Los Angeles Relocation Guide - Antevia

• Leona Valley• Littlerock• Llano• Mojave• Neenach• North Edwards• Oro Grande• Pearblossom• Phelan• Pinon Hills• Quartz Hill• Randsburg• Red Mountain• Ridgecrest• Rosamond• Tehachapi• Valyermo• Victorville• YermoNeighborhoods and districtsThe city is unofficially divided up into 11 separate areas: Downtown or Old TownPalmdale (civic center), Trade & Commerce Center (the main shopping district),Desert-View Highlands (old county area), Anaverde (west end-formerly City Ranch),Rancho Vista, Ritter Ranch (far west end),Sun Village (far east end-part County),Harold (old settlement near Lake Palmdale-part County),Quartz Hill (northwest endpartCounty), Lake Los Angeles (farthest east end-part County), and Leona Valley(farthest west end-part County).Unlike nearby Santa Clarita or Los Angeles, the residents of Palmdale do not use thename of their particular areas to have their mail addressed to for the most part. This ismostly due to the very easily navigated local street system, which is almost completelyalphabetized and numeric.ClimatePalmdale is located in the high (altitude) desert. This means that summers are very hotand dry while winters are cold and windy. Palmdale has over 300 days of sunshine peryear. The wind during winter and spring is a result of the temperature differentialbetween Palmdale and Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix maintains a relatively warmertemperature than Palmdale's. This causes the air over Palmdale to have a higherbarometric pressure (thicker air) than the air over Phoenix (thinner air). As a result, theair over Palmdale rushes towards Phoenix, trying to balance out the air pressure. SincePhoenix rarely gets cold, the wind is steady during the winter and spring. The wind is so