Rest assured, my definition of "Bay Area" is the same as yours. One poster, for whatever reason, didn't like me using the phrase "commute to Cupertino from the

Rest assured, my definition of "Bay Area" is the same as yours. One poster, for whatever reason, didn't like me using the phrase "commute to Cupertino from the Bay Area every day". My Edit to that poster should have been clearer, but all I'm saying is that people I know describe themselves as going to "South Bay" when referring to their commute from the Peninsula to Cupertino, to distinguish the subregion from the whole region.