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Originally Posted by craigs
Long Beach isn't South Bay, and it's not merely semantics or homer talk.
The cities along the southern end of Santa Monica Bay, the "South Bay" cities, are oriented toward their west-facing beaches. That's where all the action is, and if you're on the beach in the South Bay, you can watch the sun set over the open Pacific.
Meanwhile, around the Palos Verdes peninsula and past the massive Long Beach-Los Angeles port complex, Long Beach's namesake beach faces southward into San Pedro Bay, with its 8.5 mile long breakwater protecting the harbor. And Long Beach is actually populous and built-up enough to have its own identity anyway.
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Except most of the South Bay cities don't even touch the beach. It's just a catch all name for the cluster of small cities not on the water because they didn't have the population or identity of Long Beach. But let's not act like the South Bay cities aren't very tied into Long Beach, because they are and specifically the inland cities. The relationship and closeness LBC has with these cities, especially Carson, Torrance, Lomita, etc., is why I mistakenly grouped it in.