Who calls the 5 county region "L.A."?

[Californiaguy2007]

I'll admit i'm one of those who call the 5 county area as L.A or Greater L.A,mostly because L.A is the largest city in the region and the most influential and also more well known by most people.

[Jay100]

Originally Posted by 69Charger

A lot of people say "I'm going to L.A." and then people ask "oh what are you going to do there?" And they say, "See Hollywood, go to the beach and Disneyland, etc..."

OK well a lot of this region is not "L.A.", that is a city in and of itself, but it is the Los Angeles metro area. The metro area is Ventura to Redlands, Santa Clarita to San Clemente. So a lot of traveling to SoCal isn't going to L.A., it's going to SoCal.

I've lived here many years, was not born here, but admit when I moved here I "moved to L.A." yet never lived there. Over the years I've been to literally every suburb in this 5 county region, everything from a son in the Navy in Port Hueneme, the Mission Inn light festival in Riverside at Christmas, family with a San Clemente beach house, downtown San Bernaghetto, Lake Elsinore, Highland Park, Westminster, I mean I can't think of a place I have not been. But after living here, I see now why the other cities are not L.A. yet from the outside it is.

get over it! It's LA. People don't come to "Southern CA" to see little ol Vista, or Temecula or Rialto or Oxnard. They come to be near the big city and all that it offers.