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YourSoCal is a free guide to family things to do across Southern California, sorted by distance from your door, with the source for every fact. Here is what you can use.

The short version

Simir Shah is a dad of two girls (14 and 9) who spent his whole life in Chicago before moving his family to Southern California. He started YourSoCal because he was counting the weekends left before his oldest heads to college and couldn't find one honest place that answered “what should we do this weekend, and what will it really cost?” Read the full story on the About page.

Numbers you can cite

Counts update automatically from the live catalog.

1,150+
family places across Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego and the Inland Empire
900+
independent, non-chain restaurants
550+
independent local shops
700+
dated upcoming festivals and events
205
city guides

Story angles

  • Kids Free San Diego, with the fine print

    Every October San Diego lets kids in free at dozens of attractions. We checked each deal against the operator's own page and flagged where sources disagree (SeaWorld's child ages, LEGOLAND's kids-per-adult limit).

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  • What SoCal pumpkin patches actually cost

    Prices checked against each farm's own site, corrected publicly when two figures turned out wrong, with "not published" shown where a farm hasn't posted a price.

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  • A family guide that publishes its corrections

    Every fact is sourced, AI-drafted content is labeled, and a public log lists what we got wrong and fixed — including listings that had been taken over by spam domains.

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  • Moving to Southern California with kids

    School enrollment and TK cutoffs, Medi-Cal for children, emergency alerts and California licenses for people who can't prove legal presence — each point linked to the official page.

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  • The SoCal family events calendar you can subscribe to

    Festivals, parades, night markets, car shows and free museum days for the whole region as a calendar feed you can add to your phone.

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How we work

  • Prices, dates and hours come from the operator's own page; where a number isn't published we say so.
  • Content drafted by AI is labeled, and we don't claim visits we didn't make.
  • We don't run display ads; affiliate links are marked sponsored.
  • Corrections are public on our standards page.

Linking to us

Please link to yoursocal.com or to the specific page you're citing. If you list SoCal family resources, our free things to do, festivals and events calendar pages are the most useful starting points.

Contact

Simir Shah, founder: hello@yoursocal.com. Logos and photos are available on request. Find us on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest.