How much does it *really* matter nowadays which big city you move to if you want to enter the entertainment business? Do you have to still go to LA or can you go to Vancouver or Boston? With the internet having changed everything, would it be smarter to try and make a big buzz in a different city than LA than to compete with all the other people in LA? Does it really matter if a city has 3 million vs 4 million people?
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LA is the city for The Industry. Tons of TV studios that need crews and talent to work (in fact even more are opening), movies are shot on location but everything is stored in LA, all the major award shows, premiers, and parties take place in LA (tons of jobs created in these events), as well as many national conventions for corporations and business sectors (personally worked in a Hollywood event company for several years doing setup for these sorts of events and parties), all the big players like actors and directors live in LA, and all your auditions and jobs will be in LA. If you want any piece of action in the entertainment industry, from security to lighting sets to truck driving to acting, LA is still the place to be. Not even including the actor exploitation part like acting classes, choreography classes, and other stuff that take advantage of the tens of thousands of schmucks desperately trying to break into acting but never will. The SFV area is also the porn capitol of the world.
I'm not sure about the music industry, but I hear LA is still huge for it, too. LA and Nashville.