southern Californians aren’t as into the virtue signaling yard signs as people in the DC area

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I ive on the westside and there’s aren’t many signs here, either. We don’t like signs cluttering up our lawns.

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Anonymous wrote:Sherman Oaks?!

Oh, OP. Sherman Oaks isn’t even Los Angeles much less Southern California.

And SoCal is quite conservative, no surprise there are less yard signs. OP could probably walk to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

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Anonymous wrote:Sherman Oaks?!

Oh, OP. Sherman Oaks isn’t even Los Angeles much less Southern California.

And SoCal is quite conservative, no surprise there are less yard signs. OP could probably walk to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

Not from Sherman Oaks! The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is in Simi Valley - like 30 miles away.

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Anonymous wrote:Sherman Oaks?!

Oh, OP. Sherman Oaks isn’t even Los Angeles much less Southern California.

And SoCal is quite conservative, no surprise there are less yard signs. OP could probably walk to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

Southern California is strictly liberal and always goes Democratic. There are pockets of Republicans/Conservatives in Orange County but Sherman Oaks is fairly liberal. Mostly white, Jewish, young families. The homes are cheaper in the Valley. Some very cool 1950’s twin homes.

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Anonymous wrote:Sherman Oaks?!

Oh, OP. Sherman Oaks isn’t even Los Angeles much less Southern California.

And SoCal is quite conservative, no surprise there are less yard signs. OP could probably walk to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

Southern California is strictly liberal and always goes Democratic. There are pockets of Republicans/Conservatives in Orange County but Sherman Oaks is fairly liberal. Mostly white, Jewish, young families. The homes are cheaper in the Valley. Some very cool 1950’s twin homes.

You have it backwards. It goes democratic but is not very liberal.

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Anonymous wrote:Sherman Oaks?!

Oh, OP. Sherman Oaks isn’t even Los Angeles much less Southern California.

And SoCal is quite conservative, no surprise there are less yard signs. OP could probably walk to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

Southern California is strictly liberal and always goes Democratic. There are pockets of Republicans/Conservatives in Orange County but Sherman Oaks is fairly liberal. Mostly white, Jewish, young families. The homes are cheaper in the Valley. Some very cool 1950’s twin homes.

You have it backwards. It goes democratic but is not very liberal.

I think it is generally liberal. I live on the west side (UCLA, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica) and it’s decidedly liberal. So are many of the east side neighborhoods.

Southern California encompasses the Claremont Colleges, USC, Occidental, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara ... all great and liberal colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:Sherman Oaks?!

Oh, OP. Sherman Oaks isn’t even Los Angeles much less Southern California.

And SoCal is quite conservative, no surprise there are less yard signs. OP could probably walk to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

Southern California is strictly liberal and always goes Democratic. There are pockets of Republicans/Conservatives in Orange County but Sherman Oaks is fairly liberal. Mostly white, Jewish, young families. The homes are cheaper in the Valley. Some very cool 1950’s twin homes.

You have it backwards. It goes democratic but is not very liberal.

Southern California is liberal, PP. Small l liberal but more than simply going Democratic.

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Anonymous wrote:Take a road trip over to Beverley Flats. You will see all the homeless encampments encircling Beverley Hills.

You don’t live here and have never seen homeless encampments. First it’s BEVERLY Hills and the Flats are the really expensive old home where Lucille Ball, Jimmy Stewart, Maureen O’Sullivan et al used to live. The homes in the Flats are from 10 to 30 million.

+1. Poster can’t even spell Beverly Hills and has clearly never been to the Flats.

+2. Beverly Hills Flats is where I want to live in my next life! The most beautiful neighborhood in Los Angeles.

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Anonymous wrote: Go home and make more money then come back to the west side of LA: Malibu, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Hollywood Hills. You’re in THE Valley, dude.

Dude. A lot of people live in the valley, even including celebrities, athletes, coaches and scores of hard working people who work in entertainment. I assure you that most people on DCUM would also live in the Valley if they lived in LA.

The Valley isn’t “LA”. Especially Van Nuys and Sherman Oaks. LA is Hollywood, the Hills, Beverly Hills, the beach, even downtown. The Valley is a different culture and class.

Omg, all of these DMV people opining on LA is….”lol”

OF COURSE Sherman Oaks is part of the City of Los Angeles. Do you live under a bridge?! Do you know what’s NOT Los Angeles? Beverly Hills. West Hollywood. Santa Monica .
Sherman Oaks is 💯 LA.
And it’s not exactly a shit box. It’s a fairly nice area. Most people here could not afford a home in Sherman Oaks. Yes, it’s hot in the summer.

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Anonymous wrote: Go home and make more money then come back to the west side of LA: Malibu, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Hollywood Hills. You’re in THE Valley, dude.

Dude. A lot of people live in the valley, even including celebrities, athletes, coaches and scores of hard working people who work in entertainment. I assure you that most people on DCUM would also live in the Valley if they lived in LA.

The Valley isn’t “LA”. Especially Van Nuys and Sherman Oaks. LA is Hollywood, the Hills, Beverly Hills, the beach, even downtown. The Valley is a different culture and class.

