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It's weird when people call the city "SFO". My first thought was, why is it in an airport?
by LeoPanthera 4y ago
It's weird when people call the city "SFO". My first thought was, why is it in an airport?
- taxman22 4y agoIt must be a Canadian who wrote that
- benatkin 4y agoIt's optimal IMO. Anything shorter is too ambiguous, anything longer is longer than it needs to be.
- free_rider 4y agoYou think "SF" is ambiguous compared to SFO?
- benatkin 4y agoYes especially when you consider things that aren't places. Science Fiction being a big one. There's Santa Fe, CDMX though. You may have decided that Santa Fe, NM is too small, but you may not have considered that one. People don't normally call that SF though - but they could. And that's why SF ought to have a more narrow use than SFO.
- woodson 4y agoPeople refer to Portland as PDX a lot. Perhaps it’s a trend.
- benatkin 4y agoPL. PO. I don't think either of those work :)
- just_boost_it 4y agoIf you travel at all for work, you find that some cities have a second airport miles outside the city, or there are lots of cities with two names. The airport codes for different cities then start to become synonyms for the cities because that's what you type when you're going there. Other people have different reasons for doing things, everything is weird when you think about it, and when you think about it a little more you realize that means that nothing is weird, just different.
- actually_a_dog 4y agoWell, I think it’s just as weird to refer to it as “the City,” as if there aren’t literally over 100 cities in the 9 Bay Area counties.
- 650REDHAIR 4y agoThere are only two “the city” cities in America. New York and SF. If someone asks me where I’m from, anywhere between Santa Cruz and Sacramento, and I say “the city” they will know it’s SF.
- throwaway1851 4y agoEspecially weird since SFO is not in San Francisco.
- benatkin 4y agoand the event is for the whole metro area and people who want to travel there, but closer to SFO than the other airports
- echelon 4y ago"ATL" got lucky. I couldn't think of anything else to call our city in just three letters. Plus our airport itself is huge. "Busiest airport in the world" (usually).
- saurik 4y agoFWIW that was my second thought; my first thought was "wow that's super convenient!!!"... and then I was sorely disappointed :(.