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People seem to have trouble with the term "metropolitan area". A woman from Whittier said she came from a South Californian town. I asked if that wasn

Posted by Facto (aka FactoFail) May 9 '10, 10:23

't in the Los Angeles Area. She said no, it was within the County of Los Angeles, but not related to the city. So I said I meant the metropolitan area, to which she replied no.

So I asked her what she thought the metropolitan area to be, and she said "that area of Los Angeles where you find all those skyscrapers etc."

Oh, well.

Metropolitan area - article from Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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Are you picking on us people who are from Whittier? -- nm - BAD May 9, 10:32 1
- Heh, no.. :-) Random example ;-) -- nm - Facto May 9, 10:39
yeah, a metropolitan area is the parts of a city that are boring, the gothamian areas are the parts that are cool -- nm - crash davis May 9, 10:30
Because it sounds like "Metropolis", most likely, which evokes imagery of skyscrapers -- nm - Beryllium May 9, 10:26 1
- That could be... So next time I'll try "Greater Los Angeles Area", to see if that works better. -- nm - Facto May 9, 10:30

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