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I'm interested in the breakdowns of city neighbourhoods. Assuming you live in a city of course. Think the Bronx, Queens etc for New York.
Vancouver city (further broken up into the neighbourhoods below)
Then you have in roughly increasing order of distance from downtown:
Burnaby
North Vancouver
West Vancouver
Richmond
New Westminster
Coquitlam
Surrey
Delta
Langley
The above usually constitutes the GVRD greater Vancouver region district. Outside this you have further satellite neighbourhoods, as you go towards the US border or out into the Fraser Valley, at this point you are looking at about and hours drive or more.
LumosMaxima
(585 posts)The only parts of my town that have their own names are subdivisions.
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Fordham, University Heights, Marble Head, Highbridge (lots more)
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Crack on the south side, coke on the northside, crank on the east side.
Sadness and booze in downtown and skid row, future sadness but car sales on the north side.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Which city?
Google doesn't help
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside, Jackson Heights, Flushing
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I've heard of it, though not sure why come to think of it. Maybe it's its odd name.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)is an anglicized version of a Dutch name. It was originally a Dutch colony waaaaay back.
rug
(82,333 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Aristus
(66,096 posts)There's "downtown" Puyallup, the original small town located in the Puyallup River Valley, and the site of the Western Washington State Fairgrounds.
There's South Hill, a teeming, crowded suburban strip, much of which lies in unincorporated Pierce County.
And sparsely-populated North Hill, which borders on neighboring Edgewood, near the King County line.
There's East and West Puyallup, neatly divided by the appropriately-named Meridian Avenue. The west side has a lot of older tract homes, small houses situated on large lots, whereas the east side has a lot of "McMansions", larger home sited on small lots.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... and the damned deer are everywhere.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)Capitol Hill
First (or Pill) Hill
Madison Valley
Madison Park
Montlake
The University District
Ravenna
Green Lake
Queen Anne Hill
Downtown
The International District
Lake Washington
Madrona
Leschi
Rainer Valley
Georgetown
Columbia City
West Seattle
There are more but I'm exhausted!
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)And that's just downtownish. I've never taken time to look at it and have only been there a few times but I hear many of the names on the us stations we get from you guys. Seattle has always looked like a bit of an oddly laid out city to me. Probably due to the way it's confined geographically along the peninsula like that.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)is that it's on a grid, and the landscape is FULL of hills, cliffs and water. Just because you're on Elm Street over here doesn't by ANY means mean you can get to Elm Street over there.
I did do a pretty good job, eh?
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)We've got a few streets like that here where said street is interrupted by some feature and suddenly continues elsewhere, very annoying, especially if you are looking for an address you've never been to before. How are you supposed to know you are even on the right part of the street, maybe you have to go way around some hill or something to the "other" hill crest lane etc...
Yeah you did well.
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)Seattle wouldn't have a place to hold its syttende mai parade if it weren't for Ballard.
(I used to live there. Remember how Almost Live used to make fun of Ballard drivers?)
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)There is a small town that has a post office, a mom and pop convenience store, a small church, a barbershop, a biker bar and a closed elementary school. We only go there to pick up our mail at the P.O. It's about 4-5 miles away.
