Los Angeles is of course ‘the city of angels’ and mostly known here for being home to Hollywood. Although this is a glamorous film industry, it seems England is becoming more and more Americanised (nothing wrong with the US, but we have our artsy film industry here that gets little support). Some campaigners want limits on imports of Hollywood films, to support our struggling actors and actresses, often we provide ‘quality over quantity’.
The town of Hollywood itself is actually not that glamorous, despite the sign in the hills. And the suburbs are more skyscrapers and financial districts. And the huge Hollywood and tourism industries means it suffers heavy pollution and smog, especially with gridlocked traffic.
With a nice climate, it’s a nice place to live but has suffered in recent years with earthquakes and wildfires. For the first reason, it doesn’t have many skyscrapers, which is often why the stars’ ‘homes in the Hollywood hills’ are only one or two stories high’.
get positive, get healthy!
One thing we can all learn from people in LA is how to get healthy! For the most part, they are positive people who make a smoothie each morning for breakfast, eat lots of vegetables, exercise a lot (from yoga to a workout at the gym) and see being healthy and fit as something that’s a necessary part of life. They have the can-do attitude that’s so wonderful about Americans!
If you’re sitting on your sofa eating crisps and drinking too much beer and watching junk TV, just pretend you’re from Los Angeles! Someone here will simply go buy an exercise manual, eat up the junk food and give themselves a health makeover, and transform their life!
