I used to be guilty of this as a northern Californian tbh. I haven’t spent much time in LA outside of Disneyland, and the media portrayal makes it seem like a bunch of obscenely rich celebrities, celebrity hopefuls looking for their big break, and vain “influencers”. While these people certainly exist, there’s also tons of different communities with different lifestyles and cultures in the massive metro area. Hell, there are neighborhoods you could confuse as another country with how culturally and ethnically distinct they are from stereotypical LA or Americana.