Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "LA fires: firefighters battle to contain three fires" video.

I feel sorry for folks losing their houses/belongings, naturally. And, of course, those who lost their lives. But let’s face it, this is LA, hardly the most beautiful city in the world. Not even up there in American terms. It can be rebuilt and nothing particularly disastrous has been lost in aesthetic terms. This would’ve been catastrophic and culturally disastrous if say, Toledo, or Paris, or Venice, or Edinburgh had been burned down. That stuff is irreplaceable.
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@ambirat ⁠I think you may have missed my main point, so for the hard of observing: if LA were wiped from the map tomorrow, it wouldn’t be missed architecturally-speaking and could be rebuilt without guilt. If, say, Prague, or York, or Granada, or Florence, or Budapest etc., were wiped from the map, they very definitely would be missed. Irreplaceable. LA can be re-created because there was nothing there to lose in the first place! 👍
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@TashaCreatesStuff Ok, a few nice houses. Put it this way, and once again, losing LA in a fire is, by and large, not the same as losing, say, Seville or Marrakesh, or Rome, or Dubrovnik or etc etc. My point? LA is, essentially, one of the uglier urban spots on the planet, notwithstanding one or two pretty houses.
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