All I know is that those of us who live in the SF Bar Area look down on everyone else. 
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Alas, the [Sherman Oaks] Galleria is long gone. 
There’s still a retail space there, but it’s configured differently, and most of the square footage is actually office space.
Pretty much. The highlights are the gym, movie theater and a couple restaurants. But…it is an Arclight theater so that’s a major plus.
As if!
My parents live in Studio City, which is a very nice part of the SFV. Tree-lined streets, little shops and cafés, bookstores, Trader Joes, all within walking distance of their house.
Keep in mind that Valley Girl, the song, was written in the early 80s. We’re talking 30 years ago, folks. Tress can grow a lot in 30 years.
Now I feel old, but what-everrrrrr!!
As the Sons of Anarchy well know. Any day now Jax and the boys - no wait, have I got it wrong again?
Still - the Hells Angels did take over Porterville so Lodi is fair game. 
But seriously:
As a non-American I’m still unclear about where exactly a Valley Girl fits in the pantheon of American women.
As indicated earlier I thought they were Beverly Hills wannabes, pretty, reasonably well off, and focused on the usual teenage interests of clothes, makeup, and boys.
However I’m now getting the sense a Valley Girl might be a mall rat or maybe even trailer trash. Would Britney Spears be a VG? Miley Cyrus?
Assuming the VG is understood in the USA, how is she perceived?
And don’t forget Burke-Williams! Although I’ve only been there twice, and only because attorneys I work for had given me gift cards.
Ah, forgot about that. And the DSW, although I can almost never buy shoes there because they don’t regularly carry my size.
I’m not American, but closer to mall rat than trailer trash. More (upper) middle class “dumb blonde” than either, though. What makes a VG is the dumbness and the bimbon-ess. They’re the WASP-y West Coast equivalent of , I don’t know, those Jersey Shore women? Tacky and stupid and materialistic would be the defining factors, I think.
Neither of those is even from California, they’re both Southerners. And their accents are waaay off.
What’s a “bimbon”?
Essex is the precise equivalent to New Jersey.
“bimbo-ness”
To me, a Valley-girl was the epitome of vapid suburbia. Middle and upper-middle class girls drenched in shallow materialism.
Valley Girl wasn’t as pejorative as some people are making it out to be. They were just popular social middle-class girls who were really into boys and shopping and hanging out at the mall. Shallow, but not stupid. And they happened to have a particularly distinctive L.A. way of talking.
My 14-year-old daughter and her friends put on Val-speak sometime for ironic effect. But, I’m not sure there are any real Valley Girls left in the wild. Culture moves on.
I think the lyrics to Frank Zappa’s song give a good image:
Not trailer trash…more vapid high school girl with money, accent like a surfer on helium.
I lived many years in the Central Valley including Stockton … Lodi generally ascribes to the San Joaquin Valley and Galt ascribes to the Sacramento Valley. The distinction isn’t really great although one could divide the two by way of watershed. Either it drains into the Sacramento River or the San Joaquin River.
How rich is the soil … it burns
Today they have unearned money and they are called the Kardashians.