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Valley Is No Longer a Remote Outpost

I\’ve lived in two of the country\’s most ridiculed locales. I was born in New Jersey, the punch line of stand-up comics everywhere. Adding insult to injury, my family moved to the San Fernando Valley in the early \’70s. At that time, the Valley was perceived as the end of the earth — a place you\’d need a passport to visit, should you actually want to. Over time, the remaining farmland and orchards gave way to more strip malls and housing tracts, while the Valley retained its reputation as a place where nothing worthwhile happens.

Things change. I now live on the Westside. Hoboken is considered hip. And the San Fernando Valley, well, it\’s begun to resemble the Westside in ways both positive and negative.

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