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Rockford Hills

Rockford Hills is an affluent district in northern Los Santos, Grand Theft Auto V's fictional Southern Californian city.

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Overview

Rockford Hills is Los Santos’ affluent western district, built around designer shopping, expensive homes, public institutions and the city’s most conspicuous concentration of wealth. It is not simply the area around Portola Drive. In the game’s broader location hierarchy, Rockford Hills includes the smaller neighbourhood of Burton, while also bordering or overlapping visually with several separate districts, including Richman, Morningwood, Vinewood Hills, Alta, Hawick, Little Seoul and Downtown Los Santos.

The district is where Michael De Santa’s post-retirement life is staged, where Franklin first enters the orbit of the city’s wealthy criminal class, and where the contrast between Los Santos’ polished surface and its underlying violence is particularly sharp. It combines a residential northern section with an intensely commercial southern section, centred on Portola Drive and the Rockford Plaza shopping centre.

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