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Where does the Westside start?
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G$
11 years, 6 months ago
West from Westwood & Century City South of the Santa Monica Mountains North from Venice Beach and parts of Culver ...
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j
11 years, 6 months ago
who cares really? why does it matter???
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BK
11 years, 6 months ago
Westside is the around the 405 and west. Bottom of the hills down to LAX
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Brian
11 years, 6 months ago
The Times is pretty much correct. The Westside is defined by orientation towards the ocean instead of towards "the city"; ...
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Patrick
11 years, 6 months ago
Anything west of Western.
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Dr. Eric Geffnr
11 years, 6 months ago
I was born here in 1965 and have lived on the westside for all but 10 years of my life, ...
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Joe
11 years, 6 months ago
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Jared
11 years, 6 months ago
The main border seems to be Overland or westwood maybe. Beverly Hills doesn't really seem to be westside.
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Mimi
11 years, 6 months ago
South of Mulholland to Jefferson and West of Fairfax to the Beach.
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MKD
11 years, 6 months ago
The westside starts at Westwood and goes to the beach. The Northern border is along the Santa Monica mountains. The ...
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Jon
11 years, 6 months ago
Who cares?
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MSK
11 years, 6 months ago
The Westside stops at Fairfax. A large portion of Beverly Hills and a small portion of Culver City is east ...
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ELA Dude
11 years, 6 months ago
Normally I'd consider anything west of the 110 to be the Westside. The Mulholland and Beverly Glen areas have much ...
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lolatoodles
11 years, 6 months ago
West of the 405, north of the 10, south of the Santa Monica mountains.
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Taysha Riggs
11 years, 6 months ago
Once you hit the mountains you're not on the Westside and too far past Han Park and you're into Ladera ...
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OG
11 years, 6 months ago
Westsiiiiiiiiiide!
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L.A. Native (Born 1976)
11 years, 6 months ago
Totally agree that the whole "debate" is petty snobbery. It seems that anywhere Caucasian folks live, or move to en ...
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Patrick J
11 years, 6 months ago
The Westside/Eastside division is based on perceived cultural affinities rather than official neighborhood boundaries. It's all about intuition. I wouldn't ...
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Jim
11 years, 6 months ago
It is obvious that the name "West side" literally means the West side of the 405. Probably was coined by ...
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Tommy
11 years, 6 months ago
Seems to me the 405/Sepulveda definition for the Westside is right on.
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Synthetrix
11 years, 6 months ago
THE west side.
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Kevin
11 years, 6 months ago
I'm pretty sure you have to include Westchester and Playa del Rey. I can't for the life of me understand ...
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fat pigeon
11 years, 6 months ago
LAX provides a "natural" break between the Westside and South Bay. And Topanga's in a world of it's own...
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FJ
11 years, 6 months ago
My thoughts on the matter, having lived in Los Angeles since 1994.
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Kooky
11 years, 6 months ago
The Westside definitely is west of Sepulveda, no matter how far up or down the coast you go.
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TheHiker
11 years, 6 months ago
The Westside is basically defined by having Mulholland at the North, The 405 as the east "Physical" boundary, Playa del ...
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CC
11 years, 6 months ago
Living on the true west side (Venice, Santa Monica, West LA) where I spent a lot of time is SO ...
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George G
11 years, 6 months ago
I'm going with Ethan Q, and bringing in the airport, and a little bit of West Hollywood, basically as far ...
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Alex
11 years, 6 months ago
The West Side includes some "lesser-than" communities Santa Monicans may sneer at but are STILL the westside ie. Marina del ...
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Jonathan
11 years, 6 months ago
It's all about the weather... If you notice the temp is just a few degrees cooler and you can feel ...
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majicman
11 years, 6 months ago
Since I lived on the Westside since I was eight (now 59) there is no doubt that the eastern boundary ...
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Scott
11 years, 6 months ago
I go with the 405 being the physical border.
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O
11 years, 6 months ago
The 405 was built in 1964 around the same time as the 10, so it's a made up border. The ...
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Stereotypes
11 years, 6 months ago
Not wasting my time making a map. Who really cares? This is the problem with the snobbery in Los Angeles, ...
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Drex
11 years, 6 months ago
You need to include the beachy slice of Playa del Rey, just inside the jetty, below the bluffs. It's easy. ...
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Ethan Q
11 years, 6 months ago
Whoever designed the original map rarely visits the area outside of it. The Westside begins at Laurel Canyon, heads down ...
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Robert
11 years, 6 months ago
West side is the west coast of NA which beats em all down.
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Billy
11 years, 6 months ago
West of the 405 at best. Most of the time it doesn't even make it there.
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Alex Zajac
11 years, 6 months ago
The Westside is defined loosely as being all land between the Santa Monica Mountains, the Pacific Ocean, LAX, and the ...
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Just Thinking
11 years, 6 months ago
Village Green was an expression of what Angelenos wanted as they moved West. It was Westside before there was one. ...
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Frank
11 years, 6 months ago
La Brea on the east to include LACMA, the Grove and the Fairfax district. The southside of the Santa Monica ...
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Nick
11 years, 6 months ago
La Cienega Blvd. is the eastern boundary, at least between Olympic and 3rd St. I commute on the bus from ...
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Anti-believer
11 years, 6 months ago
I think La Cienega is the border for east, Mulholland for north, Palisades/Beach for west and HWY 90 for south. ...
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Maja
11 years, 6 months ago
Seems to me the Westside is the Western portion of the basin and such should be the Palisades, Brentwood, Santa ...
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strangway
11 years, 6 months ago
Typical snobbery. LA is so diversified that claiming "Westside" heritage could mean you're everything from a poor immigrant to a ...
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jumbo_hamburger.dmg
11 years, 6 months ago
Wait, is it the westside of LA, or the westside of The World?
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DaBeat
11 years, 6 months ago
The Westside is bordered by Topanga on The West, Mulholland on The North, Beverly Hills and Culver City on The ...
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Marc
11 years, 6 months ago
Dont you need a passport to go to the other side of the 405? No seriously I know people that ...
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Jeremy
11 years, 6 months ago
The westside starts around Beverly Glen and goes to the ocean. It stops at the Palisades. Malibu is its own ...
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Chris N
11 years, 6 months ago
Man everyone wants to be a Westsider. But lets get realistic here and use some pretty logical geographic boundaries. So ...
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