Geography
Neptune is a coastal community located between San Diego and Los Angeles on the route of California's Pacific Coast Highway. Many locations in California are named after Vasco Núñez de Balboa, including the Balboa Peninsula section of Newport Beach in Orange County and San Diego's Balboa Park. In reality, State Route 1 does not run south of Orange County.
The series states that Neptune is within a day-trip distance to Tijuana; while this is technically consistent with a location in Orange County, it's much more likely to indicate a location in San Diego County, which actually shares a border with Tijuana and sees a high level of cross-border traffic. Furthermore, the North County area is home to a large number of technology firms, which are responsible for much of its affluence and which may have served as an inspiration for Kane Software. Series creator Rob Thomas stated in an interview that Neptune is located near San Juan Capistrano in Orange County. Southern Orange County calls State Route 1 the "PCH", uses the moniker "South Coast" for many organizations (such as the South Coast OB/GYN Society in "The Rapes of Graff", is a suburb of both Los Angeles and San Diego, is located close enough to Tijuana for day-trips, and has a considerable Latino population that works in the service industry.
Neptune scenes are generally filmed in San Diego County, and exteriors of all of the show's most notable locations are found there. For example, exteriors of the Mars residence are filmed in Point Loma, and exteriors of Mars Investigations are filmed on Adams Avenue in Normal Heights. Oceanside High School in Oceanside, CA doubles as the fictional Neptune High, and San Diego State University, University of California, San Diego and University of San Diego are portrayed as the fictional Hearst College.
The closest real zip codes to 90909 are 90899, which belongs to Long Beach, California, 91001 which belongs to Altadena, California, and 92009 which belongs to Carlsbad, California. 909xx series zip codes are an unassigned series in the greater Los Angeles zipspace.
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