This week I took a trip downtown. Before I caught a preseason Lakers game at the Staples Center, I spent a lot of time outside in the downtown business district, including eating dinner at a local restaurant with my girlfriend.
The area is very upscale. Especially near the Staples Center, where the city has basically turned into an entertainment center, there are places that appeal to all different demographics. On the one hand, the area is filled with chain restaurants, chain stores that are designed to be not too expensive, looking to attract the normal middle class citizen. Things aren't that expensive but they are not unique and top quality either.
When you branch out a little further, you start finding the more upscale shops and restaurants surrounded by the tall business building skyscrapers. Also what you see in many downtown areas is a good amount of homeless population. They tend to dwell in these districts of cities because it's where the rich, higher income people spend their days, maybe more likely to give them more money.
Essentially, downtown gives you a wide array of things to see. All socioeconomic categories are represented in a fairly small geographic area.
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