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The location of Lawndale is endlessly debated, and even the show's creators tended to keep it loose. Glenn Eichler suggested in an interview that it might be a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, and this is a frequently used location for many fanfics whose authors caught the hint. However, evidence in the series and Eichler's further comments allow for other locations as well, possibly into eastern Pennsylvania near Philadelphia.
[[Image:Governorsayscrap.jpg|thumb|right|The guv'nor.]]
Whichever state Lawndale's located in, its voters get to vote on whether or not they have a property tax increase ("[[Fizz Ed]]"). For the three years Daria was there, they voted against it every time despite the known impact on school funding. The third time, the governor was quoted saying "crap". ("[[Fizz Ed]]")
Lawndale dates back to colonial times: a newspaper article seen briefly in "[[See Jane Run]]" mentions roadworks found "that the street lies over a pre-revolutionary Dutch Orthodox cemetery" (presumably meaning Dutch followers of an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Orthodox_Churches orthodox church], not the name of the sect). Depending on your view of Lawndale's state, that means it was either a Dutch colony or had a Dutch migrant community. (Maryland's Cecil County had Dutch North American holdings)
Lawndale is within reasonable driving distance of the coast (the Sloane's have a summer home there), somewhere with southern accents ("[[I Don't]]"; in the same interview, Eichler indicated this was Virginia), a rural desert with "cowboy" accents ("[[Speedtrapped]]"), and [[Camp Grizzly]].
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