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Yes, no one from the Bay Area refers to San Francisco as "San Fran". Even worse is when people refer to it as "Frisco". It's either SF or "The City".
by kjackson2012 14y ago
Yes, no one from the Bay Area refers to San Francisco as "San Fran". Even worse is when people refer to it as "Frisco". It's either SF or "The City".
- mc32 14y agoOnly _some_ people from the city proper frown upon "San Fran", frisco, etc. Most people don't care and more over people that I know from elsewhere in the Bay area do some times call it San Fran or Frisco, if only to annoy people who get annoyed by the monikers. I couldn't care less what people call it. When I lived in towns closer to San Jose, 'San Jose' was the reference 'city'.
- titlex 14y agoThe only people who seem to get annoyed with the term "San Fran" and Frisco are either transplants or hipsters(which are usually transplants to begin with). Some of the old schoolers and hip hop community still use the term Frisco.
- juan_juarez 14y ago"The City" refers to the core of whatever urban area you're in. It's meaningless outside of your local frame of reference. The only place in the US that has a halfway legitimate claim universal ownership of that name is NYC and that's tenuous at best.
- kjackson2012 14y agoIf you read more carefully, I said people from the Bay Area call SF "The City". I didn't say it was the universal name for SF, just for the people in the area.
- run4yourlives 14y agoSure, but if you read more carefully, you'd understand the context for the rest of the entire conversation is national, if not North American. You can't expect everyone to switch context on your whim simply because you want to.