TeamPooka
(24,156 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts)Angelino Heights[TG]
Arleta[MLA][TG]
Arlington Heights[MLA]
Armenia, Little[1]
Arts District[2]
Atwater Village[MLA]
Baldwin Hills[TG]
Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw[MLA]
Baldwin Village[TG]
Baldwin Vista[citation needed]
Bank District, Old[2]
Beachwood Canyon[3]
Bel Air, Bel-Air or Bel Air Estates[MLA][TG][4]
Bel Air, East Gate[citation needed]
Benedict Canyon[citation needed]
Beverly Crest[MLA]
Beverly Glen[TG]
Beverly Grove[MLA]
Beverly Hills Post Office[5]
Beverly Park[6]
Beverlywood[MLA]
Boyle Heights[MLA][TG]
Brentwood[MLA][TG]
Brentwood Circle[citation needed]
Brentwood Glen[7]
Broadway-Manchester[MLA]
Bunker Hill[2]
Cahuenga Pass[TG]
Canals, Venice[citation needed]
Canoga Park[MLA][TG]
Canterbury Knolls[citation needed]
Carthay[MLA]
Central-Alameda[MLA]
Central City[TG]
Century City[MLA][TG]
Chatsworth[MLA][TG]
Chatsworth Reservoir[MLA]
Chesterfield Square[MLA][TG]
Cheviot Hills[MLA][TG]
Chinatown[MLA][TG]
Civic Center[8]
Core, Historic[2]
Country Club Park[TG]
Crenshaw[TG]
Crestwood Hills[9]
Cypress Park[MLA][TG]
Del Rey[MLA][TG]
Downtown[MLA]
Eagle Rock[TG][MLA]
East Gate Bel Air[citation needed]
East Hollywood[MLA]
Echo Park[MLA][TG]
Edendale[citation needed]
El Sereno[MLA][TG]
Elysian Heights[citation needed]
Elysian Park[MLA]
Elysian Valley[MLA]
Encino[MLA][TG]
Ethiopia, Little[10]
Exposition Park[MLA][TG]
Faircrest Heights [11]
Fairfax[MLA]
Fashion District[2]
Filipinotown, Historic[12]
Financial District[2]
Florence[MLA][TG]
Flower District[13]
Franklin Hills[citation needed]
Gallery Row[2]
Garvanza[TG]
Glassell Park[MLA][TG]
Gramercy Park[MLA]
Granada Hills[MLA][TG]
Green Meadows[MLA]
Griffith Park[MLA]
Hancock Park[MLA][TG]
Hansen Dam[MLA]
Harbor City[MLA][TG]
Harbor Gateway[MLA][TG]
Harvard Heights[MLA][TG]
Harvard Park[MLA]
Hermon[TG]
Highland Park[MLA][TG]
Historic Core[2]
Hollywood[MLA][TG]
Hollywood Dell[citation needed]
Hollywood Hills[MLA][TG]
Hollywood Hills West[MLA]
Holmby Hills[TG]
Hyde Park[MLA][TG]
Jefferson Park[MLA][TG]
Jewelry District[citation needed]
Kinney Heights[citation needed]
Koreatown[MLA][TG]
Lafayette Square[TG]
Lake Balboa[MLA][TG]
Lake View Terrace[MLA][TG]
Larchmont[MLA]
Laurel Canyon[citation needed]
Leimert Park[MLA][TG]
Lincoln Heights[MLA][TG]
Little Armenia[TG][1]
Little Ethiopia[10]
Little Tokyo[TG]
Los Feliz[MLA][TG]
M-Z[edit]
Manchester Square[MLA]
Mandeville Canyon[citation needed]
Marina Peninsula[citation needed]
Mar Vista[MLA][TG]
Melrose Hill[14]
Mid-City[MLA][TG]
Mid-Wilshire[MLA]
Miracle Mile[TG]
Mission Hills[MLA][TG]
Montecito Heights[MLA][TG]
Monterey Hills[citation needed]
Mount Olympus[TG]
Mount Washington[MLA][TG]
Naud Junction[citation needed]
Nichols Canyon[citation needed]
NoHo Arts District[citation needed]
North Hills[MLA][TG]
North Hollywood[MLA][TG]
Northridge[MLA][TG]
North University Park[TG]
Old Bank District[2]
Outpost Estates[citation needed]
Pacific Palisades[MLA][TG]
Pacoima[MLA][TG]
Palisades del Rey (defunct)[15]
Palisades Highlands[TG]
Palms[MLA][TG]
Panorama City[MLA][TG]
Park La Brea[TG]
Picfair Village[16]
Pico-Robertson[MLA]
Pico-Union[MLA]
Playa del Rey[TG]
Playa Vista[MLA]
Porter Ranch[MLA][TG]
Rancho Park[MLA][TG]
Reseda[MLA][TG]
Rustic Canyon[citation needed]
San Pedro[MLA][TG]
Reynier Village[17]
Sawtelle[MLA][TG]
Sepulveda Basin[MLA]
Shadow Hills[MLA][TG]
Sherman Oaks[MLA][TG]
Silver Lake[MLA][TG]
Skid Row[18]
Solano Canyon[citation needed]
South Carthay[TG]
South Central, Historic[MLA]
South Park[MLA]
South Robertson[TG]
Spaulding Square[citation needed]
Studio City[MLA][TG]
Sunland[MLA][TG]
Sunset Junction
Sun Valley[MLA][TG]
Sylmar[MLA][TG]
Tarzana[MLA][TG]
Tehrangeles
Terminal Island[TG]
Thai Town[TG]
Tokyo, Little[TG]
