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06.03.20, 21:13 PM General Topics
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I know I may sound like an idiot, but can someone explain the format of LA to me? I've never been. I'm used to thinking about NYC/Boston etc. where there is the "city" and then suburbs around it. Does LA have a primary spot considered the city - Downtown LA, Hollywood, or something? And then Beverly Hills, Brentwood etc. are the suburbs around it? [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
General Topics 06.03.20, 09:13 PM Flag
 

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I've been through LAX once on the way to somewhere else, but never seen the actual area. But I remember some movie or TV show a long time ago (I forget which) had a line in it where a guy said "Los Angeles isn't a city. It's a bunch of small towns looking for a city." I've always thought of it that way ever since. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.03.20, 09:18 PM Flag
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It kind of is, and the city limits has other cities carved out of it and the city randomly stretches to places you would never expect it to (down to the port in San Pedro) [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.03.20, 11:13 PM Flag
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They are neighborhoods, not suburbs. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.03.20, 09:19 PM Flag
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Actually, Beverly Hill and Santa Monica are separate cities. They are in LA county, but not in the city of LA. So, for example, they are separate school systems. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.03.20, 09:25 PM Flag
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LA is like one giantic sprawling suburb. There is no real downtown center like in ny or Bostons [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.03.20, 09:28 PM Flag
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No, theres DTLA. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.03.20, 10:04 PM Flag
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There are several: Downtown and Century City, but also high rises in Westwood, Santa Monica, Pasadena, etc. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.04.20, 03:45 AM Flag
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There is a downtown LA ( DTLA) where places like city Hall, Disney Hall, Music Center, justice buildings, LA Live are. There must be almost 100 different neighborhoods in LA (Hollywood, Watts, Bel Air, etc.). There are about 80 cities within the country of LA, many of them considered are the suburbs. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.03.20, 10:10 PM Flag
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It’s all the city but to a New Yorker they all look like what we call suburbs. Except downtown. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.03.20, 10:57 PM Flag
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Downtown has offices, city admin and apartments but until recently it was pretty dead. The surrounding areas are considered neighborhoods or their own cities and I guess are more like suburbs in that they are mainly single family homes. Even the so called "bad' neighborhoods are a lot of single family homes as opposed to apartment buildings. But even while more akin to a suburb a lot of these places aren't really that suburban in feel, more like little cities within the city. I live in Manhattan Beach and it is very densely populated [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.03.20, 11:11 PM Flag
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How can you not have been to LA? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.04.20, 12:18 AM Flag
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I once worked a conference at the convention center and stayed in the Westin Boneventure - that to me seemed like the center of the "city" of LA - there wasn't much to it. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.04.20, 12:44 AM Flag
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It's changed a lot in the last ten or so years. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.04.20, 01:42 AM Flag
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Big, polluted, traffic sprawl. Imagine if you considered Queens, Long Island, NJ and Staten Island all as part of NYC - during rush hour. That is LA. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.04.20, 01:02 AM Flag
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but with more physical beauty [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.04.20, 01:34 AM Flag
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LA County is 88 cities. Los Angeles proper is large and sprawling so suburban landscapes are actually in the city itself. But there is a downtown and clear areas of LA itself. East vs. West is the biggest distinction, but South LA is also its own neighborhood. Silverlake, Atwater, Eagle Rock are East. Venice and Sawtelle are West. Santa Monica is its own city, like Beverly Hills, Compton, or Pasadena. Think of LA as a bowl rimmed with mountains and open on one side to the Pacific ocean. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.04.20, 01:34 AM Flag
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^^^don't confuse the East side or Northeast LA (NELA) for East LA, which is its own city. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.04.20, 03:43 AM Flag
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^^^ and South Central is the older name (don't use it) for South LA [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.04.20, 03:46 AM Flag
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