Primarily cause there's no economic reason for Californian's to live further south than Downtown and the shipyards whereas TJ has some vestted reasons in being as close to the crossing as possible.
How does that even work? I mean, if that's the coast in the background, that means "up" in that photograph is west. Which means that north, where San Diego should be so far as I understand, is the right side with all the buildings.
(Looks closely,) Nope- That's not coast, that's the smog and the mountains doing a GREAT impression. Take a look at Google maps and you'll see the same thing, (Kind of cool!) http://maps.google.com/maps?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hl=en&tab=wl
That was my thought as well, until I saw the shadows where the wrong way for us to be looking West, and the signs in the urban part were ALL Spanish! :D
I think the misleading order of the words in the title and the ocean-like illusion in the image is brilliant, it makes you stare and think. I couldn't quite figure out why the Mexican government would back away from the US border, waste so much water on grass that you could see ponds from a mile away, build an extra wall and construct... administrative buildings and a shopping mall? Madness! But now, thanks to the comments, I see what you did there, US.
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Date: 2009-07-21 01:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-07-21 04:07 am (UTC)Or is that not coast?
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Date: 2009-07-21 04:13 am (UTC)It does a wonderful impression of the coast, though.
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Date: 2009-07-21 05:07 am (UTC)http://maps.google.com/maps?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hl=en&tab=wl
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Date: 2009-07-25 02:08 am (UTC)Unless there's a secret hi-res version lurking around on the web that I've managed to miss.
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Date: 2009-07-25 02:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-21 09:41 am (UTC)Then again, I'm from Los Angeles, and knew which side was which.
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Date: 2009-07-21 08:29 pm (UTC)Alas, I'm just not a west coast person.
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Date: 2009-07-21 03:56 am (UTC)Upside down and backwards
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