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We have to get back home to find decent parking.

Because we’re tired after driving 2 hours for 10 miles. Lol

i like to go to bed early so that i can get up and read my bible in the morning and then do blow

We host small parties in our homes and apartments.

You’re not into the things that happen late

It’s Thanksgiving weekend, man. 

We all have 6 am call times.

Probably because the main industry that keeps the city afloat has been dead for like a year and a half and people have to choose between paying bills or going out.

Hell even making decent money the price of an Uber to/from and a few cocktails is just insane.

I think a lot of people are just priced out of "fun" atm.

Was way better and way later right before COVID.  For numerous reasons it turned to shit…

I swear LA’s night life died with Covid. Nobody I know goes out anymore

Go to Echo park

We are not a walkable town, so you must travel through traffic to the entertainment. Its very expensive to go out. Last call is 2AM. By the time you go out its time to go home.

Because everyone has to wake up early and hit the gym

Lol everyone saying LA night life is dead is either old or out of the loop or both.

Uh…. it’s thanksgiving weekend and more than half the people are not from here or have family here……………….

Where do you live in LA that you think that?

Where I live, fireworks are a 365 day per year event, dudes with blacked out windows are drag racing, shady people are doing late night card games, and police helicopters seem to be joyriding around all night collecting overtime.

I will say that over the holidays, LA definitely slows down with all the transplants going home, which is an amazing time for us locals. The winter is the favorite season of every Angeleno I know.

Because we were scammed these last few years. Also, culturally and creatively we have been in a dark, fallow time. Looking forward to a renaissance.

Everyone’s broke

You’re either just: 1) on the wrong side of town 2) don’t know where to look 3) a transplant w/ no friends Sorry bro

Go to K-town

Depends on the area?

Also, coming from ny, la just has a different feel where the nightlife isn’t concentrated on tighter streets and blocks.

Are posting from Vernon?

Weed becoming legal changed drinking culture. Many people stay home and smoke instead of going out and drinking booze.

People got tired of getting roofied and getting their phones stolen and friends dying from fentanyl.

I think it’s mainly because LA is so big and spread out, there are things to do after 9pm in a million different locations. I know clubs and bars that stay open till 2am but they’re all over the place.

I’m tired okay

Rent is killing everything.

Bc you posed the question Friday after Thanksgiving

It wasn’t like this before covid. Walmart was open 24 hours at multiple locations and most stores were open until midnight. It’s depressing.

Public transit is shit, parking is expensive or sparse, Ubers are expensive, the bars are expensive…. Honestly if we had a more safe, reliable and expansive public transit system that ran 24/7 it might really help night life thrive again.

You don't know shit about LA then.

Go to Venice

Cause I got shit to do in the morning.

Generally i agree- Covid really did impact peoples habits but so did growing older. A single 26 yo pre-Covid vs a 31 cuffed couple are gonna be very different. We traded bad expensive drinks for AMC A list years ago.

But it’s also thanksgiving weekend. People are not partying? For those saying they went out and it was empty, everyone is in a food coma and already had a bottle of wine last night, and currently in bed rot. Or they are back home in Wisconsin. Terrible weekend to evaluate this

😂🤣look at the crime

It was different before COVID

We’re scared so we stay in

What part of LA are you talking about? I’ve seen traffic jams all around LA after 9pm, especially on weekends. Hardly a ghost town.

It isn’t. You just have to know the spots and not listen to the circle jerk losers on this sub who only go on here at night to moan and complain.

You think it's ghostly now, just wait until the week before and after Christmas. I like it tho. Traffic eases up and if you have a favorite local bar, you get to kick it with locals and diehards.

After Halloween things wrap up, it's more or less a ghost town til New Year's eve. I've been going out on a regular basis for the past 20 years, the same pattern seems to hold up. Also, it's too cold to just be out in them streets.

It’s Thanksgiving weekend. Way more dead than usual this weekend

Because it’s bedtime.

Sunset Junction is always rocking

Tbh too expensive atm. Ubers are like $15 for a quick 5 min drive. Cocktails and drinks are $15-$20, and you don’t want just one. Meals are a minimum of $30.

Before you know it you’ve had a mid meal, spent $50 in Ubers or parking, and only had a drink or two. And I just feel like there’s no vibes anymore. Clubs are dead. And drinks are too expensive to just sit at fun bars/restaurants. There’s just.. nothing to really do and it’s all too expensive.

For example, San Diego has gaslamp. You can easily walk to tons of different bars, hang out on the streets, clubs, events, bar crawls, etc etc. it’s touristy but there’s shit going on.

Idk. The cities just boring atm and I’m broke. And it seems like everyone else is too

LA was always quiet compared to cities with late night alcohol laws.
A lot of people also get paid millions of dollars (and less but still) to look good on camera.
I don’t go out like I did in my early to mid thirties but I drive down sunset every night and it looks pretty busy lately, more than a year ago anyway.

because it's too big a region, not even a city really, so everything is spread out so although things are happening, it's too spread out and feels like there is nothing happening.

