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Those things do exist of course, but in 9 years of living here I don’t think I’ve ever heard the city referred to as “SFO.”
by baddox 7y ago
Those things do exist of course, but in 9 years of living here I don’t think I’ve ever heard the city referred to as “SFO.”
- np_tedious 7y agoDo many places do this? PDX / Portland is the only example I can think of offhand
- sneak 7y agoMany people who sysadmin machines/networks/routers in disparate places name them after their closest major/international three-letter airport code. I have a bunch of boxes named 'ewr{1,2,3}', 'sfo{1,2,3}', et c. You will frequently see this in traceroutes, for router hostnames. Some people use the meta-airport-codes (e.g. NYC instead of JFK/LGA) too.
- samatman 7y agoDFW for Dallas-Fort Worth is common Ed: "The ATL" for Atlanta is also a thing
- ajdlinux 7y agoMy rather small and unknown city, Canberra, is not regularly referred to as CBR in verbal conversation, but it's been adopted as part of the city's tourism brand.
- baddox 7y agoIn Springfield and St. Louis, MO we often referred to the cities by their airport codes SGF and STL. But those are both more plausible abbreviations in their own right than SFO.
- detaro 7y agoFrom what I see, it's less something done by people living somewhere but by people from elsewhere, e.g. when discussing travel plans.