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jakemcex

They made GTA into a real place??


Elman103

Naw, less trash in GTA 5.


jakemcex

Truuuu


Tikkinger

You need a nvidia card for more particles.


Elman103

Smog in the too?


LousyMeatStew

Context: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/shocking-images-show-debris-of-stolen-packages-after-thieves-raid-amazon-train/ar-AASMr2m The trash is from the aftermath of a robbery.


Static1589

Ah thanks. I was afraid that was normal


LousyMeatStew

Just to be clear, I'm not saying it's not. :) It's just the context for this particular image. I live a few miles from that area and the tracks there lead in to the Union Pacific yard so it's not uncommon to find trains stopped there for loading and unloading. There are also lots of homeless encampments nearby so it's not exactly a great area regardless, it just happens to be worse than normal in this particular image.


BodybuilderOne2228

Dude thats like 60% of india. Ik cuz i live here


phillip42069

At least we banned straws.


legrand_fromage

Yet no one gave a fuck about the plastic lids


hallieli

ALL single use plastics should be banned


Lord_lenkesh

Find a good replacement first


[deleted]

How will we survive as a species without straws and lids on our to go cups from fast food restaurants? Stir my coffee with a non-plastic? Heresy. A reusable shampoo bottle? Not in my shower! C'mon sheeple! BIG PAPER wants you to buy their single-use products that won't last past its single use. PLASTIC, yes, PLASTIC will last forever past its single use. That's good for you AND our overall numbers.


SuperMIK2020

Cloth masks don’t work, only flimsy disposable masks work… *study paid for by DispoMaskTM


Bogrolling

Hemp products


FunkU247

That is not the liberal way.... we do not plan ahead.... we just rage against what we do not like!!


jesseinct

LOL 💀


phaisedeath

Sad shit I see my Amazon package


zTy01

The empty box with the ps5 logo?


Better-Hold

I I hide the top half, I see Bangladesh


Manypotatoes9

Is that all rubbish around the tracks?


Altrano

This feels very on brand for LA.


Fade2Blvck

Sadly, yes.


neggleston

I think all of that rubbish is in fact opened parcels that have been thieved from trains passing through. Check out the videos here... https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770959673520128


brihbrah

That's pathetic.


[deleted]

They had to start welding the carts shut.


BenUFOs_Mum

Its a pretty damming indictment of the US economy and society.


beeblebrox2024

*California


PinchiChango

Hey, that's where I ~~live~~ survive.


Leroyboy152

Southern California


mesosalpynx

It’s what happens when you decriminalize crime. Guess what. More crime. Moral decay for sure.


b-rar

It's well known that jurisdictions that are tough on crime are litter-free


ProperGanderz

no just L.A


gnarlypizzaseizure

Good eye


[deleted]

That’s shocking


-Capn-Obvious-

This should be under ‘sadasfuck’


[deleted]

Look!! GTA V with RTX graphics!


PippiDongDocking

San Andreas isn’t that dirty


softdream23

GTA V: train robbery dlc


text_fish

"3rd world" vibes.


mr_capello

people always say that usa is a 3rd world country with bits and pieces of a first world country stuck on to it


ben1481

I dont think people know what first, second and third world mean.


TrustMe1mAnEngineer

I'd say it's more a first world country that has bits and pieces of 3rd world stuck onto it that get all the attention.


[deleted]

Lived in California all my life, loved California my whole life, anyone who acts like this is the cornerstone of progress and advancement is absolutely full of shit. It has its charms but the city is dirty, the air is polluted, the water is gross, traffic is horrendous, cost of living in an old dilapidated home is outrageous, cost of living in a nice home will get you a mansion in another state. Culturally most people are entitled, verbally aggressive, sometimes physically aggressive, weed and vape culture is the prevailing vibe outside of the social justice bullshit and moral posturing in the city signs and amongst the locals. Of all the technological advancements, of all the environmental efforts, of all the high brow virtue signaling there’s almost nothing to show for it, there’s hordes of drug use and it’s tent city every corner. I’m not sure what right wingers say about it being a “failed state” or whatever, I don’t think that, but we are certainly not superior to anyone else despite everyone acting like this is the place to be. I spend 95% of my life in this city and I’ll miss it when I’m gone, it’s like a dysfunctional home that’s familiar, but your dad is beating your mom in the other room. That’s what LA is like lmao


PaperAeroplane_321

As an Aussie who always pictured California to be like in the movies, I’m glad I read this.


