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For me, I live in two named neighborhoods:
SouthBeach in Miami Beach and Glenwood South in Raleigh.
I identify more with SouthBeach than Miami Beach and more with Raleigh than Glenwood South.
I think the neighborhood I live in, Hollywood, has many residents that identify more with the neighborhood than with Los Angeles - particularly older residents. Though secession was brought up on the ballot the same year the San Fernando Valley attempted to secede from LA - and lost by a wide margin in both the overall city and in Hollywood.
Speaking of the Valley, the individual neighborhoods (Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys, Northridge, Woodland Hills) out there often identify more with themselves than the city of LA.
I think the neighborhood I live in, Hollywood, has many residents that identify more with the neighborhood than with Los Angeles - particularly older residents. Though secession was brought up on the ballot the same year the San Fernando Valley attempted to secede from LA - and lost by a wide margin in both the overall city and in Hollywood.
Speaking of the Valley, the individual neighborhoods (Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys, Northridge, Woodland Hills) out there often identify more with themselves than the city of LA.
Yeah. Los Angeles has so many of these "non-city cities" that it's quite confusing to the outsider. For instance, how come West Hollywood is its own city while Hollywood isn't? On the face of it, it doesn't seem to make sense from the outside looking in.
Yeah. Los Angeles has so many of these "non-city cities" that it's quite confusing to the outsider. For instance, how come West Hollywood is its own city while Hollywood isn't? On the face of it, it doesn't seem to make sense from the outside looking in.
It is pretty confusing - and I am not a native so I'm not totally sure - but I believe West Hollywood was unincorporated county land even up into the 70s or 80s. When LA was a younger city in the early 20th century, the area that is West Hollywood was actually pretty far away from Los Angeles proper. LA grew by annexation quite a bit and annexed Hollywood at some point, but WeHo was not part of Hollywood proper either, so was left unincorporated until they decided to make themselves a city of their own.
When you look at the geography of LA it makes more sense why independent cities like Beverly Hills, Culver City, Inglewood, even Pasadena and Glendale sprang up where they did. They are sort of on the periphery of Los Angeles on the other side of mountains or across the valley - eventually the development of LA just enveloped these cities.
Culver City
Inglewood
Beverly Hills
West Hollywood - this one makes less, and as you can see from the strange boundaries, West Hollywood was made up of whatever unincorporated land was left between Hollywood (Los Angeles) and the independent city of Beverly Hills.
If my neighborhood had a brand, it would be the store brand.... Lower cost, but Some products just as good or better than the popular brands, others far inferior.
My neighborhood is branded as heck--so branded that real estate agents often claim houses several miles away are part of it. The local business association paid $50,000 to a design firm to come up with a logo, a right-angled squiggle which reminds most people of a driver looking for a place to park in our neighborhood. They also came up with a motto, taken from a Fleetwood Mac song, so some other folks (unpaid) made up one of their own.
My neighborhood is branded as heck--so branded that real estate agents often claim houses several miles away are part of it.
Yes, that's quite common. In the Cincinnati newspapers, you see apartments that physically are located in less-desirable neighborhoods listed as "Desirable Neighborhood, NR." It's quite comical.
My old house in Cincinnati was "NR" several more desirable neighborhoods, and bordered Indian Hill, which is the premier upper-crust suburb; I could see Indian Hill from my kitchen window. I told everyone I lived in Lower Indian Hill. Everyone got the joke, except those living in Indian Hill.
That looks more like a logo for Downtown Disney! Seriously...
Awful. And what a spectacle of a video.
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Everyone got the joke, except those living in Indian Hill.
