where is the border line for "the west side" (Los Angeles: transplants, neighborhood)

[disgruntled la native]

Originally Posted by Harrier

Which parts are those?

The Hollywood Hills and the area close to Runyon Canyon. But I take it back, nobody would mistake those areas with the Westside. I think by anyone's definition the Westside ends at La Cienega, maybe at most Fairfax/La Brea, but may extend a little bit to Hancock Park/Windsor Square.

thelopez: you may have been tired but you still left them out. gotta be precise when describing things.

[yby1]

Originally Posted by disgruntled la native

There's more than one answer for this. I think most would say La Cienega. La Cienega is the eastern border of Beverly Hills and Culver City (I know a small amount of BH goes to San Vicente and a small amount of CC goes to Fairfax, but generally speaking), which are the two easternmost westside cities. The most tony, westside part of WeHo also stretches to La Cienega. At La Cienega are the last bastions of westside culture like the Beverly Center and Cedars.

La Cienega is about 8 miles from the beach in Santa Monica, and is pretty much the halfway point between Santa Monica and Downtown LA.

to some degree the Westside culture spreads as far east as La Brea Ave, or Western Ave if you take in Hancock Park and the nice parts of Hollywood.

This.

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Doheny Drive. Dividing lines don't get more obvious than it.

Sunset Strip/Boystown/Melrose Ave/Miracle Mile do not fit "Westside" living, and very consider them part of that. These areas are all East of Doheny.

[disgruntled la native]

Originally Posted by RaymondChandlerLives

Doheny Drive heading into Beverly Hills. Dividing lines don't get more dramatic than that.

I can't think of one native who considers the Sunset Strip/Boystown/Melrose Ave/Miracle Mile to be "Westside" neighborhoods. These areas are all East of Doheny.

But the parts of Beverly Hills, city of LA, and Culver City east of Doheny (or in Culver City's case, Robertson) are the Westside aren't they?

The lines in LA have blurred more and more. Most westsiders do go to West Hollywood and vice versa. Many Beverly Hills residents have their local shopping and entertainment in West Hollywood or "Beverly Grove" (by Cedars and the Beverly Center).

Boystown is its own world, but West Hollywood West (closer to Melrose and Beverly by Doheny/La Cienega) has plenty of families and very pricy homes with a distinct "East Beverly Hills" vibe to it.

[Panamajack78]

West of La Cienaga

[munchitup]

Originally Posted by Panamajack78

West of La Cienaga

I would definitely amend my Fairfax statement to La Cienega.

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Originally Posted by disgruntled la native

But the parts of Beverly Hills, city of LA, and Culver City east of Doheny (or in Culver City's case, Robertson) are the Westside aren't they?

The lines in LA have blurred more and more. Most westsiders do go to West Hollywood and vice versa. Many Beverly Hills residents have their local shopping and entertainment in West Hollywood or "Beverly Grove" (by Cedars and the Beverly Center).

Boystown is its own world, but West Hollywood West (closer to Melrose and Beverly by Doheny/La Cienega) has plenty of families and very pricy homes with a distinct "East Beverly Hills" vibe to it.

You're right, Pico-Robertson, the parts of BH east of Doheny, and Culver City are definitely Westside. This makes makes a linear North-South dividing line virtually impossible. This map is a good compromise.

Westside - Mapping L.A. - Los Angeles Times

[mrsltd]

Um, the Pacific Ocean?

[Mr. Opinionated]

Well geographically speaking the West Side addresses actually begin at Zero dot-Main Street, adjacent to East Metro Los Angles, or whichever streets coincide with that to the north or south. But yes, the popular "West L.A." demarcation tends to be somewhere between La Brea Ave. and La Cienega Blvd, where the lower paid neighborhoods merge with the higher paid ones.

[quixotic59]

Originally Posted by Mike121

People will tell you different things, but, I'm right and anyone who disagrees with me is wrong. There is only one true answer. La Cienega! ;-)

I am accepting this answer as the only correct one!!!