You can be pretentious about your local metro region and still be original. Consider Boston, "The hub of the universe", or "The Hub" for short. It exhibits all

You can be pretentious about your local metro region and still be original. Consider Boston, "The hub of the universe", or "The Hub" for short. It exhibits all the hubris of having your own "The City" without all the confusion. San Francisco needs their own Oliver Wendall Holmes to come up with something as catchy... or the rest of us can just agree to just start calling it "Frisco", which solves the confusion problem while trolling the city's inhabitants at the same time (a win-win)!