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If you look at the concentration of blue in the Bay Area, you can see that they need to add a city to "What is 'the City'?": http://www.businessinsider.com/22-
by mhartl 13y ago
If you look at the concentration of blue in the Bay Area, you can see that they need to add a city to "What is 'the City'?":
http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6#most-of-america-realizes-that-new-york-really-is-the-city-20 http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest...
Hint: It's not San José.
- rayiner 13y agoIt wasn't a game of "which of these does not belong."
- mhartl 13y agoMy point was that everyone around San Francisco calls it "the City" (even those in more populous San José), so they would have done well to add it to their set. In contrast, people around, say, Los Angeles don't typically call it "the City", so leaving out LA is not a relevant omission.
- rayiner 13y agoPeople around Sioux Falls, SD call it "the city" doesn't mean it should be added to the chart.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoDoes anyone actually say Los Angeles? Maybe in Louisiana whose abbreviation is LA?
- CatMtKing 13y agoYou know, I'm a little surprised that Socal doesn't have a similar concentration around LA.
- epoxyhockey 13y agoLA is just called LA, though people do say downtown LA. I've only heard of San Francisco being referred to as the City by West Coasters.
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- rayiner 13y agoThat's because people don't think of LA as a city, just a slightly more urbanized area within the larger semi-suburban expanse of the metro area.
- kbutler 13y agoSimilarly around Salt Lake City - you may go "downtown" but not to "the City". It probably has to do with the density gradient. With more spread out urban areas having less distinction between "the city" and outlying areas.
- moheeb 13y agoIt's all city down there...that's why.
- hal9k 13y agoYeah, I'm surprised San Francisco wasn't one of the options. Clearly the administer of this survey isn't from the Bay Area.
- epmatsw 13y agoGeorgia has a similar thing going on. Looks like a pretty large radius around Atlanta thinks Atlanta is "the City".
- rjbwork 13y agoAtlantan here. This was my first thought as well. Pretty much anyone in Georgia and a little bit into the surrounding states think that too. People on the coast of Georgia usually refer to Savannah though.
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