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I didn't say from the edge of Los Angeles, but from Los Angeles. As a native when someone tells me they live in Los Angeles, that means Los Angeles, no one fro

• pests 3y ago
  This seems opposite of the Detroit area where anyone in the Metro Detroit/Tri-County area (over 200 municipalities) will say they are from Detroit.
  • wink 3y ago
    Maybe because every person worldwide who watched a couple of movies or series knows at least one LA neighborhood by name and zero for Detroit ;)
  • Aloha 3y ago
    Where would you tell someone from Michigan where you're from?
• Moto7451 3y ago
  As someone who grew up in North Hollywood and lived there for 30 years, I’m not really sure how you came to your conclusion. You might tell another local you’re from Pacoima, but someone from Ohio doesn’t know what or where that is. You’d tell people in general you’re from Los Angeles. I certainly do. Within the sprawl it’s important to share the neighborhood, lest you keep someone guessing on which of the 43 miles of Sepulveda Blvd you’re referring to. Even Disneyland, which is very solidly in Orange County, is “in Los Angeles” to non locals. This gravitational pull lead to the silly renaming of the Angles baseball team to “Los Angeles Angeles of Anaheim.” This is roughly as silly as moving the Mets to New Jersey and naming them, “The New York Mets of Hoboken.” A lot of Los Angeles’ neighborhoods are exactly that. The names come and go with whatever planning mechanisms exist. North Hollywood was formerly “Lankershim” after the founding company and before that “Toluca.” Functionally “North Hollywood” was a marketing campaign for the area due to the rise of the completely non-bordering Hollywood. At most these neighborhoods get to form councils to promote the area. They have little authority and autonomy outside of helping grow a farmers market here and a cultural event there.
  • scythe 3y ago
    This is a definitely learned response. Growing up in northern Palm Beach County, we never described ourselves as being from Miami. It was far away! And expensive! ¡Y solo podemos hablar un poco de español! But after traveling here and there for work and giving long explanations of where I was from — "oh, [town]? Where's that?" "It's about an hour and a half north of Miami" — I just gave up. I'm from Miami. I had no choice in the matter. And when I went to Italy, I was from Miami. "Oh, I've been there. It's very nice."
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  • jghn 3y ago
    I think most people in most places scale their responses based on to whom they're speaking. I grew up about in the greater metro area of a large northeastern city. Now I live across the river from said city, technically a different city but still part of its urban core. In both cases when describing where I live to a local I use the actual location. When talking to someone further away I default to the city name. If they then express some reason why they may know the area a bit I zoom in to my location.
  • catlover76 3y ago
    > As someone who grew up in North Hollywood and lived there for 30 years, I’m not really sure how you came to your conclusion. You might tell another local you’re from Pacoima, but someone from Ohio doesn’t know what or where that is. You’d tell people in general you’re from Los Angeles. I certainly do. Yeah, but to people within southern California, we would expect you to say you are from The Valley.
• gamblor956 3y ago
  As a native when someone tells me they live in Los Angeles, that means Los Angeles, no one from San Pedro or The Valley would tell you Los Angeles. As a native of Los Angeles, when someone tells me Los Angeles, that means they live somewhere south of Ventura and north of San Diego. I've had other SoCal natives tell me LA when they actually live in Pasadena, or Long Beach, or Irvine, or Chino Hills, or Rancho Cucamonga, or a plethora of other cities that aren't even in LA County. LA natives don't usually start with their neighborhood unless it's contextually appropriate to the conversation, such as when talking to another LA native/local who would actually understand the geographic reference. Outside of a few well-known neighborhoods like Hollywood, non-Angelenos wouldn't know what you're talking about if you said "San Pedro" or "Boyle Heights." On a pedantic note, "the Valley" usually refers to San Fernando Valley if you're in LA County, but is also used to refer to Santa Clarita Valley by locals there, and to San Gabriel Valley if you're east of LA in Pasadena, San Bernardino County, or Orange County. In Ventura County, "the Valley" means Simi Valley.In Riverside County, "the Valley" refers to Jurupa Valley and Moreno Valley depending on which side of the county you're in. Using "the Valley" to refer exclusively to San Fernando is a Hollywood thing and signifies that the speaker is either from San Fernando Valley (which is usually already apparent from their accent) or isn't an LA native and doesn't know any better.
  • catlover76 3y ago
    As an Orange County native who spent some years living in Los Angeles, people from Long Beach, Irvine, Chino Hills, or Rancho Cucamonga saying they are from "LA" is ridiculous and shouldn't be tolerated or encouraged lol
    • Aloha 3y ago
      Thank You - and I'll go on from what you said here - it was unheard of! Having grown up in Los Alamitos, where I tell people I grew up depends on where they're from, I'll break down the rules - From outside the US: Southern California or "LA Area" From the US but not the California: "LA Area" or Southern California California: "Near Long Beach" or North Orange County Southern California and Adjacent: North Orange County or Los Alamitos Orange County: Los Alamitos