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> the bay area It's always interesting that anyone who lives in a "Bay", refers to their local as THE Bay. For this phenomenon, which is documented as circling
by Nekhrimah 5y ago
> the bay area
It's always interesting that anyone who lives in a "Bay", refers to their local as THE Bay. For this phenomenon, which is documented as circling the globe, who knows where this could be!
- rjeli 5y agono, there’s multiple areas with bays, there’s only one Bay Area.
- yesenadam 5y ago> there’s only one Bay Area I suspected you were just assuming that, so I googled it, and found quite a few.
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- kenneth 5y agoThe "Bay Area" is well known to refer (only) to the San Francisco Bay, while the "Greater Bay Area" is known to only refer to the Pearl River Delta Bay (HK, Macau, Guangdong). Other bays are typically named more specifically (e.g. Tokyo Bay, Monterey Bay, etc.). You'd be more on point if OP had referred to San Francisco as "The City" as many in the City do; since that's something that's also used in other cities like NYC. NB: current resident of the Greater Bay Area in China and former resident of the lesser Bay Area in California.