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Where does the Westside start?

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Carolina L
  11 years, 6 months ago
Where you still feel at least some ocean breezes, and feel a vibe of success.
Michael
  11 years, 6 months ago
West of the 405, the 10 to the Santa Monica Mountains, does NOT include Palisades or Malibu.
pconstant
  11 years, 6 months ago
UCLA and a bit of Westwood west of Beverly Glen is all that's east of the 405. Sunset is the ...
Duley
  11 years, 6 months ago
Here is my take. A wee bit south of the 10, 405 on the east, and Sunset on the north.
Alan
  11 years, 6 months ago
THIS is the Westside
Annie
  11 years, 6 months ago
Natural cutoffs: the 405, the 10, the mtns. Remember the saying... "There is no life east of Sepulveda"?
BillyB
  11 years, 6 months ago
I live in Westchester and have always thought of it as part of West LA. I think LAX is a ...
Havrilesky
  11 years, 6 months ago
Needs to extend south to PV
Allen
  11 years, 6 months ago
Defining it by feel, as the area grows and changes, ebbs and flows. I think of it as middle class, ...
Paul Smythe
  11 years, 6 months ago
I think of Montana as the main commercial artery of the Westside. I would include most of Santa Monica, but ...
F414
  11 years, 6 months ago
I would say not much of it is on the East side of the 405. Beverly Hills is not West ...
Eric
  11 years, 6 months ago
The main dividing line between the Eastside and Westside is La Brea. Then west of Fairfax at the end of ...
Jason
  11 years, 6 months ago
This is it.
Phil
  11 years, 6 months ago
As a near 50-year resident of the area, I've come to believe its basically the area bound by Sunset Blvd ...
directionboy1
  11 years, 6 months ago
The true westside from the early 60"never went further south than Venice , 405 on the east, Sunset Blvd on ...
C Medina
  11 years, 6 months ago
Born and lived here my wholeife. When I was a little boy my mom told me the westside was from ...
ray
  11 years, 6 months ago
the west is the pacific ocean and anything east of the pacific is the east as simple as that the ...
Artsy Gal
  11 years, 6 months ago
The Westside is not some massive blob some would like to make it.
Erin Miller
  11 years, 6 months ago
As a 7th gen Angelena who grew up in Windsor Square, the Crenshaw District & Hermosa Beach, the idea that ...
Edith
  11 years, 6 months ago
Here goes my take. Area bound by the 405, 10, Sunset and Ocean.
mr trail safety
  11 years, 6 months ago
1/West of the 405 2/Bev Hills poodles live in their own whirled, as do the Culver City peeps. 3/I'd describe ...
Lee
  11 years, 6 months ago
It's kinda like this.
Bernie
  11 years, 6 months ago
Pretty interesting everyone wants to hitch onto the Westside title.
jmac
  11 years, 6 months ago
traffic dictates all. the 405 is like a wall, whether you live west of it and wish you could travel ...
Ron
  11 years, 6 months ago
With the exception of maybe the Westwood area, the Westside is strictly West of the 405.
The Fife
  11 years, 6 months ago
The first question is "Where is the city?" We don't have a viable "City Center" so we have no real ...
Brian
  11 years, 6 months ago
Theres no way the westside extends into the santa monica mountains!
tony
  11 years, 6 months ago
west of lincoln....ask the westside rental man.....
Luis Franco
  11 years, 6 months ago
Obviously it ends at the corner of pretentious and overrated. Is it any wonder people don't pay to read this ...
shmoe
  11 years, 6 months ago
Old: Geographically and financially West of the 405 and North of the 10. New: A state of mind. I saw ...
Jason
  11 years, 6 months ago
I would not include Beverly Hills in "Westside." Not sure about Bel Air and the Palisades, but I guess so.
Jennifer
  11 years, 6 months ago
Who cares? Other then nice beaches the "Westside" is the most boring part of Los Angeles.
Jess royall
  11 years, 6 months ago
the west side is the west end of town. santa monica and venice.
jude
  11 years, 6 months ago
I have lived just west of downtown for 20 years, Westlake/Pico Union. In our neighborhood, west is anything west of ...
Danny
  11 years, 6 months ago
West of La Cienaga, North of Culver City, South of Pacific Palisades, Marina del Rey is included.
J. Siata
  11 years, 6 months ago
The Westside is West of the 405 and North of the Marina Del Rey Freeway. It's bound at the North ...
Westside Reg
  11 years, 6 months ago
I have lived on the "westside" since 1975. At that time, the "westside" ended at the 405 to the East, ...
Mark Brown
  11 years, 6 months ago
Generally, anything west of La Cienega I consider the "westside". I live near Santa Monica Blvd and the 405, and ...
Sophia
  11 years, 6 months ago
Westside for the real Westsiders!
jana
  11 years, 6 months ago
Where do most residents of an area generally shop, eat and play? Do you head for the 3rd street Prom., ...
Kevin, Ocean Park
  11 years, 6 months ago
You're dreamin if you live in east culver and you think you're on the west side. The westside has a ...
Felix
  11 years, 6 months ago
Whats with all these community wannabes? Simpy put the Westside is west of the freeway!
Sandy
  11 years, 6 months ago
To me the "Westside" can only be defined as West of the 405, a barrier many of us rarely need ...
Kev
  11 years, 6 months ago
So when is this survey going to end and we can tally the results?
Bwood
  11 years, 6 months ago
La Cienega on the East, Olympic on the South (east of the 405) Pico on the South (west of the ...
Chris G
  11 years, 6 months ago
I think the dividing line is La Brea. To the west of La Brea is the westside. To the east ...
Ellen
  11 years, 6 months ago
Yes the world does end at the 405 as far as the Westside is concerned. So to me the 405 ...
Victoria
  11 years, 6 months ago
My map represents the "westside" to me. It doesn't include Beverly Hills or Culver City, because they are areas which ...
jcp
  11 years, 6 months ago
It all depends on what's West of you. Those who live West of the 405 think the world ends at ...
Donna
  11 years, 6 months ago
The "westside" implies how nice your neighborhood is. So if you live in a nice, expensive neighborhood that associates itself ...
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