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Where does the Westside start?

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Howard
  11 years, 6 months ago
West of Robertson Blvd, North of the Santa Monica Freeway. Similar to part of the boundaries of the area compromised ...
Robert
  11 years, 6 months ago
Basically, Mulholland to the north, Santa Monica Fwy to the south, and La Cienega Blvd. to the east--I'm pretty much ...
Ian
  11 years, 6 months ago
West of La Cienega, North of LAX, South of Mulholland
Lolys
  11 years, 6 months ago
As far as I am concerned, any other area is not the Westside...AND, all the obnoxious people in the city ...
Amanda Taft
  11 years, 6 months ago
West of the 405, north of the 10.
Em
  11 years, 6 months ago
West LA and Westside aren't the same thing. Mulholland to the north. Topanga to the west. The 405 to the ...
glenn s.l.
  11 years, 6 months ago
Do away with the name Eastside and Westside and use the L.A. river as boundary. Where the LA river flows ...
SaMo Born and Bred
  11 years, 6 months ago
Sunset to the north; La Cienega to east; SM Fwy to the south.
CREO
  11 years, 6 months ago
Much smaller and more obtuse than the Times map, but like LA itself, hard to define.
Anthony.Haywood
  11 years, 6 months ago
Just a reminder there's a big difference between the west-side and west LA !
julia
  11 years, 6 months ago
Using neighborhoods as the qualifier vs. street boundaries: Malibu, close-in, beach-side, not the hinterlands, Santa Monica, Venice, Marina Del Rey, ...
Armando
  11 years, 6 months ago
In the city of Los Angeles there are two avenues that might be over looked, but have a certain significance ...
David
  11 years, 6 months ago
Los Angeles born and raised. Sunset to the North, Robertson to the East, 90 Fwy to the South, the beaches ...
Brian
  11 years, 6 months ago
Here is the official line. South of Sunset. West of la Cienega. North of Jefferson and Slauson. End of story.
Thomas Sullivan
  11 years, 6 months ago
It's the City of LA west of Beverly Hills to include Culver City and the Marina, Sta. Monica and the ...
Susie
  11 years, 6 months ago
I always thought the Westside was a MUCH smaller area, and definitely didn't include Beverly Hills or Bel Air, for ...
Jackie
  11 years, 6 months ago
North of the 10, west of the 405 all up to Malibu
MrWestside.com
  11 years, 6 months ago
Beverly Hills to Pacific Palisades to Marina del Rey
nealb
  11 years, 6 months ago
I think you need to gauge the Westside by how snotty drivers can be, whether they can afford the Escalades ...
TR
  11 years, 6 months ago
the hills are not westside, they are the hills. While west hollywood sort of fits socially as being west-side, it ...
b martins
  11 years, 6 months ago
I am a LA native. Grew up in the Valley. (pre Zappa) Westside has always been west of 405 north ...
Bill
  11 years, 6 months ago
Back in the 60's I worked in South Central. When a client would tell us that they were moving say ...
Transplated Woman
  11 years, 6 months ago
Can't go east of Westwood and still be considered Westside in my opinion.
Richard
  11 years, 6 months ago
Anything west of the 110 freeway should be encapsulated by the west side. People are simply rejecting the Pico area ...
kctinla
  11 years, 6 months ago
i used to live in s. monica and also the larchmont area; to me then westside meant west l.a. and ...
Bob Greenwald
  11 years, 6 months ago
It truly is a state of mind. However, I moved the boundary east to include the Farmers Mkt, the Grove ...
Ray
  11 years, 6 months ago
goes pass the 105 to Rosecrans to the beach...
Diego
  11 years, 6 months ago
The 405 to the water. If you go more than a little into the Hills to the north you went ...
Nancy
  11 years, 6 months ago
There is more to the Westside then just a physical border. There is a social and economic border also. As ...
Carl
  11 years, 6 months ago
Since a kid, "westside" has always meant to me the area bound inside the 10 , 405 and Brentwood/Palisades to ...
Jenni
  11 years, 6 months ago
Just along the coastal beach and a few miles inland, but cities along the coast: Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, ...
Bo
  11 years, 6 months ago
Many Angelinos wish they could live on the Westside. But alas life is not fair.
Brian
  11 years, 6 months ago
There. That's it. If people live in Brentwood, Beverly Hills, or Bel Air they'll be sure to let you know, ...
Paul
  11 years, 6 months ago
Beverly Hills and the rest of the hills are definitely not the Westside, just where rich people who wish they ...
Starwatcher
  11 years, 6 months ago
Since the Westside is more a state of mind and up-scale, it doesn't include some areas and the boundary moves.. ...
Richard
  11 years, 6 months ago
The Westside begins, and ends, just beyond the end of your nose. Westsiders do not see beyond it, not unlike ...
bruce edward nelson
  11 years, 6 months ago
There is no westside The whole LA basin is the darkside
Charlie
  11 years, 6 months ago
A place where the traffic is bad, the people pretentious, and the strip malls are plentiful.
John
  11 years, 6 months ago
I mostly agree the others, generally west of La Cienega...BTW: Most ardent "westsider" are usually non-native Angelenos (entertainment industry refugee ...
Ragusa
  11 years, 6 months ago
West of 405, North of the Marina, and South of Sunset.
Robert Rowbotham
  11 years, 6 months ago
The Westside is bounded by the 405. The temperature, the breeze and no-smog all exist west of the 405. The ...
Rick
  11 years, 6 months ago
"The Westside" is a global concept that includes the entire "west side" of the L.A. area, plus the adjacent cities ...
Jill
  11 years, 6 months ago
Sorry all wannabes the Westside is a small pocket between the 10, 405 and about Sunset.
Mr. MidWest
  11 years, 6 months ago
You crazy Californians ... don't you have anything better to do?
Eastender
  11 years, 6 months ago
I'd describe the westside to an out-of-towner as the place you'd like to visit quickly, and then drive away to ...
R3739
  11 years, 6 months ago
As a westside realtor for over 30 yrs. this is how I define it.
joan
  11 years, 6 months ago
What a snotty comment which reveals this paper's drawn dividing line: "not everyone can live on the westside," so ends ...
bryce
  11 years, 6 months ago
I don't really consider mountains part of westside, maybe 405 corridor up to Getty. Along with Venice & Marina del ...
Liz
  11 years, 6 months ago
This is my Westside, lived in Venice, WLA and Culver City all my life. This map is my experience of ...
Michael
  11 years, 6 months ago
I'm a fourth generation westsider. Douglas field to the south, hills to the north, end of the fog in May ...
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