You’re absolutely right, because California secondary schools don’t teach life skills, they’re not on the standardized tests. I’m a meteorologist so I know a large amount of geography.
If that was a joke to imply I misspoke, I’m not. You’re just using maps that don’t include the great state of Jefferson for “legal” reasons. But the cultural geography of California pretty much ends north of Chico.
I’m saying that those giant mountains that everyone builds their expensive houses on in Los Angeles, make it geographically impossible and financially irresponsible to even attempt to build a train to go through it.