Posted Mar 17, 2026, 6:30 PM
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I do think there's a strong argument that SoCal ended up overpopulated compared to the Bay Area.
Los Angeles was kind of nowheresville until midway through the 1880s (albeit the largest city in the south). The port sucked compared to San Francisco, and the amount of water available in the immediate area was negligible. BNSF choosing the city as the western terminus kind of saved it. Then they discovered oil, at which point things started to snowball.
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