An Open Letter to People Who Complain About Living in Los Angeles

Dear People Who Complain About Living in Los Angeles,

The next time you talk to me, I am going to punch you in the face.

Look. I get it. It’s not a perfect city. You have to drive a lot. So do other people! This causes traffic. Unfortunate! And yes, there are some douchebags here. Some girls are too skinny. Some people are dumb! Sometimes these factors combine (example: lots of traffic to get to a party with douchebags and dumb skinny people) to create a big shiny ball of self-righteous frustration.

But, PWCALILA, you know what? YOU LIVE HERE. If you don’t want to live here, if the negatives SO OUTWEIGH THE POSITIVES, please feel free to get the hell out so that the rest of us can live in peace.

I love this town. I do. I love the weather, I love my friends, I love my apartment, I love my local hangout spots. I am head over heels crazy about every tacky inch of the greater Hollywoodland area, and frankly PWCALILA, you are killing my buzz.

“But I haaaaaaave to live here,” you’re probably whining to yourself right now. “I haaaaaaaave to live here because of my joooooob. I want to work in fiiiiiiiilm. But I really wish I could go do that in Des Moines or Seattle or whereeeeeeeeeever but I caaaaaaan’t.”

Yeah, well. BUCK THE F*** UP. If this is the only city that is going to allow you to pursue your BIG FANCY DREAMS, what the HELL are you complaining about? The weather is awesome, the beach is a half hour away, there are literally hundreds of things to get involved with, and, oh yeah, YOU DECIDED TO MOVE HERE TO PURSUE A CAREER IN THE LA ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY. And you’re going to spit in its face? You’re going to look at the place you’ve CHOSEN to build the live that you want and then spend years complaining like a whiny little bitch? You should be ashamed of yourself.

The thing that pisses me off the most is when people say “LA isn’t New York.” DUH. OBVIOUSLY, LA is not New York. You know what other places aren’t New York? ALL OTHER PLACES WITH THE EXCEPTION OF NEW YORK. If you want to move to New York, for God’s sake move to New York and get out of my town.

Thanks. Hope you’re doing well. But don’t ever try and talk to me again.

-Meghan