LA LA LAND- like Japan?

Arrving in LA was easy ..... immigration was a breeze:)The immigration i swear was Flirting with me he was preety hot for a governmnet official... actually theres something about men in uniform:) anyways after all the build up i think i must of looked aprahensive as he was really nice and relaxed which made life great.. i got warned that it would be tough but no it was simple took a total of three minutes. only question what job and i just said i was heading to san francisco,then i gota big ohh...:)I got asked how much money i had nad got ttold " you need more money then that... well ive survived pretty welll so far! ive seen a fair bit. Anyways i then hheaded to the hacienda hotel where orientation fo rthe work/travel participants to honest i was more keen to travel around and not stay in any one place only when i was typing my assignmnet and using resources at the local university/public library...Which i have now chosen to be san diego. due to its relaxed atmosphere, safety, affordablity and good bus routes. People say its no good here buts its way easier to get around san diego then LA apart from when you use the metro which is fabulous. After a meet and greet a bunch of us went to venice beach where we had lunch... we tipped well really really bad. The guy shooked his head we diidnt realise it was 15% of the bill . 15%! that is way too hhigh for average service...arrah i cant stand the tipping culture the US has its terriable to me its just the government not taking responsibily. like everyhing. need i say more.. many travellers have this view point. Iam the worst tipper i only tip in large groups or a fancy restaurant where im foced to anyway or if iam at a bar using Wif im there for hours and trhe barman refills my drink for free countless then he will get a buck or so.so basically i avoid the fancy restaurants and only tip minimal in large groups.I think if people start to boycott tipping then there will be strikes and then the government will be foced to up the up the wages. It annopys me that im paying these peoples wages especially since im not an american citizen.capatilism, consumerism. America remind sme of japan ESPECIALLY LA> Superficial, plastic, false, surface, laccks depth people cant be themselves but fun also. Exactly like japan well tokyo at least.Bloody hell materalistic and cosummer society everyone has their designer
bags which as so dam ugly, brands are huge here excatly like
jaapan. except the japanese are better with money i think. people say tehre are broke then they buy $500 worth of stuff what the hell? the amount of stuff peopel buy is crazy and the amount of food. Then they just chuck it awayor take it home in a tcky doggy bag the last time i did that i was 12 years old.
Anyways i really liked venice beach bough some awesome sunglasses it was funny i saw them on a stand and within 10seconds i picked them up. People said wow thats decisive and i was like nah its intuition i just knew they would suit me!
We had some funny people coming up to us saying "can you buy this painting for a dollar so i can buy some weed. and holding signs smiling " give me money as im going to rob you anyway" it was all quite amuzing, iconnic guy on rollar blades and playing a electric guitar, a model standing next a guy holding a gigantic lizard, a guy playinga piano... it was like how did he roll it down here.

Anyways everything looked familiar like scenes of baywatch an lifeguard towers. Went back to the hotel and then i went to the mall in el segundo and went looking for a adaptor for my laptop, talked to soem LA locals who were very entertaining:)
i found the mall pretty borin and bland it was near manhatten beach probably for the richies,The next day i had a lovely free breakfast and there was orientation about life in USA and working/travelling in the USA the IRS came and we filled out a social security documents ands so on. Then i packed up my stuff and waited for a friend who lives in LA for a day out.

LA is great everyone bags it i would never live there perm but to visit or to do casual work it sure is fun place:)never a dull moment.