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[darcydodo]

As a further note to my "analysis" of Sunnydale's location from a few months ago:

I'm just watching "Nightmares," and there are two insanely conflicting bits in there. 1) Both Buffy and Willow refer to Buffy's dad coming "down" from L.A. to visit. This would, contrary to what I had determined, obviously put Sunnydale south of LA on the map. 2) On the other hand, Wendel says he had the best spider collection in the tri-county area. There are a few places referred to as the tri-county area; we have, for example, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito counties, and we have Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties, and we have San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Merced counties.... Not doing well for placement here. We've also got the nicely overlapping region of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Monterey counties. On the other hand, all of these areas are in central California. So... I think I'll discount the "down" bit, 'cause really, it just doesn't make sense. At all. I figure David Greenwalt was just tripping.

ETA: Another way, incidentally, to rule out Sunnydale being below LA is the reference in "Welcome to the Hellmouth" to Neiman Marcus. Buffy says that Sunnydale's two hours on the freeway from the nearest Neiman Marcus. There is, according to www.neimanmarcus.com, a store in LA, and another in San Diego. San Diego is only just above Mexico, so there's no way Sunnydale could be south of S.D. And anywhere in between the two cities, there's not a full two hour drive on either side. There's also a store in Newport Beach, which is vaguely between S.D. and L.A. So, yeah. David Greenwalt must have been tripping.

And I'm also going to point again at the vineyard thing. That really does narrow it down to the central coast, since it's obviously not Napa area.

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[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

There are two conventions as to which way is up when giving directions. One states that going up means going North, and the other states that it is up to either the Capital or the nearest major city. Coming down from LA can therefore be read as coming down from the big important place to the backwater of Sunnydale, which doesn't contradict anything.

OTOH I don't know whether this is an American usage or not. (I know that one of my parents uses each convention...)

[darcydodo]

I've never heard of that as an American usage; only came across it in England. That may, of course, just be me.

I added something while you were posting this, btw. :)