Yesterday in a voice call someone asked me if I lived near where the LAPD basically bombed a neighborhood with fireworks, and I looked it up and said something like "oh that's south LA, like 30 miles away from me"
Love living in a city where not-even-the-northernmost-part is 30 miles away from not-even-the-southernmost-part
Update: for funsies I decided to use the google maps measurement tool; I was actually pretty close, the northernmost part where people actually live (Sylmar) to the southern part of the "mainland" (Lynwood) is about 30 miles. For those who don't know, the official city of LA is almost gerrymandered, because south of that there's a narrow sliver only a few blocks wide that surrounds the freeway down to San Pedro/Long Beach, which are also officially part of the City of LA. Measuring from the absolute northernmost part of the city (5/14 freeway split) to the port, you can get a line of up to 45 miles as the crow flies! Though I think at points you'll be going over non-LA areas
Edit: Also that's basically just the length of Sepulveda Blvd which runs next and parallel to the 405 lol
Yesterday in a voice call someone asked me if I lived near where the LAPD basically bombed a neighborhood with fireworks, and I looked it up and said something like "oh that's south LA, like 30 miles away from me"
Love living in a city where not-even-the-northernmost-part is 30 miles away from not-even-the-southernmost-part
Heading south on I-5, you'll pass a "San Diego City Limits" sign, and not long after that you'll see a sign saying "San Diego - 21 miles."
Update: for funsies I decided to use the google maps measurement tool; I was actually pretty close, the northernmost part where people actually live (Sylmar) to the southern part of the "mainland" (Lynwood) is about 30 miles. For those who don't know, the official city of LA is almost gerrymandered, because south of that there's a narrow sliver only a few blocks wide that surrounds the freeway down to San Pedro/Long Beach, which are also officially part of the City of LA. Measuring from the absolute northernmost part of the city (5/14 freeway split) to the port, you can get a line of up to 45 miles as the crow flies! Though I think at points you'll be going over non-LA areas
Edit: Also that's basically just the length of Sepulveda Blvd which runs next and parallel to the 405 lol