September 15 the map

I’ve been thinking of a visual translation of what the layout of LA looks like . If you were to throw it over the top of Melbourne you may get a picture that you can capture . LA does sit on a Bay but it is wide open an exposed to the Pacific . 1st of all we’l cut Geelong out and  slice the Bellarine  peninsula off the map . Now you’ve got the Yu Yangs on the coast joining on to the great ocean road . At the point of the Yu Yangs Malibu sits , as you drive along this coast you’ve got the famous Pacific Coast hwy which is remarkably similar to The Great Ocean road .Wrapping back south along the coast you have Santa Monica which would sit right where St.kilda does . Venice=Elwood . These 2 matches really do have remarkable similarities. The same type of people live and work in these locations .About 20 k inland is where downtown LA sits . In reality LA would sit where Chadstone is .LA is not a pretty city. Beverly Hills would be where Toorak sits to Chadstone and Hollywood would sit 7 k directly East of Chadstone . Maybe at the location of Blackburn or Box Hill . The walk of fame reminds me of Frankston , not joking . Sorry if I’ve lowered your expectations .Once you drive south of LA your hitting suburbs like Inglewood , Hawthorn and Compton . The Ghetto , its Melbourne cousins …. Noble Park , Dandenong , Keysborough and similar in their layout positions .Moorabin Airport is where LAX would sit , actually this is a pretty accurate comparison. Of course LAX is a monster and much larger and uglier . Heading inland from LAX you drive through Compton and co until you’ve hit the San Bernadino ranges , once again they remind me of the Dandong ranges .The big difference is LA and it’s ranges are really a desert and there is very little green or trees , and the LA baisin is very flat.Disney land is in Anaheim which would sit out at Dandenong but reminds me of Broadmeadows.The attraction is great but the suburb , don’t go there at night , actually not anytime .Heading back to the coast from LAX you’ve got Elsugundo , it looks like Williamstown and has gone through a similar metamorphosis. Ugly to funky cool and expensive. Elsugundo probably sits at about Sandringham . Next is Manhatten Beach which is like Brighton but sits where Mordialloc does .Hermosa Beach (home ) is next which is like Elwood / Old Port Melbourne but sits at about Edithvale . As you head inland ,picture the Pines housing commission estate or anything similar and times it by 100 and you get an idea of what you’l see . Orange County is similar to the Mornington Peninsula only in geography. If you pushed MtMartha up to Chelsea you’d have Palos Verdes . After that the OC begins . Frankston =Long Beach all the way to Sorrento which reminds of Laguna Beach . The OC is heavily populated and stretches down to SanDiego and then you’ve got Mexico . At this point you’ve past Portsea and nearly halfway to Tasmania . The layout of LA is very similar to Melbourne . Now add another 12 million people and you can see what the density and traffic and a lower class that Melbourne might have one day . I hope that gives you a mental map of LA . Coast and ranges =cool , the rest ?