A lot of people say this, but I have to say... I have lived in the calabasas area. When you live there, you realize none of the rest of california actually exists. It's all just figments of your stoned or drunk mind that operate outside the bounds of your normal existence. People from calabasas think they are the center of the world. No, when you say that those places are "California" and this "Isn't the real thing" I think you just haven't been to the "real" california.