I was born in Paramount, California and lived there for about 4-5 years and have almost no memories of it and then....

I did not grow up in the 1950's. Picture is of Bellflower Boulevard, it looks the same today minus the thriving businesses. It's actually kind of sad to see that it used to be at very least, photogenic.

Bellflower is a city in Los Angeles County, California, and is a suburb of Los Angeles. It was incorporated on September 3, 1957. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 76,616, up from 72,878 at the 2000 census.

Nothing of interest has ever happened here other than crime.

I moved when I was about 13 and spent the rest of my life so far in a house on a street in...

Whittier, Butthole, California.

Whittier is a city in Los Angeles County, California about 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Los Angeles. The city had a population of 85,331 at the 2010 census, up from 83,680 as of the 2000 census, and encompasses 14.7 square miles (38.0 square kilometers).

Eat it Bellflower we have more people, more scummy bottom feeding people.

It was founded by Quakers I guess and was named after a Quaker poet. All the cholos and thick accented teens are very proud of our Quaker heritage.

According to Wikipedia our sister cities are Whittier, Alaska and Changshu, China. I have no ****ing clue what that implies. I doubt I could waltz into Changshu and be like "Yo! it's your brother Moris!"

The uptown area and Whittier hills are actually quite nice. Nice homes in nice neighborhoods with nice small businesses around them. Of course all these homes are filled with old white people. The gentrification was aided by steep hills and narrow roads.

THE END.

Before moving to Bellflower, I used to live in LA, more specifically Echo Park.

LA is cut up really weird and is REALLY BIG.  Hell, I just found out San Pedro is still apart of LA.  So, within the city there are different "neighborhoods" to state what part of LA you are talking about.
Echo Park the teal color by the intersection of THE 110 & 101(yes, people here say "the" in front of freeway #s) under the dark yellow Silver Lake.

Here is the park/lake of Echo Park.  It's actually going through a 2-3 year renovation.  They drained the entire lake and released a statement saying no bodies were found.. They should be done next year.  I'm excited to see what it'll be like.  I use to go there with my grandma & cousins a lot when we were younger.  Once when we were feeding the ducks & geese, and one of the geese bit my finger, but luckily they have no teeth. 

Every year they would have the Lotus Festival there, when the lotus blooms. Lots of food vendors and performances (which I never watch).

Stuff from Wiki:

"Echo Park is a hilly neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, northwest of Downtown Los Angeles and southeast of Hollywood.

Before World War II, Echo Park was a middle-class neighborhood, nicknamed "Red Hill" for a concentration of political radicals living there.Since its earliest days, the neighborhood has been known to attract the creative, underground, independent, and iconoclastic elements of society. Postwar "white flight" to the suburbs resulted in the area becoming largely Latino, although there have been Latinos living there since the founding of the city in the late 19th century. Many working-class Chinese immigrants also settled in Echo Park due to its proximity to Chinatown, and the area overlaps the Historic Filipinotown district of Los Angeles; plus a small enclave of African-Americans were noted to live just east of Alvarado St. and west of Bonnie Brae Street, since the 1920s."

BUT currently, all the young hip white people are coming back.  You'll find a decent amount of vegan cafes and thrift stores. It's totally different than what it was when I was growing up there. A lot less gang activity and a lot more hipsters.

"Since the early 2000s, artists, actors, musicians and gay couples of all races have flocked the neighborhood for its relatively affordable housing and alternative feel, making it one of the most diversified communities in the United States.^{[citation needed]}

Echo Park was named one of the Top 10 Great Neighborhoods for 2008 by The American Planning Association (APA). Echo Park was chosen due to "its historic architecture, breathtaking hillside topography, walkable and pedestrian-friendly streets, and engaged residents who have worked hard to protect and preserve their community," according to an APA release. Echo Park is a diverse community home to working-class families and blossoming artists, and has had to work twice as hard as other communities to create, maintain and advocate for their great community. The community is remarkably dynamic with countless ethnic groups at all income levels."

Then there's a list of famous people who lived there and I don't really think that's interesting.

Lynchburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The population was 75,568 as of the 2010 census.^[3] Located in thefoothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains along the banks of the James River, Lynchburg is known as the "City of Seven Hills" or "The Hill City." Lynchburg was the only major city in Virginia that did not fall to the Union in the American Civil War.

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For several decades throughout the mid-20th century, the state of Virginia authorized compulsory sterilization of the mentally retarded for the purpose of eugenics. The operations were carried out at the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, now known as the Central Virginia Training School, located just outside Lynchburg. An estimated 8,300 Virginians were sterilized and relocated to Lynchburg, known as a "dumping ground" of sorts for the feeble-minded, poor, blind, epilectic, and those otherwise seen as genetically "unfit".^[25]

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In a Forbes Magazine survey, Lynchburg ranked very poorly when it comes to culture. It ranked at 189 for cultural and leisure out of 200 cities surveyed.^[17]

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Notable residents of Lynchburg include:

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Jerry Falwell (1933 - 2007), senior pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church and founder of the Moral Majority

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Charles Lynch (1736 - 1796), brother of founder John Lynch, Patriot in American Revolution, source of word "lynching"