No One Here is From Here

Went to a pot-luck dinner party in Silver Lake last night, which felt wonderful, because it was actual interaction with a lot of people. And yummy food. I made a couple dozen gyoza (thanks for the recipe, Cy!).

Silver Lake is a kind of hipster/trendy-but-still-affordable nabe just east of Hollywood....kind of like Fort Greene or the LES. Granted, it may not be indicative of the LA population in general. But here's where everyone was from last night (i.e., where they grew up, or where that had spent most of their adult life before coming to LA):

• Brooklyn (Park Slope)
• Seattle
• Palm Springs
• another Seattle
• Brooklyn (Sheepshead Bay)
• "Orange County" (town never learned)
• Brooklyn again! (Fort Greene)
• San Diego
• Ohio (hello, outlier!)
• SF Bay area
• Brooklyn (Gowanus...that would be me)

Try to spot the native-born Angelino.

Oops, there isn't one.