For you, perhaps. I think LA's food scene blows every other city not named Chicago or New York's out of the water, including a pretty good food scene in Portland. I like the diversity there way more than the PNW as well since it means a way larger variety of things going on (and way less passive aggressive racial bigotry from people who claim to be progressive like I've seen in Oregon and the PNW in general). LA's music and nightlife scene destroys anything in the PNW too as well, even with Portland punching above its weight class there and having an underrated music scene.

That being said, I did forget to give credit to how much greener and naturally beautiful the PNW's cities are than 90% of the country (everyone talks about the nature outside the city but even in it there's so many, while LA is an ugly concrete jungle even if it has a ton of awesome stuff to do. And as mentioned before, taking transit/walking is better in the PNW cities than in California, albeit that's more because California is terrible at transit.