Well.... 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 pop

Well.... 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"