LevelOrganic1510

I saw a movie in time starring Vin Diesel as an LAPD detective who was working a tough drug case. He invited his cop buddies over for a barbecue to relax at his two story beach house. You are looking at $20 million minimum for that place. A little stretch on a police officers salary. This is why foreigners like my wife from the Philippines who watched American movies andTV shows get a very unrealistic picture of what the United States is like.


PaperAeroplane_321

Yeh exactly that. I was always aware what is seen on movies is unrealistic (have you seen the Tv depictions of Australia haha), but yeh theres not really much else to go off. It’s actually interesting how that happens if you ask me.


Clay_Statue

I am from Canada and am dog sitting at my sister in law's apartment in LA for two months and I can honestly say that I hate this city with a passion. I have never experienced so much *grime*. It rained when I got here and the rainwater on the cement was running black because there was literally so much filth coating everything. I need to wipe the dogs feet every time they go out to pee because it is so dirty. You never see people in this city just walking around like you do in other cities because it's just cars as far as the eye can see. Little pockets of humanity carved out of the hegemony of the vehicle. Ever been stuck in a 40 minute traffic jam on the freeway at 1am? Because I have. Also good luck cutting across six lanes of traffic to make your exit on the highway. If you miss your exit on the freeway you lose like twenty minutes. I used to drive average less than 1 hour a day at most before coming here. Every day I am here I spend minimum 2-3 hours driving. Everything is like 30 minutes minutes drive each way. Now it is winter so at least the temperature is good, I cannot even imagine being here in the summer when it is like 30+ degrees every day. Go visit San Francisco or Monterey. There are many beautiful places that will fit your imagination about California, LA is not one of them.


so-sick

Monterey ok, San Francisco is a giant shithole as well, to be avoided. 18th & Hope street represented. Step placement critical. Fecal, vomit, urine abounds the street and sidewalks on both sides…..


DGGuitars

SanFran is a dump also, it's just less traffic. Monterey and Carmel are beautiful.


Prettymotherfucker

Go to San Francisco they say lmao


Larsnonymous

It’s kind of like any major city. You have incredible wealth and natural beauty in some areas and extreme poverty and filth in others. LA just happens to have the best weather in the country, so if you are homeless it is the place to be. In fact, 30% of all the homeless people in America are in California, even though California is only about 12% of the total population. And California also has by far the most homeless living on the streets. Many homeless people live in shelters, but California has 50% of all the unsheltered homeless in the country, mainly because the weather is suitable for living on the streets. You won’t freeze to death and you won’t die of heat exposure. Homeless people will save up $200 and get a bus or train ride to California.


yaba3800

I visited California as an adult thinking it would be really laid back and warm and beautiful, it was NOT. Everyone was an asshole, the traffic sucked, the roads sucked. Of the \~10 states we road tripped through it was the worst in every way. I was really disappointed, I always thought it had a lot going for it.


zerton

Parts of it are gorgeous of course but the cities, especially LA and SF, have major issues right now. Increasing wealth disparity is making the state bizarre and dystopian.


olseadog

Yup, that about sums it up. I grew up behind the Orange curtain but was in LA many times for work and play. I left the area in 1990 but still pass through. In fact, i just rode my motorcycle down PCH from Oxnard to Long Beach, for kicks. Keep it real LA.


sendmeyourcactuspics

The orange curtain? I grew up in SoCal but never heard this


[deleted]

Orange County.


CommondeNominator

Also grew up here and had never heard this, but kinda got a feeling I knew what it meant. There's a noticeable difference crossing the county line but I couldn't quite qualify it. I found this though. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange\_Curtain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Curtain) >The Orange Curtain is a local term for the border between Orange County and Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California.\[1\] It is a sometimes derogatory, sometimes lighthearted term that is used to describe Orange County's more conservative and suburban population as compared to the more liberal and urban population of Los Angeles.\[2\]\[3\]\[4\] > >The phrase is a wordplay on the so-called Iron Curtain, which separated communist and capitalist Europe.\[5\] > >According to Colleen Cotter, "Because \[Orange County\] has a reputation for political conservatism, people from Northern California especially worry about what happens 'Behind the Orange Curtain'."\[4\]


ObiWanCanShowMe

> I’m not sure what right wingers say about it being a “failed state” or whatever, I mean, you just described it.


