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Well, it either outs you as a non-San Franciscan or a poor one, since that's the native demographic that's historically called it 'Frisco'. Really, the frisco s
by zjp 3y ago
Well, it either outs you as a non-San Franciscan or a poor one, since that's the native demographic that's historically called it 'Frisco'. Really, the frisco should be 'San Fran'.
- dekhn 3y agonah it's SF ("ess eff")
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoI know plenty of people who live in San Fransisco who will happily call it "SF". "Frisco" and "San Fran" are definitely far more egregious.
- dekhn 3y agoWell, people also call SF "The City" but having grown up around NYC, it's a little hard to take that seriously.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoI've only seen that one used in conversation when the context is already Bay Area focused, like "Hey, we're going into the city for a night out Friday. You down?" It's definitely a regionalism, as there are 80 something cities in the Bay Area and "The City" definitely refers to SF, but it's not something I'd hear someone say in broader contexts. One regionalism that Bay Area dwellers DO use in broader contexts is referring to the San Fransisco Bay Area as just "The Bay", which I'm sure could be unclear to somebody near a different body of water.
- dekhn 3y agothere are many bay areas, but SF is the Bay Area.
- 4death4 3y agoEveryone I've ever met uses "the city" to refer to the closest metropolis. NYC isn't special in this regard. Take a short drive up to New England. People will use "the city" when talking about Boston.
- dekhn 3y agoWell.... I grew up exactly between Boston and NYC and nobody called Boston "the city". It's just hard to think of SF as a metropolis- even with its densely populated downtown- when you can sort of just plonk its 750K residents down in the borough of manhattan (half the size, twice the population). When I lived in outer sunset, it was more like "the beach, with a park, oh and a mildly urbanized area to the east"
- vsnf 3y agoAs someone from Boston, "the city" as destination is the nearest city, whether that's Chicago, Toronto, or Seattle. "The City" as proper noun is New York.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoTo clarify, what makes it weird is that anywhere else, Oakland and San Jose (and if you go far flung enough, a dozen other Bay Area cities) could well be "the city". It's not even just a size thing, San Jose is bigger than San Fransisco.
- bombcar 3y agoIf you're really cool you refer to the nearest metropolis as "town". Driving into NYC? You're "going into town".