Americans would disagree! See: http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_95.html http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_95....

Americans would disagree! See: http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_95.html http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_95.... Also, perhaps even moreso than other places in the US, "The City" (capitalized, with extra stress on each syllable) has long been an affectation in the Bay Area & Northern California to refer to San Francisco proper. See especially the columns of Herb Caen and regional anthems like Journey's "When The Lights Go Down (in The City)".