Geaux_Vols
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The problem with those quality of life articles are that they are usually written by writers who find big city life attractive. I can only speak as a southern boy whose customer has many offices in LA so I spend many weeks a year there. If you want traffic everywhere you go all day, everything overpriced and higher crime/homeless on streets everywhere, then LA is probably for you. LA has beaches over Tennessee and pretty consistent weather if you can afford to live in those areas. So for me, I would take Tennessee for Quality of Life all day every day over LA, don't care what the articles say.
You're obviously entitled to your preference, and I don't intend to try to convince you otherwise. My family is from Tennessee and I enjoy visiting. Just pointing out your perception is LA isn't universally held, and there's a lot of data science showing people enjoy living there (people are into different stuff, after all). Beyond that, I just don't think that type of stuff really matters that much to 17 year olds that will be experiencing whichever city they end up in in such a different way than you or I would.