27 Signs You Live In Silver Lake

    Smells like skunks again. Just another day in this eastside L.A. hood.

    1. Your Instagram feed is filled with pictures of this.

    2. Skunk stench is just a fact of life.

    3. This parking lot is the bane of your existence.

    4. You or someone you know has been snapped on a local streetstyle blog.

    5. You know where this is. (Too easy.)

    6. Less shocking to you than the line out the door at Intelligentsia is when there is NO line there.

    7. You have lost your mind — no, seriously, LOST YOUR MIND — waiting for the light at the Hyperion/Fountain intersection.

    8. There's a distinct possibility that the 4100 bar will close due to a housing development. You are praying that this never happens.

    9. This is your workout.

    10. Or you go to Sweaty Sundays.

    11. If you are a girl, you are obsessed (OBSESSED) with local designer Clare Vivier's amazing handbags.

    12. You know all these sneaky stairways.

    13. It's always "The Junction," and hardly ever "Sunset Junction."

    14. The upstairs at L&E is your spot.

    15. You've seen the Elliott Smith wall graffiti-covered, painted over, and covered in graffiti multiple times over.

    16. You almost always run into someone you know at LAMILL.

    17. Yes, you are indeed aware that the band Silversun Pickups is named after Silversun Liquor on Sunset.

    18. Experience has taught you to come to a full stop at all the stop signs along Griffith Park Boulevard — you've seen those sneaky cops hiding out, just waiting for someone to miss one.

    19. You have a back route through the hills that you know like the back of your hand.

    20. If you've lived in Silver Lake for a while, you still call this place Spaceland, not The Satellite.

    21. Stuff like this shows up all the time.

    22. You've never once been steered wrong by the guys at Silverlake Wine.

    23. You have a family of coyotes that sometimes hangs on your front lawn.

    24. You've had a birthday party at the Red Lion Tavern.

    25. You hit up the Silver Lake Meadow at least once a week — for kid birthday parties, outdoor reading, free yoga, and general chilling out time.

    26. This movie — which takes place largely around Silver Lake — is nothing like your life.

    27. It's quite possible that this is the view out your window. And that's something you never, ever get tired of.