Toluca Lake[MLA][TG]
Toy District[2]
Tujunga[MLA][TG]
University Hills
University Park[MLA]
University Park, North
Valley Glen[MLA][TG]
Valley Village[MLA][TG]
Van Nuys[MLA][TG]
Venice[MLA][TG]
Venice Canals[citation needed]
Vermont Knolls[MLA][TG]
Vermont-Slauson[MLA]
Vermont Square[MLA]
Vermont Vista[MLA]
Victor Heights[19]
Victoria Park[20]
Village Green[21]
Warner Center[TG]
Watts[MLA][TG]
West Adams[MLA][TG]
Westchester[MLA][TG]
Westdale[22]
Westgate[citation needed]
West Hills[MLA][TG]
Westlake[MLA][TG]
West Los Angeles[MLA][TG]
Westside Village[23]
Westwood[MLA][TG]
Westwood Village[24]
Whitley Heights[TG]
Wholesale District[2]
Wilmington[MLA][TG]
Wilshire Center[TG]
Wilshire Highlands[citation needed]
Wilshire Park[citation needed]
Wilshire Vista[citation needed]
Wilshire Vista Heights[citation needed]
Windsor Square[MLA][TG]
Winnetka[MLA][TG]
Woodland Hills[MLA][TG]
Yucca Corridor[citation needed
nirvana555
(448 posts)It looks like you didn't go any further south than San Pedro.
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)not the city of Los Angeles. The neighborhoods I found and listed are those in the City of LA.
hunter
(38,264 posts)Did not like commuting!
When my wife was accepted to grad school in another state we left.
Strict air pollution laws have made things much better in Los Angeles. I remember searing smogs as a kid that burned eyes, nose, throat, and lungs.
But the traffic congestion now is as bad as ever. I've wasted too much of my life in stop-and-go traffic.
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 2, 2014, 01:39 AM - Edit history (1)
All are in the city of Pittsburgh. No suburbs are listed. I have lived in 3 of them. Lawrenceville, Brooklline and the South Side.
Allegheny Center
Allegheny West
Allentown
Arlington
Arlington Heights
Banksville
Bedford Dwellings
Beechview
Beltzhoover
Bloomfield
Bluff (also known as Uptown or Soho)
Bon Air
Brighton Heights
Brookline
California-Kirkbride
Carrick
Central Business District (Downtown) (also known as The Golden Triangle)
Central Lawrenceville
Central Northside (including the Mexican War Streets)
Central Oakland
Chartiers
Chateau
Chinatown
Crafton Heights
Crawford-Roberts
Duquesne Heights
East Allegheny (also known as Deutschtown)
East Carnegie
East Hills
East Liberty
Elliott
Esplen
Fairywood
Fineview
Friendship
Garfield
Glen Hazel
Greenfield
Hays
Hazelwood
Highland Park
Homewood North
Homewood South
Homewood West
Knoxville
Larimer
LincolnLemingtonBelmar
Lincoln Place
Lower Lawrenceville
Manchester
Marshall-Shadeland (also known as Brightwood)
Middle Hill
Morningside
Mount Oliver (not to be confused with the neighboring borough of Mount Oliver)
Mount Washington
New Homestead
North Oakland
North Point Breeze
North Shore
Northview Heights
Oakwood
Overbrook
Panther Hollow (officially part of South Oakland)
Perry North (also known as Observatory Hill)
Perry South (also known as Perry Hilltop)
Point Breeze
Polish Hill
Regent Square
Ridgemont
Saint Clair
Shadyside
Sheraden
South Oakland
Southshore
South Side Flats
South Side Slopes
Spring Garden
Spring HillCity View
Squirrel Hill
Stanton Heights
Strip District
Summer Hill
Swisshelm Park
Terrace Village
Troy Hill
Upper Hill
Upper Lawrenceville
Washington's Landing (A sub-neighborhood of Troy Hill)
West End
West Oakland
Westwood
Windgap
nolabear
(41,915 posts)Either an amazing memory or a good Google search.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts)I started listing them & got to 56.............I knew there are over 90 and no one around (brothers & sisters-in-law) to help out. If this had been a question on Christmas day with everyone around we would have probably been able to list 80-90. When I couldn't get beyond 56, I googled it & found the list at Wikipedia.