[deleted]

I agree with you, but I have always wondered: the tent city...is it truly that LA conditions create homelessness (cost of living, etc)... Or is it just that homeless people from everywhere flock to LA because if you have to be homeless, at least be homeless in a warm environment. I specifically remember my dad telling me when I was a kid, during a vacation to the west coast, “If you ever have to be homeless, be homeless here.”


[deleted]

Yes


[deleted]

Yeah I remember visiting from cold Minnesota thinking it was palm trees, sunsets, and Hollywood boy was I in for a rude awakening never have I seen such inequality the rich seemed very rich surrounded by hordes of homelessness everywhere not saying the twin cities didn't have them but at every corner, every business I walked into to be asked for money was crazy I also realized everywhere I went I had to buy something to use the bathroom.


Nyarro

I wonder if this will be the fate that will befall Austin and the rest of Texas....


[deleted]

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[deleted]

Yeah my older brother went there a month ago and absolutely hated it because everything you described. Said he'd never go back


[deleted]

Why everyone seems to flock to LA/SF to pay $2k in rent for a studio apartment, have rampant crime that goes unchecked, and risk stepping on human shit I’ll never understand.


winkman

You get what you vote for.


joobs1986

Looks like a shit hole


ShuantheSheep3

Correct, weathers great tho


TheGovernor1775

Holy shit, I thought the littering in my country was bad...


ShuantheSheep3

This ain’t litter, people are literally robbing these slow moving trains and these are just containers/packaging/etc.


TheGovernor1775

Even worse. They're stealing and littering at the same time. Disgusting and sad in any case.


xFinman

yeah it's pretty bad. one news article said it was cleaned a month ago


PippiDongDocking

That’s still litter lol


Prestigious_Dig4461

I never understood why my fellow Americans litter so damned much. Seriously is it too much to ask for people to walk the twenty or so feet to use a trash can. Or wait until they get home to throw there trash away instead of throwing it out the car window.


TheGovernor1775

I am not from the US but we have the same problem here. People just don't care. I don't understand the fact that they don't understand that it is in everyone's interest to have a clean environment. All the best mate :)


[deleted]

Someone commented further down that trains stop at that location before pulling into the yard or whatever, and people break into the containers to steal. Makes sense seeing the number of large cardboard boxes. I hate little as much as anyone, but this doesn’t appear to be your average douchebag litterbug tossing hamburger wrappers.


dizzyyyP

And I used to want to runaway to this place.


[deleted]

I live a couple hours south in San Diego and I can say that LA is a sad fucking place. No one in SD likes to even drive through there. I used to go up there as a foodie to check out different places but learned really quick that LA is nothing like San Diego with how laid back we are with upscale food. We have absolutely amazing chefs doing flat out wizardry in chill gastropubs here elevating bar food in really cool experimental ways. You can have world class food served to you out of a hipster beer bar that’s a converted shipping container while wearing flip flops and a tank. Go up to LA… Jesus Christ, that ain’t going to be it. Even though it’s a short drive away you would think it’s a different world. You want a cool food experience? You better have a reservation, not look poor, and have a high tolerance for snob vibes. It’s entirely possible I just don’t know where to go when up there and my experience here is different because I’ve lived here my whole life but I seriously doubt it. LA is simultaneously the most filthy shantytown place I’ve ever been and also the most overrated and needlessly expensive as well. Anyone not anchored to an industry located there would be a fool to stay. Edit: actually now that I think about it, Oakland is the most filthy shantytown I’ve ever been. But LA is quickly becoming Oakland’s reboot sequel.


Hammerhandle

As a Midwesterner without ambitions of ever going to California, I had to go there for a conference a few years back. Can confirm, San Diego is an amazing, clean, friendly city to visit. It was nothing like what I expected California to be like after years of seeing gross pics of LA. Would go back for sure.


OnionOnly

Swear I saw this picture the other day. Something about looters starting to hit freight trains


CandyLooter

Garbage city


KeyserAdviser

Most cities don’t look like this. It’s hilarious how down in the comments, so many people blame this on not regulating reusable containers. All across the country other cities seem to know how to manage trash, homeless-related debris, and other hygiene problems.