Omg, all of these DMV people opining on LA is….”lol”

OF COURSE Sherman Oaks is part of the City of Los Angeles. Do you live under a bridge?! Do you know what’s NOT Los Angeles? Beverly Hills. West Hollywood. Santa Monica .
Sherman Oaks is 💯 LA.
And it’s not exactly a shit box. It’s a fairly nice area. Most people here could not afford a home in Sherman Oaks. Yes, it’s hot in the summer.

You’re being to literal, PP, and calm down. Of course Sherman Oaks is in the city of Los Angeles. We’re saying it’s not quintessential Los Angeles.

And I do live in LA and not DC. And no one uses “lol” anymore (at least not in LA - maybe they do in the Valley).

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve been in the Sherman Oaks area (in the hills just north of Mulholland) for the whole week, and have been out and about every day, and in all our running around, we have seen literally one of the virtue-signal yard signs (BLM, “hate has no home here”, “all are welcome” etc) that dot about every third yard back home in Bethesda.

It’s very odd to not see these signs stuck all over the place like at home. But also very refreshing. I would’ve expected to see them everywhere here, since demographically/politically the neighborhoods are somewhat similar. But there is definitely much less of the shallow virtue signaling going on in southern CA than back home.

Everyone wears masks here, despite not being required to if you’re vaccinated. Either not many people are yet, or they’re maybe that’s how they virtue signal out here. I dunno. We aren’t wearing them, and get looks, but don’t care. We’ve all previously had covid and are vaccinated, and for us, it’s over and done with.

The locals are complaining about the heat. It’s about 95-100 in most places north of the mountains right now, but doesn’t feel nearly as hot as 90 does back home with humidity. I can see why people from CA hate our summers on the east coast. One thing I do notice is I seem to dehydrate much faster out here.

The traffic behavior on the freeways here makes DC traffic look like an etiquette class. There must be a tax break for miles-spent-tailgating and unsafe lane changes here. But off the freeways, surface street traffic is actually far more well-mannered than the DC area.


Way fewer police, too. Dramatically fewer. I didn’t realize how saturated we were with police at home until spending some time out here. No speed cameras or red light cameras, either, at least none that I’ve seen.

No deer either, which is nice, because you can go for a walk in the brush and not get covered in ticks, or drive someplace at night without constantly being ready for one to jump in front of your car.

But everything is dry, dead and some shade of yellow or brown here (unless it’s landscaped/watered). That’s a bit jarring to see if you’re used to everything in a park or trail being lush and green in the summer.


Interesting place to visit, but I don’t think I’d ever want to live here.

Hello!

I live in Sherman Oaks. If you’re in the hills area, then that connects to Bel Air lol. It’s mostly rich white people and many of them voted for Trump. Cross the boulevard into the non-rich part of Sherman Oaks and we have signs.

Everything is dry and dead because we have of 300 days of sunshine and we conserve water.

Our mask requirement ended on Tuesday and in stores it ended yesterday. Many stores still ask you to wear a mask.

Please don’t act like you know this area when clearly you don’t, and you’re literally in the rich white people area.

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Sherman Oaks again-

About the police, during BLM protests we had the national guard protecting our Great Lady of Cheesecake Factory (a neighborhood treasure) and Lord Starbucks in rich white sherman oaks, while just a few blocks away van nuys (and area for the poors) was destroyed by riots. But don’t worry, the hills were safe with the national guard!! There’s lots of police here in regular people Sherman oaks, just not where you are in the hills.. that connect to Bel Air lmao

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Anonymous wrote:Sherman Oaks?!

Oh, OP. Sherman Oaks isn’t even Los Angeles much less Southern California.

Hi from Sherman oaks!

We are LA, I voted for the mayor and we are part of LA county. You’re welcome for the lesson!!

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Anonymous wrote: Go home and make more money then come back to the west side of LA: Malibu, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Hollywood Hills. You’re in THE Valley, dude.

Dude. A lot of people live in the valley, even including celebrities, athletes, coaches and scores of hard working people who work in entertainment. I assure you that most people on DCUM would also live in the Valley if they lived in LA.

The Valley isn’t “LA”. Especially Van Nuys and Sherman Oaks. LA is Hollywood, the Hills, Beverly Hills, the beach, even downtown. The Valley is a different culture and class.

Omg, all of these DMV people opining on LA is….”lol”

OF COURSE Sherman Oaks is part of the City of Los Angeles. Do you live under a bridge?! Do you know what’s NOT Los Angeles? Beverly Hills. West Hollywood. Santa Monica .
Sherman Oaks is 💯 LA.
And it’s not exactly a shit box. It’s a fairly nice area. Most people here could not afford a home in Sherman Oaks. Yes, it’s hot in the summer.

You’re being to literal, PP, and calm down. Of course Sherman Oaks is in the city of Los Angeles. We’re saying it’s not quintessential Los Angeles.

And I do live in LA and not DC. And no one uses “lol” anymore (at least not in LA - maybe they do in the Valley).

I’m a different poster from the valley and unfortunately use lol.

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Anonymous wrote:Sherman Oaks?!

Oh, OP. Sherman Oaks isn’t even Los Angeles much less Southern California.

news to me! I used to live in Sherman Oaks. I guess sending my tax $$ to city of Los Angeles, sending my kids to LAUSD, voting for the LA mayor and city council...that was all just a figment of my imagination, huh.