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The City is way too generic of a name. Bay Area people would only recognize this as SF--here in O.C., "The City" means Los Angeles. In NY, "The City" means NYC,

The City is way too generic of a name. Bay Area people would only recognize this as SF--here in O.C., "The City" means Los Angeles. In NY, "The City" means NYC, so on and so on.

stan_rogers 10y ago
...and most of the world would assume the City of London (the Square Mile, as opposed to Metropolitan London).
- tradersam 10y ago
  ...No, the point is the most of the world would assume "The City" to be whatever major city they are closest to.
- tutufan 10y ago
  Well, before Brexit anyway...
neom 10y ago
"The City" mean NYC everywhere buster, and don't you be forgetting it.
ryguytilidie 10y ago
"The City" makes sense when you are near a large city. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and you would hear "the city" a lot. When I moved to Oakland, you heard SF described as "the city" a lot. When I go visit friends in Brooklyn and they say lets go into "the city", its a generic name, but we all know what they mean.
- tradersam 10y ago
  Exactly my point.
tutufan 10y ago
In NY, "NY" means "NYC"...