Rachel DeMita, sports personality and ex-college basketball player, rails against 'soul draining' Los Angeles

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Rachel DeMita, a sports personality who currently hosts the "Courtside Club" podcast and is a former college basketball player, railed against the cost of living in Los Angeles.

DeMita played college basketball at Old Dominion University and took off as an on-air host when she worked for 2K Sports and Overtime, among others. She also participated in a few celebrity basketball games in the lead-up to the NBA All-Star Game.

But like many Americans, the cost of living for her in Los Angeles – where there may be more opportunity in that field – was just too high. She posted a TikTok video on Sunday going over how she was able to make it in the city with expenses as high as they are.

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Rachel DeMita poses during the NBA Awards Show on June 25, 2018\, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. (Jennifer Pottheiser/NBAE via Getty Images)

"I don’t know how did it. I don’t know how I lasted nine years in this city," she said. 

DeMita said she moved to Los Angeles in 2012 and decided in 2020 to move to Texas, as she realized during the coronavirus pandemic that Los Angeles just "wasn’t for me anymore."

"I’m back here now for work and every time I’m here I feel like it gets harder and harder for me to be here. It’s like the minute I touch down is the minute I wanna get the f--- out," she said. "I don’t know how else to describe it but… soul draining.

"I feel an entire energy shift. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve grown up a little bit. My priorities have changed. Everything is really expensive here like for no reason."

Aside from the traffic in and around the Los Angeles area,