A tiny rant about "Cali" directed at noone on this board in particular but included to be helpful

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@mom2and Caltech NOT CalTech. No capital T.

My CA roommate always said she was from Orange County. It was her excuse for being a Republican.

As for what to see in LA? Yes it’s huge, but I could still easily come up with a list of must see stuff that’s in the city limits. (I’ve got another whole list for what to see in Pasadena and the surrounding areas!)

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Many of us call NYC “the City,” too, even with the capital C.

But, very sorry, ime, people who say Philly tended to be from “Jersey.”

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Good grief. That amazes me.

So true. The best Mexican food I’ve had outside of Mexico has been in South Carolina. Lots of Mexican immigrants there.

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I’d be surprised in anyone for sure could tell you what’s in the city of Los Angeles and not in the city of Los Angeles- go @mathmom - I’d love to hear your list!

We have 9 cities that are within the city limits of Los Angeles but not in Los Angeles, our city map looks like Swiss cheese- you have to cut out holes for San Fernando, Burbank, Universal City, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Culver City… and someplace else, I don’t even know…

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Oh, and Westwood… Westwood is not in Los Angeles, yet surrounded by Los Angeles, so UCLA is not in Los Angeles…l I think?

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@socalmom007 Westwood IS in the city of Los Angeles, as is UCLA.

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@Ynotgo I thought Turkish was the go-to food in Germany?

And no, German food isn’t terrible. You weren’t going to the right places. Or you’re a vegetarian. :slight_smile:

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I think Westwood is a “neighborhood”, but not a separate city. Businesses there have Los Angeles addresses.

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According to wiki:

"Westwood is a commercial and residential neighborhood in the northern central portion of the Westside region of Los Angeles, California. It is the home of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

The 2000 census found the forty-seven thousand people living in the neighborhood were generally young and moderately diverse ethnically, with a generally high level of income and education.

The neighborhood was developed after 1919, with a new campus of the University of California opened in 1926."

It is not a separate entity from Los Angeles.

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If you google the map of Los Angeles there’s a hole on the east side of Westwood for Beverly Hills, and a hole on the west side of Westwood… what is that?

I found it difficult to find any fresh vegetables in Germany, I’m not a full vegetarian, but I eat light. It was hard to find chicken at many restaurants, lots of sausage products.

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My Los Angeles list has all the usual suspects. Hollywood, Old Town, the LA Art Museum, the Watts Towers, the Getty, also the library (gorgeous) and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House. In Pasadena or nearby San Marino, the Gamble House, The Huntington Garden and Museum, the Norton Museum, Pasadena Playhouse. Also wander around the Caltech campus - one of the prettiest I know of - the old part was designed by Bertram Goodhue (who also did West Point in a very different style.)

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My son would be rendered nearly mute if not allowed to say the words dude and hella. When he calls me dude I remind him I’m his mother, not a dude. He will then start calling me Mood.

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I’ve never heard anyone say Cali that I can recall. But I’m wondering, could it have been the old 4-letter postal abbreviation?

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@Consolation No, the old postal abbreviation was Calif.

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Anyone from the DC Metro area on here?

If so, just wondering if you have noticed how the local news stations are suddenly calling the metro area The DMV? I only started noticing it a few months ago, mainly on WJLA/ABC but it really gets under my skin for some reason, as someone who grew up here. I attribute to more of the “dumbing down” of the news. As someone else pointed out, I wonder if it is a result of all the texting and abbreviating that goes on now. But really, you can’t say “the metro area” rather than The DMV? Just sounds so juvenile to me.

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What’s the V for? Virginia? DC Metro Virginia?

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DMV will always be the Dept of Motor Vehicles in my brain.

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DMV=Department of Motor Vehicles :smiley:

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@youcee

D = District
M =Maryland
V =Virginia

then, if you are over on the Eastern Shore, there is also “Delmarva” which is the peninsula that makes up the shore areas of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.

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I feel about “sconnies” for Wisconsinites the way the OP feels about Cali.