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Kind of impressed that slate managed to call an incorporated city in a different county a “suburb in sf”.

Emeryville is a 10 minute drive from SF, or 1 mile away from a BART station that gets you to SF in 15 minutes. It is a suburb of SF or a suburb in the SF Bay Area.

I would have called it a suburb of Oakland :)

No mention of the haunted IKEA either

What makes the IKEA haunted? I’ve been there a few times, but haven’t heard anything

Literal burial ground :)

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008

Emeryville is not a suburb of anywhere. It has 30k jobs and only 12k people. If anything all the cities that surround it are suburbs of Emeryville.

It can be 30+ minutes in traffic. I did the Emeryville<->SF commute once when offices opened back up, then decided I needed to move back into the city.

SF is a suburb of SJ.

I was a SF resident for 15 years then moved to the East Coast. Some notes from East Coasters:

a) SF (the city) starts at the Golden Gate bridge and runs all the way to San Jose.

b) Redwood city, San Jose and Oakland - anything located 50 miles around SF - these are all suburbs of SF.

c) The entire state burns every summer.

As a San Jose resident this all seems pretty accurate TBH.

As a SoCal resident (c) is super accurate

It's kind of funny. People who live outside of SF will say "Oh, I live in a <insert city>, it's so nice".

Then when talking to anyone from outside the Bay Area it's "I live in San Francisco", even it's take an hour to drive to the city proper.

Basically if you fly out of SFO or Oakland Airport when you fly anywhere it's considered in this bucket for folks outside the area. It's such a huge difference and broad swath of cities/towns. From north of the bridge down to sf to Santa cruz to the east bay, San Jose and even further south. It's so much, so complex, and rich in ways not known by simply summarizing it all as SF suburbs.

Similarly, real expectations our friends from NYC when visiting Colorado: 1- Buffalo would be roaming the streets 2- people would be riding horses around town 3- we would be skiing everywhere

Their real responses to visiting: "Where are all the people"

The whole bay area is SF to anyone not from the area. The city/county boundaries aren’t what people care about when describing a general area.

Most people from london don’t live in “city of london”

We live in Greater London, with the Mayor of London (the City has a Lord Mayor). We tend to adjust our local government boundaries to match development, or create green belts to prevent sprawl.

In the greater SF Bay Area, the various cities and counties mostly already existed before the sprawl occurred. Adjusting local government boundaries at this point would be difficult. There are green belts, mostly in the surrounding hills.

Yeah, I live in London, but I have to say I say I live in Toronto (nearly 200km away) or else people think I'm in UK even if they know I'm in an American timezone

The whole bay area is also Silicon Valley to anyone not from the area

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