User blog comment:Sasquatch101/Liberty City vs. Los Santos. Which is better?/@comment-6029222-20131211113838

Los Santos (Los Angeles) as Liberty City (New York) has been overused in both GTA and gaming in general, as well as movies. While Los Angeles is also a common setting for games and movies, it is used nowhere near as much as New York. Both cities are rich with excellent detail, but due to excellent game design, Los Santos feels more alive, Liberty City felt alive too, but lazy game design (such as no Golf Carts at the Golf Course or the Police Maverick being spawning nowhere) ruined the immersion at times. For obvious reasons, the airport is also a much better place to visit in Los Santos (it was just dead space in Liberty City) and Los Santos also has more varied locations as it is not a concrete jungle (although it makes sense that Liberty City is a concrete jungle as New York City is also a concrete jungle). Liberty City, however, has more interiors and a better transit system (but who plays a game called Grand THEFT Auto to ride around on public transport). Since I haven't been to either Los Angeles or New York in real life (I live in Australia), I can only use google maps to compare the cities to their real life counterparts, and it seems that Los Santos is more accurate, Liberty City, however, is still accurate, but missing some details such as an elevated road leading up to Grand Easton Terminal (Grand Central Station).

Overall, Los Santos wins, Liberty City is still great, but lazy game design ruins it in some areas.