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Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia
Suburbs = tracts of homes build outside of a city to house people working in that city.
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Not necessarily, there have also been suburbs built for industrial purposes. Examples in L.A. County: Vernon, Commerce, Irwindale, Industry. I'm not even going to get into suburbs built around a particular industry which were essentially built as "company towns" (that would describe the origins of a large amount of L.A.'s suburbs)
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Long Beach is not a suburb of LA. Long Beach did not spring up to house downtown LA's workers. Long Beach and many other older towns in the LA basin have their own downtowns, histories, and even suburbs. Over time everything has grown together into one big mass. If you're going to call Long Beach a suburb of LA, you may as well throw in Santa Ana, Huntington Beach, Fullerton, etc.
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Agreed Long Beach started out as a completely separate city and is not a suburb of L.A. any more than Oakland is a suburb of S.F. or Jersey City is a suburb of N.Y. Unlike Oakland or Jersey City, however, there's no water in between L.A. and L.B. which is why some people might be confused. If Long Beach were in any county in California OTHER than L.A. County it would be the dominant city in its county.
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