Oh hey neat, it's Unlimited Carve Works.

I don't think you'd have any reason to, unless you've heard @cidolatry.bsky.social rave about the quality of the restrooms at a particular Target on the drive to Vegas. That area is prime "affordable land but disgusting commute to work" territory, though I think even that may be an urban legend now.

One final note, I'm amused that this depicted LA very "legally" in that it didn't label areas not considered part of city limits, with maybe-unavoidable exceptions for Glendale and Burbank. Pasadena and Long Beach are conspicuously absent, and civilization (accurately) ends before Santa Clarita.

As an aside: another hastily-assembled overlay labeled the majority of Orange County as split between Rich and Poor NJ, which I would agree with; and it had the Hesperia/Victorville area up 15 as being half of PA, a thought which is going to haunt me for the rest of the evening (thanks, internet).

Los Feliz/Atwater is more accessible for that but also hipsters, so Brooklyn works. If there were a way to define a borough here without it being contiguous, I'd put Downtown LA in "Staten Island" too, but that's my own bias god, downtown sucked) and I know parts of it merit it being in "Brooklyn".

But the rest is really spot on. Queens is where people go to be isolated from the rest of NYC socially, to put it kindly, and that's the Valley to a T. Westside has all the Fun Shit but nobody outside it wants to go there and back, so that's Manhattan.

This mostly tracks! I read elsewhere that all of Glendale and Burbank should be considered "Brooklyn", and I understand why - the more hipstery parts of that area kind of end near Atwater Village, but the rest of it isn't so much like the Valley proper ("Queens") so there's no perfect answer for it.

Prodigy's unique method of content delivery affected how end-users could post to its BBS system, so it was something I was aware of at the time, even if I didn't know the technical reasoning for it. It's also why Prodigy's late-introduced web browser had to be rolled out as a stand-alone program.

I'll be fine! I need to make sure I make it to the Suikoden 1 & 2 remaster release next year, after all. (Life, uh, "goals".)