Some of the neighborhoods I missed were Fairywood, East Hills, Fineview (I've been there) and it does have a fine view of downtown Pittsburgh, Duquesne Heights and Westwood.
Rhythm
(5,435 posts)Suncrest
Sunnyside
First Ward
South Park
Woodburn
Jerome Park
Sabraton
North Hills
The Wharf District
Evansdale
Wiles Hill
Greenmont
The Mileground
Brookhaven
GrayStone
Marion Meadows
This list is incomplete, and is just within Morgantown proper...
This doesn't count the adjascent suburbs (with their own municipal governments) like:
Star City
Westover
Granville
Osage
Cheat Lake
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)This list breaks down the neighborhoods into quadrants, neighborhoods and historic districts.
http://rocwiki.org/Rochester_Neighborhoods
orleans
(33,987 posts)it feels just like a test in jr. high that i'm about to flunk because i'm writing on my paper: No, i'm not answering this question and i've decided not to take the entire test.
actually, it just feels more overwhelming than like a jr. high test.
so i guess i'll answer.
i live in a suburb outside of chicago.
the town i live in, much like many of chicago's surrounding towns, have similar neighborhoods:
the north side, the south side, and downtown (not to be confused with the actual "downtown" which is another word for "chicago" when you live in the burbs. and then when you get to chicago the word "downtown" means a specific section of the city.)
geardaddy
(24,924 posts)The bolded ones are where I've lived.
Armatage
Audubon Park
Bancroft
Beltrami
Bottineau
Bryant
Bryn Mawr
CARAG
Webber-Camden
Cedar-Riverside
Cedar-Isles-Dean
Central
Cleveland
Columbia Park
Corcoran
Downtown East, West
East Harriet
East Isles
East Calhoun
Elliot Park
Field, Regina, Northrop
Folwell
Fuller Tangletown
Fulton
Hale, Page, Diamond
Harrison
Hawthorne
Holland
Jordan
Kenny
Kenwood
Kingfield
Lind-Bohanon
Linden Hills
Logan Park
Longfellow
Loring Park
Lowry Hill
Lowry Hill East
Lyndale
Lynnhurst
Marcy-Holmes
Marshall Terrace
McKinley
Nicollet Island/East Bank
Nokomis East
North Loop
Northeast Park
Near North, Willard-Hay
Phillips
Powderhorn Park
Prospect Park
Seward
Sheridan
Shingle Creek
Southeast Como
St. Anthony West
St. Anthony East
Standish Ericsson
Stevens Square
Sumner-Glenwood
Victory
Waite Park
West Calhoun
Whittier
Windom
Windom Park
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)We have Turnagain, Spenard, Midtown, Hillside (upper and lower), Mountain View (which was recently determined to be the most diverse neighborhood in the country), Fairview, Government Hill, Downtown, Bootlegger's Cove, Bayshore, Ocean View, Muldoon. I'm sure there are more.
Airport Heights, Rogers Park, College Gate, UMED (Unversity of Alaska/Providence Hospital and surrounding), Rabbit Creek, Bear Valley (I think the official list is considering these part of the Hillside). Eagle River and Chugiak are technically part of the municipality, even though they're separated from Anchorage by 10-15 miles.
I live in Turnagain.
Here's the "official" list. I did pretty good off the top of my head.
Anchorage Bowl
Abbott Loop
Airport Heights
Bayshore
Downtown
Fairview
Government Hill
Hillside
Little Fairbanks
Midtown
Mountain View
Muldoon
North Star
Nunaka Valley
Oceanview
Rogers Park
Russian Jack
Sand Lake
South Addition
Spenard
Stuckagain Heights
Turnagain
University-Medical District
North of Anchorage
Birchwood
Chugiak
Eagle River
Eklutna
Peters Creek
South of Anchorage
Bird
Indian
Rainbow
Girdwood
Enrique
(27,461 posts)East Bumfuck and South Bumfuck.
hunter
(38,264 posts)** middle class, single family homes, mixed ethnicity (our neighborhood). Cops, firefighters, teachers, medical services, mechanics, truck drivers, refrigeration and food packaging techs, etc..