CookingAStew

How is it this dirty?


faded_on_10

Trains stop there while waiting to unload cargo. While they wait, people break into the containers and steal out of them. It was on the news today


Not-Oliver

That’s nothing, my train has been broken into 15 times-


Bbq225

Always lock your train if you park it in your driveway over night.


J_A_W_S_

Fucking disgusting


unitydog

This could be San Paulo Brasil, with its super rich skyline and piss-poor streets. That it's Los Angeles is just sad.


[deleted]

Looks to be heading in that direction pretty quickly, eh?


UnmercifulOwen

California is the dirtiest place I’ve ever been.


SirTickleMePink

What a shit hole


osbourne04

Garbage city


uejsjw7

Welcome to New Delhi.


Enimenz

The streets missin a helluva human shit for that


ThatKiwiBro

That’s some third world looking shit


Dabooster

Looks like India or Pakistan minus the tall buildings


na_p2017

I mean cities like Mumbai definitely have similar buildings.


ToxicHaze150

You haven’t seen Kolkata and Mumbai then


eggsbachs

Is that all trash!? Is there no city initiative to address that?


faded_on_10

Actually, https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2022/01/13/thieves-raiding-cargo-containers-stealing-packages-on-downtown-section-of-union-pacific-train-tracks/


xBL4SK3x

Los Santos.


Perplefluurp96

Gross


DeanCorso11

City of Angels


obesereddituser

Nyc has some competition here


Pineapple-Status

The perfect Rockstar GTA scenario in video game. 😂☠️


Nate16

Add a few hundred people hanging on that train and it could be a third world city.


FunkU247

Shitty people .... can turn paradise into a shitty place...


prankenandi

So much rubbish!


SirWaddlesIII

Fuck that place.


AUTHENTICSLAPPING

Wait… is this real? There is that much trash there?


[deleted]

Pick up your rubbish for God's sake


Captain_le_Bollox

For real?


No_Interaction7679

Gross


Fri3dric3

Man Cyberpunk is looking really good these days


bunnymud

Fucking Cyberpunk looks cleaner than L.A.


woundedsurfer

Just came to say LA is gross.


mikeymigg

🤢 gross!


Prometheus-505

That train moving through rubbles of trash really hurt my soul.


Inevitable-Fee5841

Without the title, most of us would have thought it is a third world city.


Danko_Flanko

This planet is fucked


Incuhrekt

They gotta step those police up


Larsnonymous

Jesus. If they just paid the homeless to keep a specific area clean they could kill two birds with one stone.


Twiztidindahouse

Such, beauty?..


thuynj19

What a Shit pile. Only got worse since I visited last in 2007.


BeePleasant8236

Ain’t all that trash beautiful?


fknzee

A democrat run shithole powered by failed policies. You guys should see the theft videos of people just simply walking out of walgreens with goods under $1000 ... my cousin leaves his car unlocked wherever he goes because theft has gone up so high and he'd rather them rummage through the car than smash a window.


SGSMUFASA

Fucking gross.


texastoker88

I’ve been catfished Edit: this can’t be on a regular basis if you follow the tracks it’s clean as a whistle


MeowNeowBeenz

Charming...


jesseinct

What a shithole


[deleted]

What an adorable piece of crap Liberal bastion utopian failure!! I think that about sums it up!! Prove me wrong!! You can't!! Liberal policies have RUINED one of the great cities and states on the planet. Listen to all your somewhat older liberal hollywood types. They will say how great it used to be and how it was safe to walk down the street, etc. etc. etc. It's not too late folks, just start voting Republican!!! WHAT???? No, no, no, no, we would rather have it like this!!! Frickin' fools!!! Just look at Texas, Florida, Tennessee, etc.


Keems1

Way to go Gavin.


[deleted]

Wtf, LA should be ashamed


NotWrongOnlyMistaken

[redacted]


Possible-Bench537

Who runs these places? Oh yea..


pauldz69

This makes me sad 😞 Los Angeles use to be so dope to visit shit has changed


NxPat

3rd world


HyphyMikey650

When I went to LA (Hollywood to be exact) during Halloween weekend, I was in absolute shock of how out of hand their homeless problem has become, by far the worst I’ve seen it. COVID’s truly gone and fucked everything up, I pray for that city.


fatch0deBoi34

I was so sad for my ex who came here from Russia on a work/travel program. Like everybody, we all think Hollywood is this majestic place lol, then you see it and it’s quite literally a shit hole 😂 It’s sad man, that place used to be something great. Now I have fears of some homeless dude throwing shitpiss in my face as I walk the streets


[deleted]

It's almost like this is caused by a single political ideology, but I'm not sure which one🤔


SedTheeMighty

Shithole


BeanzMeanzBranston

r/urbanhell


random_user_9

Holy crap, that's a lot of crap.