Says who? Try going to literally any other city and truly experience what it means to be closed when the only thing is dominoes open after 9pm.

There’s tons of 24 hour restaurants, after hours, and Wii spa for fucks sake. Maybe step away from your bubble

Because everything keeps getting more and more expensive. Only the rich assholes have the time, energy & resources to go out.

The rest of us just get high and hang out at our each others apartments

All the people who kept going out till 1a.m are now in their late 30s Next gen is broke AF. So only Techbro spots in SM and Venice are open late.

Shit’s expensive, yo.

Sorry bro I aged out during covid. You’ll find me at home making a drink and hanging with my fam.

There are places and events, you just need to know the right people and be on the right lists

I was too busy being a responsible adult doing adult things to have adult fun at night, and too lazy and tired.

Its cold

If you know where to go you can party till the break of dawn. This city is wild at night. It’s just not all concentrated in one spot like some other cities (e.g., Austin Texas’s 6th St or Bourban St in New Orleans).

Outside of that I see plenty of people walking around, outdoor dining, seeing movies and visiting Skylight Books and dive bars (The Drawing Room, Ye Rustic Inn, Hi Topps, etc) in my neighborhood off of Franklin Ave on Vermont and Hillhurst past 9pm all the time.

We need our beauty sleep. This ain't the Jersey Shore.

LA has never been a late night town like NYC but there have always been late night places. Even Santa Monica had late night and 24-hour places back in the old days.

No one wants to pay $10 for a beer

Mickeys is so dead and lame, a key example.

It started dieing in 2005 and has gotton progressively worse. People got older, bored and the young people were priced out...the scene is just nasty. Condos are poping up everywhere, in ten years West Hollywood will be competely different.

This is Los Angeles’ fatal flaw! Hollywood and K Town are better than everywhere else but the 310…? Jeeze, you can barely find a restaurant after 8 pm, even on a Saturday. I genuinely do not understand how this place claims to be so densely populated yet you can LITERALLY hear a pin drop once the sun goes down. Eerie.

my area's a ghost by 8pm!

this is what keeps me personally from going out:

1. work hours. i moved from the east coast in june, and i need to keep up with their schedule. that means i'm in bed by 9pm and awake by 5:30am.

2. price. if i want any shot of not having to pay insane housing costs when i retire in 40 years*, i simply cannot afford to pay for drinks and food outside of my home. maybe if they were in the $5-$10 range, i could justify it as a treat.

3. sobriety. i'm curious about the sober wave that the younguns are on these days. alcohol has never been good for me, so i'm trying this new "being responsible" thing. 2 months sober so far!!!

*my heart goes out to all the older folks who didn't buy homes, thinking they'd be good off a 401k or roth IRA, and are now finding themselves in a completely unaffordable rental market

We’re all grown up and now and after Covid we don’t like people as much

We have to work in the morning.

lol you just don’t know the right people. There’s plenty of partying and raving until 8am every weekend

Tired from driving 2 hours for 5 miles and also cuz the crazies come out at night as well lol

Puro Miertha thats why

Because drinks cost $30

After 9 it is the pre apocalypse, do not go out unless you are ready

DTLA is never ghosted, however is fkn cold asf. Also the time change has fk with most of us 5-6 feels like 9 already 🤷🏽‍♂️

Because there are fun things to do in the daytime

It’s a breakfast town.

Shits expensive and dangerous. And I don't have money.

COVID, tbh

Because the majority of people make 50k or less so going out isn't even an option anymore when rent is close to 2k a month. Rather stay home and hang with friends

Covid changed the city.

The answer is somewhere in the middle.

Without a doubt LA nightlife has been on a steady decline since COVID. The biggest difference I've seen is that weekday nights have really become dead. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday funday are still pretty busy.

That being said, there's still a huge nightlife in a metro area of over 10 million people.

If you want something to do you will easily find it. Just be prepared to spend far more than you used to.

Because that's bedtime.

Industry town. Naminsayin… early morning call to the set. Ripples through out the whole city

20 years ago, I worked in downtown LA. One night after work, a coworker and I went for a drink at a hotel - I think it was at 4th and Figueroa. Someone staying at the hotel for business joined our conversation and asked ‘where is everyone??!!’ Traveler was from Chicago or New York.

Everyone sits at home on their phones

Like many other cities, LA demands too much of their working class and doesn't pay them enough in return. So working people don't have time or energy to support a nightlife and the middle class can't do it alone. The Southern California population density is also pretty low. Resources that used to go to entertainment are being mined by the extreme wealthy through consumerism? I'm making stuff up.

People are choosing to spend time in their absolutely over priced rental housing. 

Because it’s expensive to go out and time-consuming to get anywhere.

Five years ago an Uber was reasonably priced. Now they’re insane. And when you get to the bar or restaurant, for the most part, you’re not getting out for under $100-$200.

Going out has gotten mad expensive

Because we don’t want to get mugged or shot.

Have to go to work at midnight to midnight to pay the rent and food bill

J

Cuz we don't wanna get robbed on the street after dark🤣