{"id":264021,"date":"2026-04-12T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264021\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:13:08","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-transplants-arent-the-only-ones-navigating-the-dating-scene-in-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/264021\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Transplants aren\u2019t the only ones navigating the dating scene in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: I very much enjoyed reading guest contributor Amy Getubig\u2019s piece (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2026-04-09\/dating-los-angeles-women-picky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWomen aren\u2019t too picky to date. They just don\u2019t need men to feel fulfilled,\u201d<\/a> April 9). I certainly do not question her experiences, but two things did pop out to me.<\/p>\n<p>First, she brings up a clich\u00e9: \u201cLos Angeles is a city built on reinvention. People come here to create something.\u201d This isn\u2019t really the experience for the broad swath of people who were born in L.A. and whose social circles also comprise people who were born here.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, people from other parts of the country do come here to reinvent. But as someone who grew up here, my friends who felt a strong need to reinvent also moved away to places like San Francisco, Seattle, New York City and Portland, Ore. I\u2019m sure Getubig\u2019s statement is true for a large number of transplants, but it doesn\u2019t really explain Los Angeles to anyone who isn\u2019t part of that transplant group.<\/p>\n<p>I found her other insights compelling and intriguing. However, there seems to be a generalization made. There are both men and women who might want relationships, but whose life experience is very different because of age. Men and women in their mid-20s and men and women in their late 30s and early 40s are living very different lives and are in very different places in becoming who they are. It\u2019s not a one-size-fits-all thing.<\/p>\n<p>I would think that more nuanced explanations would be welcome after reading this very good first step at explaining the present situation.<\/p>\n<p>Jerome Vered, Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I very much enjoyed reading guest contributor Amy Getubig\u2019s piece (\u201cWomen aren\u2019t too picky to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2072,9576,48,52,51,1838,47,50,49,63,1555,2369,115800,93420,592,1410,130,2489,7853,48070,1557],"class_list":{"0":"post-264021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-editor","9":"tag-experience","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-news","13":"tag-letter","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","16":"tag-los-angeles-news","17":"tag-los-angeles-times","18":"tag-man","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-only-one","21":"tag-other-part","22":"tag-people","23":"tag-place","24":"tag-portland","25":"tag-scene","26":"tag-seattle","27":"tag-transplant","28":"tag-woman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}