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Here's how Los Angeles doesn't measure up to Santa Monica in the eye of luxury hotel reviewer Melanie Nayer, writing at the Huffington Post.
Santa Monica is everything Los Angeles isn't: relaxed and refreshed, and full of boutique restaurants and hidden gems that offer a certain shelter from the chaos of everyday life, instead of the florescent [sic] spotlight that beats down on LA.
OK, I'm glad that's settled.