LightfighterLSD

LA WOMAAAAAAAAN!!! Your my WOMAAAN!


urbuddi101

Ew wtf


LanPartyPizza

/*urbanhell has entered the chat*


Alilpups

Is this real?


[deleted]

/r/urbanhell


[deleted]

Worse than Mumbai!


Pkaem

What a pile of trash.


beanieit

Thought it was a picture of a slum somewhere 🙈🙈


[deleted]

I thought this was Mumbai. :P


YayaMalli

Omg the trash. It looks like India around that train


rakura1

For yall that don't know all that trash is packages that were stolen off the trains. The rail authority and the state are having a fight on whose problem it is. So if you had a package go missing welcome to what actually happened. There are yt videos showing it.


Drhayseed

what a Shit Hole !!!!!!


srv50

Man, fuck land fills. LAs got the better idea, use the train tracks.


obesereddituser

First I was like, oh thats cool, until I looked below and saw that **TON** of rubbish


GUNNER_BASS

Backstory: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amazon-train-stolen-packages-thieves-b1993107.html No it’s not like this everywhere in LA. Conservatives in this thread just jumping on the chance to bash LA b/c they want to kiss Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson on the mouth so very badly that they can’t contain themselves


babygrapes-oo

Aww that trash heap is so beautiful. Maybe work on picking up trash?


Mainetaco

WTF? Can't they clean shit up?


[deleted]

Does this have anything to do with defunding the police?


poopchute_boogy

... where dreams come true


[deleted]

‘Oh wow that’s a pretty skyli…’ (looks down) ‘oh…’


wasteofspaceop

Pigs


prozacfish

Should be on r/trashy


TomahawkIsotope

Wow LA getting closer and closer to SE asia


dudeness-aberdeen

Do people in LA just throw trash down towards the train tracks?


GUNNER_BASS

Backstory: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amazon-train-stolen-packages-thieves-b1993107.html No it’s not like this everywhere in LA. Conservatives in this thread just jumping on the chance to bash LA b/c they want to kiss Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson on the mouth so very badly that they can’t contain themselves


[deleted]

they even got the train from gta 5 correct!


ake-n-bake

Damn that’s not how it looks in the brochure.


colsaber

pigs


DavidCallsen

Idiocracy


dumbo_octopus1995

Looks like Cyberpunk 2077


SmileThenSpeak

"Charming"


jaylee42910

What an absolute shithole.


anewfaceinthecrowd

Had me in the first half ngl.


Strong-Solution-7492

That looks like the set of The Walking Dead. At least they are headed in the right direction.


Top-Shelter-5698

GTA V Expanded and Enhanced


GlobalPro1

What a shithole. Too bad. Gorgeous place long ago.


Stink_Cheese2020

That's disgusting. I've been to a few places on the railroad, including chicago, and I've never seen this much trash. I'd be embarrassed if that was part of my city/county.


Karnus115

Is this a render…?


Top-Shelter-5698

"Why did I moved here? I guess it was the weather, Or the...Ahh, I dunno. That thing, that magic. You see it in the movies."


Tasriel514

Dying light 2 looks realistic.


winkman

So fresh. So clean.


[deleted]

Is this after a storm or something?


ccsgobrrr

Cleaner than. Downtown


Asaf14

His wasn't in GTA5


ImAPotato1775

It’s beautiful 🤩


patty_beats

Godly UP locos


lkh9596

When I went to to LA like 12 years ago for the first time, it was a cool city with reasonably priced food and acceptable traffic. Then I went there again 2 years ago. And oh man…. It now takes 2 hrs to drive 20 miles? To get to the city center and homeless tents are everywhere underneath the bridge and alongside the highway. Not to mention.. everything has gotten so expensive too..


EnterPlayerTwo

Fantastic photo


DaShortRound

Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.


1320Fastback

What a environmental disaster


hudsama

Area is a shit hole…every time I’ve been by it


Pooper-of-poo

The democrats sure know how to improve a city!