[DidYaWipe]

When I think "dreary," I don't think about weather. I think about ugly-ass environs.

That's why I looked at the map, saw L.A. in a red zone, and thought huh there might be something to this.

[anthomtb]

I am not sure you are interpreting the map correctly. The red-brown tones are less-dreary, while bright red is more-dreary. L.A. is squarely in the less-dreary area. See also the numerical rankings.

Your point stands though. L.A. is one fugly city.

[DidYaWipe]

I didn't make any attempt to interpret it correctly. I saw a map purporting to measure dreariness, and on it a lot of red around L.A.

Given that red usually connotes "the most of" whatever the map is supposed to show, it struck me as consistent with my experience.

[madcaptenor]

It's harder to throw together an index of fugliness based on public data, though.

[anthomtb]

Actually, this sounds like a great use for an LLM or even boring old machine classification. I am sure Prague and Beautiful are commonly found a few tokens apart in a training set of say, TripAdvisor forums. While "LA"/"Los Angeles" and "ugly" are likely to be similarly co-located.

[DidYaWipe]

I'd hope so.

Just the other day I saw tourists trudging around on Hollywood Boulevard, which is a major shithole. I thought that I can't believe these people aren't deeply disappointed but afraid to admit it.