Emily VelascoI just learned that North Yemen was southwest of South Yemen. I always assumed that North Yemen was the one to the north.
Locally, we have Covina and West Covina. West Covina is mostly south of Covina.
Morgan Fletcher@MLE_online I live in #Oakland, California, west^h^h^h^h east of East Oakland.
(East Oakland was named as the city was expanding and subsuming other towns. Now Oakland extends west to the county line, near where I live. East Oakland remains a well-known neighborhood.)
@morgan I'm not following here. You're saying that East Oakland is east of Oakland?
@MLE_online yeah, it's confusing. East Oakland is west of much of Oakland. It's another confusing place name / cardinal mismatch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Oakland,_Oakland,_California
@[email protected], i think you explained it wrong the first time, and i was confused. You said, "I live in #Oakland, California, west of East Oakland."
But what you're trying to say is that East Oakland is west of Oakland?
@MLE_online both. It's in the middle of modern Oakland. It's east of the original town site of Oakland, which was on the western shore of the San Francisco Bay, founded by squatters circa 1852. East Oakland is a neighborhood that was originally on the eastern edge of that town.
Here's an image I found that shows the neighborhoods. That teal block /used to be/ east of town.
@MLE_online I live east of East Oakland, but I don't live in East Oakland. It's confusing. Its name no longer matches its geographical orientation. (I live in the Oakland hills, near the border with the next county east of us.)
@morgan ok, got it!