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Everyone 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 u
by 4death4 3y ago
Everyone 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".