It seems to me that GDL has alot of the negative aspects of a big city... often times very noisy, polluted and like another blogger said very L.A.esque. While it does at times have a little more culture (to me) than cities like Mexico City, it is not far behind in the bad things as well... with the includsion of their Home Depots and DQs GDL is becoming more and more gringo esque by the day.