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I have a neighbor who grew up in Venice beach (a coastal town within greater Los Angeles). His parents live in the same house he grew up in. It's always been so
by olivermarks 9y ago
I have a neighbor who grew up in Venice beach (a coastal town within greater Los Angeles). His parents live in the same house he grew up in. It's always been somewhat touristy, especially on the oceanfront, but since the digital STR wave he says it has rapidly destroyed the neighborhood. The challenge is lots of late night activity - people talking loudly in the streets, screaming etc, drink and drugs, and just a general itinerant population of people who come and go, adding nothing to the locality. I know this reads like a 'get off my lawn' mentality, but it is surprising how quickly a place can lose its ambiance and atmosphere - the things that made it attractive to visit - when the population becomes dominated by faceless, ever changing visitors. It seems anywhere 'interesting' is suffering from these issues...
- colordrops 9y agoHmm, that sounds just like Venice Beach when I spent a lot of time there in the 90s.
- ng12 9y agoWow, those are some military-grade nostalgia goggles. Venice Beach was never a sleepy beach town, it was always kind of earthy with a healthy dosing of weekend revilers. The only thing that changed was the surfer dudes now own million dollar "quaint beachfront townhouses" and care about noise levels and the wrong type of people visiting their neighborhood.