I can't argue with you there; in fact I agree with you.
It's still interesting to me what people consider downtown and not; I consider Chinatown to be part of downtown LA, but I had a co-worker who didn't consider it to be part of downtown. She was a Vietnamese girl close to my age, who came here as a South Vietnamese refugee with her family in the 1970s when she was a little girl. She lived in Chinatown until her mid-teens, when she and her family moved to West Covina. We were having a conversation, I don't remember exactly what I said, but she retorted with "Chinatown isn't part of downtown!" And I said "well what is it, then?" She said "It's just Chinatown." And then I asked her if she thought that Little Tokyo was part of downtown LA, and she actually said yes.
Go figure.
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