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People in tech companies with many offices tend to call cities by the nearest airport, cause that's what the local office (or datacenter) is called.

• dekhn 4y ago
  Yes, I worked in Moutain View, AKA MTV. And the SF office of Google is SFO. But nobody calls the city SFO.
  • hot_gril 4y ago
    Maybe you call it that if the entire point of the city to you is just the office, haha. I do hesitate to call my home city "LAX."
    • dekhn 4y ago
      I call it BUR.
    • avisser 4y ago
      At least LAX is in Los Angeles. Not true of SFO.
      • dekhn 4y ago
        While SFO isn't in the city limits, it is owned by the City and is in an unincorporated section of San Mateo; the SF police have a significant presence (probably the largest force) on site.
  • tanseydavid 4y ago
    >> But nobody calls the city SFO. Yes they do. And some also call it Frisco and San Fran. After 35 years in the Bay Area I have settled on calling it "The City" but will bust out with "San Fran Frisco" on special occasions to just to be irritating to those who desperately want to "fit in."
    • bombcar 4y ago
      Cisco™ is a registered trademark of Cisco Systems™.
    • hot_gril 4y ago
      I've never heard anyone from there call it San Fran. That's almost as weird as calling the state Cali.
      • dekhn 4y ago
        He's explicitly attempting to trigger people who agree with Herb Caen ("Don't call it Frisco").