It's not all smog and pixie dust over here.

I just realized that my 'you know you're from LA when' was totally depressing. So I would like to add some things that I adore about my new city, things that make me want to wrap the whole metropolis up in a big hug and let it seep into my veins. In no particular order...

1. I drive by the Hollywood sign on my way to work.

2. There are hills! And I can drive up and down them! I would like to specifically recommend Baxter Street in Echo Park.

3. I live 2 blocks from a yummy Indian restaurant.

4. People here get their daily vitamin D from the sun, so people are friendly.

5. Going for a walk outside can happen 360 days a year.

6. I can walk to the Griffith Observatory.

7. If there's a specialty store for it, it's usually no more than 5 miles away.

8. It's hard to decide which yoga place to go to.

9. I'm no longer percieved as crazy liberal, but just normal.

10. Humidity does not happen.

11. FOLIAGE. LA is a living tribute to all things floral and green.

12. You can dress however you want on any day of the year, and fit right in.

13. When it's 9am in Michigan and the teachers over there are starting 2nd hour, my alarm clock is just going off.

14. Pacific Ocean. Enough said.


15. Not everyone is fake, like some would lead you to believe.

16. You can watch a TV show, run to the grocery store afterward and potentially run into someone you just saw on the screen.

17. No salty roads.

18. No frostbite.

19. 92 different languages spoken here every day.

20. You can catch a great band most any night of the week.

21. I live a block from a place called "Nature Mart".