Talk:Los Angeles metropolitan area

There is no need for the Los Angeles Metropolitan area page
There is no need for the Los Angeles Metropolitan area page. 75% of this is a copy of the greater Los Angeles area article. No other major city has any such division. Examples include New York, Chicago, Washington D.C, Boston, San Francisco and 99% percent of articles related to major cities in the United States. No other city has a separate article for the metropolitan area (MSA) and the Census statistical area (CSA) rather each major city has an article for the Primary census statistical area (PCSA). Cities which do not have a CSA like Phoenix only talk about the MSA where as cities with CSA's talk about both. Some cities like Philadelphia mention both the CSA and MSA but mainly discuss the region (Delaware Valley). In this case, the government classification of Los Angeles and Orange County as an MSA and the other counties in greater LA is insignificant and irrelevant and there should not be two articles. The relation Los Angeles and Orange county have with each other is actually less the relations Los Angeles has with other counties based on commuter statistics. This article should be remerged with the Greater Los Angeles Area article.

I am proposing the remerging of this article with the Greater Los Angeles Area Article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmabbas786 (talk • contribs) 19:39, 2 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Support: Concur with merge proposal, most definitely. Amerique dialectics  00:00, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Support: but could this actually get done? Greengreengreen  red  04:39, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Support: They are pretty much coterminous. Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 13:06, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Support: for the reasons given above. Thomas.W (talk) 13:19, 25 April 2013 (UTC) (Who lived within the LA MSA for a few years but never heard anyone use other terms than "Greater LA" or just simply "LA")

Confusing map
This map is confusing because it implies that the urbanization between Los Angeles and San Diego is continuous but satellite images (such as Google maps) reveal that this is not the case. This map is also used on the Greater Los Angeles Area article. Eopsid (talk) 12:10, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

I think there should be a brief section, one or two paragraphs, about the geography of the conurbation: the hill and mountain ranges that divide it, other physical boundaries, the various valleys, rivers, deserts, etc. Also a geographical map of the relief, with legends (preferably clickable) on the major features, would be great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.1.219.184 (talk) 02:23, 26 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Considering the topography of the area having a literally continuous urbanization between Los Angeles and San Diego would IMHO be a bit difficult. Thomas.W (talk) 19:21, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The urbanization appears continuous on the map because the only break in the urbanization is Camp Pendleton and the Census Bureau treats military bases as urban. Kmusser (talk) 16:02, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Real estate values
Four out of five areas of the Los Angeles Basin's housing markets continue to see rising values and home prices remain among the highest in the country: West L.A., Palos Verdes Peninsula, west San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel-Covina valleys and south Orange county including the beach cities. Despite the late 2000's and early 2010's recession period, the real estate market in those areas remain good and proves how valuable is it to live in the L.A. metro area and drew in more affluent people to move into the mentioned areas. 71.102.21.238 (talk) 05:34, 4 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I want to note suburban communities 20-30 miles from civic center or downtown LA are portrayed as poorer and mostly minority, but in reality, they are middle to upper-middle class and home to professionals who work in LA. The valleys (esp south and west San Fernando within city of LA, San Gabriel/Covina, and Simi/Conejo in Ventura county), beach cities like Santa Monica and Palos Verdes, and in Orange County: Anaheim, Santa Ana and Irvine are notably affluent. Parts of Long Beach and Pomona aren't really "ghetto" either, despite large minority (Black, Hispanic/Latino and Asian) populations. 67.49.89.214 (talk) 01:39, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Need a map, ASAP!
It is crazy to list every zip code (who cares!) but not provided a general map of the Los Angeles metro area. I came here because I was looking at a Wikipedia article about the "Gateway" cities, apparently this is a region of LA. But I come to the Los Angeles article and the LA Metro article and there is no information on the regions that make this area.

Some one who wants to know more about LA doesn't need to know zip codes or area codes. They know where cities are in relation to each other, what cities make up the Gateway or Southeast region? This basic resource should exist, you can find it more most countries and many counties and cities around the world. 69.125.134.86 (talk) 15:10, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Five or six 500 Fortune Companies?
In the section "Economy" there is written that the city is home to 5 Fortune 500 companies, while on the site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles#Economy it is stated, that it's six companies.217.99.206.97 (talk) 13:14, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

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