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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
by 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 agoThis 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 agoI 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.