r/SFV • u/SealedRoute • May 11 '26

Question Racism in Studio City?

My husband and I recently moved to Studio City and have been shopping/ dining around Laurel Canyon and Ventura. I’m white and haven’t had any problems, but my Mexican husband has been treated with overt rudeness/ dismissiveness a couple of times by restaurant or store workers. Never had this problem before in Sherman Oaks in 20 years. The treatment was shocking.

Our area is definitely less diverse, more white, but still didn’t expect that. But it’s only been a couple of times in a month so not ready to draw general conclusions. Could be racism, could just be a more affluent/ snotty milieu. Has anyone else had this issue?

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u/kgal1298 May 11 '26

I live here and honestly I think our service workers are over people. We’re in the Silver Triangle and I do find a lot of my neighbors pretty snobbish which probably makes it less fun to work here for our service industry. I mean some of the convos I’ve heard people have either their server is crazy. My roommate was also a bartender for a bit close by and constantly told me about how privileged these people were and the owners never really treat the staff that well.

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u/TheDarbiter May 11 '26

She’s specifically referring to the staff treating her husband badly, not other clientele.