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You lost credibility with me by repeated use of the vulgar "San Fran". It's THE CITY. :)

Tell a New Yorker that SF is called The City and they're guaranteed to laugh ;)

Saul Steinberg might put you guys on his map if it were to be made today, but you never know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Aven...

Yes, no one from the Bay Area refers to San Francisco as "San Fran". Even worse is when people refer to it as "Frisco". It's either SF or "The City".

Only _some_ people from the city proper frown upon "San Fran", frisco, etc. Most people don't care and more over people that I know from elsewhere in the Bay area do some times call it San Fran or Frisco, if only to annoy people who get annoyed by the monikers.

I couldn't care less what people call it. When I lived in towns closer to San Jose, 'San Jose' was the reference 'city'.

The only people who seem to get annoyed with the term "San Fran" and Frisco are either transplants or hipsters(which are usually transplants to begin with). Some of the old schoolers and hip hop community still use the term Frisco.

"The City" refers to the core of whatever urban area you're in. It's meaningless outside of your local frame of reference. The only place in the US that has a halfway legitimate claim universal ownership of that name is NYC and that's tenuous at best.

If you read more carefully, I said people from the Bay Area call SF "The City". I didn't say it was the universal name for SF, just for the people in the area.

Sure, but if you read more carefully, you'd understand the context for the rest of the entire conversation is national, if not North American.

You can't expect everyone to switch context on your whim simply because you want to.

What part of the Mission do you live in?

Dolores.

San Diego, THE CITY, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver

Yep, I can see how that would work.

:) upvote for not having LA in that reply.

Hah, I thought exactly the same. Even out here in Sacramento people call it "The City" (fair enough, Sacramento is just a big-ass, boring suburban sprawl)

I just visited Sacramento this summer, and it seemed about 100x more interesting than where I'm from.

Well, where are you from? I'm so sad for you right now...

The middle of Wisconsin. But don't mourn for me. I always find things to do.

Coming as an Australian, where our brand of English is inherently lazy and involves skipping syllables wherever possible, the idea that you would frown upon a simple shortening of the name is ridiculous. Frisco does sound pretty lame though, I can understand that one.

Don't you mean Frisco?

Actually, it's 'frisco'

mmm.....

Disagree: http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/dont-call-it-frisco-laundroma...

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