Monday night epiphany

Last night, was running from Santa Monica along the beach down to Marina Del Rey and realized something - I actually really like LA. I always fall in love with LA when I'm running along the beach. But this time - I know it's something more permanent than a transitory feeling of happiness as a result being able to run outside any time of the year by the beach and the release of endorphins from my pitutary gland, increasing the release of GABA and therefore disinhibiting the dopamine production.

Point being, I am shy of 2 days from being in LA for 8 months. I guess that's how it takes for me to get used to - and finally LIKE LA. It takes me way longer to get used to LA, just because it is a shitty city. I do like for certain qualities, but that doesn't change that it's a shitty city and not even on TimeOut's list of 10 greatest cities: http://www.timeout.com/travel/features/362/the-worlds-greatest-cityr

TimeOut bases their rankings on: architecture, art & culture, buzz, food & drink, quality of life, and world status. The following scores are that of NYC and London, which I agree with 100% from living in both places:

1. New York, USA

Architecture: 9

Arts & culture: 10

Buzz: 10

Food & drink: 9

Quality of life: 6

World status: 9


Total/60: 53

2. London, UK

Architecture: 7

Arts & culture: 10

Buzz: 9

Food & drink: 9

Quality of life: 6
World status: 9
Total/60: 50

If I had to score LA, I would probably give it the following:

Architecture: 3 (baller beach houses does not count as good architecture in my book)
Arts & culture: 3 (what culture?)
Buzz: 8 (only because of Hollywood and the celebrities)
Food & drink: 4 (hardly any restaurants with more than 1 Michelin star)
Quality of life: 9 (can't argue with this fact - it is an amazing place to live)
World status: 6 (just because most of the world does not know that LA isn't even a real city)
Total/60: 33

Anyway, I miss math so I'm trying to come up with a function f(x) = y, where x is the timeout NY score, and y is the number of months it will take me to get used to a city. That way, I can predict how long it will take me to get used to living in Paris, Berlin, or Chicago, if I wanted to move there. It's obviously an inverse relationship with probably some sin curve, but I'm probably not enough of a math nerd to figure it out.

SO - next time I complain about LA, just ignore me since it's probably just for attention. I do like LA....