** apartments, not subsidized
** apartments, subsidized. We live two blocks away from some section eight friendly housing. Nice people mostly, but their teen kids frequently spray graffiti on our back wall.
** very crowded older single family homes in neighborhoods where many of the people are undocumented workers
** trailer parks, many of them with histories going back to the Great Depression and "dust belt" immigration to California.
** homeless camps.
Wealthier people live elsewhere, up in the hills, ten miles away at least, many in gated communities.
Some of the very wealthy big agriculture corporate people fly in and out by private jet. The airport they enjoy was built by the army air force during World War II.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I know in many of the larger cities you have wealthy and poor neighbourhoods just like anywhere else in the world but because you are living in a large city the feeling of segregation usually only goes so far. People have to mingle to some extent and the city as a whole has at least something of a unifying effect. But in smaller towns and rural areas, it sounds like you are describing a less densely populated area, you have the opportunity for the wealthy to form their own gated communities that feel much more walled off from the rest of society.
hunter
(38,264 posts)Even after equal housing laws banned redlining and racial restrictive covenants, local real estate agents, bank loan officers, apartment managers, etc., would direct non-white, non "Christian" people away from "white" neighborhoods. The U.S.A. version of apartheid, unspoken. Driving while black" citations were a favorite sport of the local police.
I fled that world as soon as I was able. My parents did too shortly after my youngest sibling graduated from high school. (I've yet to visit my parent's home in the rain forest. The water they use is collected off their roof. The fruits and vegetables they eat are local.)
My dad's family is old white California. My grandma was born in San Francisco. She and her sister were lured south by the glamor of Hollywood. My great aunt was Hollywood-wild during the 'twenties and 'thirties. She knew people. Prohibition never happened in her world. Drink, dance, and party all night.
My grandpa was okay with me dating, in his words, "A Mexican Girl" but it upset him when my wife and I decided to get married. He did not attend our wedding. Thankfully he got over that.
The city my wife and I live in now is largely Mexican-American, recent immigrants, old Mexican California, and everyone in between. People from all over the world too, the city is remarkably cosmopolitan for an agricultural community.
I occasionally run into wealthier, older, white people who say they never visit our city because it's "too dangerous." I've never felt that way. Mostly the gangsters shoot one another.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)You mention the rain forest where they collect rain water and eat local foods. That's something of a fantasy of my own. Where to they live?!
The multicultural landscape is quite different in Canada. We don't have the strong Mexican influence nor do we have a large African American population. Instead we have a large Asian immigrant population. Vancouver's population is around 20% to 30% south and south eastern Asian. There is also a large Indian and Iranian population here.
Crime is certainly a problem here but it's not at the same level as it is in the states. Here to though there is something of a negative stereotype surrounding crime and certain racial groups. Most of the drug trade is split between white gangs and Asian gangs here. The Asian component is somewhat evenly split between South East Asian, Vietnamese etc, gangs and Seikh gangs. Like there most of the shooting is between themselves. Random violence isn't a big issue on the whole.
GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)South Philly
Northeast Philly
West Philly
North Philly
But I was wrong - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Philadelphia_neighborhoods
yuiyoshida
(41,763 posts)I live by Nihonmachi.. Japantown! (Lower Pacific Heights) This is SAN FRANCISCO if you didn't know.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)FatBuddy
(376 posts)Poacher's Hill
Crackton
Slacktown
Pigeonville
Surgery Valley
Thunder Alley
The Squids
The Lower 140s
Status Town
Bell End
Shitston
Terror Town
The Citadel
The Octagon
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)-Ghosttown
-Montclair
-Dimond
-Laurel
-Gaskill
-66th Village
-Jack London
-Rockridge
-Chinatown
-Piedmont
-The Twamps
-The Hills
-Shady 80s
-Glenview
-Brookfield
-Sem City