girls around me" article is coming from a place of extreme fear.

The users of this app are most likely to be introverted young men rather than serial killers and rapists. It's impossible to hurt someone with an app so linking the existence of any app with the dangers of stalking, rape and murder seems to be fear mongering.