JZ, I'll call it Frisco if I damn well please. And, central? Please. if anywhere in the Bay Area is central it's Hayward. But, population center, San Jose is central to Santa Clara, Alviso, Milpitas, Campbell, Cupertino, Saratoga, Sunnyvale, Mountain Vew, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, Woodside, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Fremont, Newark, etc. All the cities that count.

I think they may have moved theaters on us last night in SF, which could account for the empty seats. We were originally scheduled for #5, but were in #6.

I'll call it Frisco if I damn well please

As well you should. You'd be wrong, but that's never stopped me before.

Frisco sounds too much like Crisco.

"Frisco" is wrong like the wrong name of wrongtown.

Anyway, when in the Bay area, San Francisco should be referred to as "The City."

eta: I don't know the way to San Jose. Do you?

Dude, all that is perfectly right and true, but most people who don't actually live in the South Bay don't know where any of those places are without pulling out a map. Everyone everywhere in the Bay Area knows where San Francisco is. I'm not trying to dis any of the other Bay Area cities or dis the South Bay; I'm just trying to guess how the people who did the deciding were thinking.

And, working from the tiny and biased sample of my friends and family, it's generally been my experience that Bayistas (not Buffista Bayistas, but it gives me the creeps to call them Bay Areans) know the cities they live and work in, any other local cities they may have lived and worked in, whatever cities are right adjacent to theirs, and San Francisco.

Many Bayistas are fuzzy on the distinction between Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville and Oakland. Most Contra Costans and most people from Berkely and anywhere north have zero idea of the South Bay past SFO (and I definitely include myself -- I only learned exactly where San Jose was two years ago when the Ren Faire moved to Gilroy). San Francisco isn't the biggest city in the Bay Area, but it's the one most immediately recognizable to movie-preview schedulers, and it's the one that most Bayistas have at least a vaguely decent idea of how to get to.

Cindy, I'm gonna have to squint at you. It just... it grates. It's like if I insisted on calling those Massachusetts towns WOE-burrrn and WAY-ban.

Anyway, when in the Bay area, San Francisco should be referred to as "The City."

No. "The City" is New York. When you're "going in town" you're going to Boston.

Frisco will just have to be Frisco.

Context edit

JZ - The greatest part of the Bay Area population has shifted south. And I agree with Topic!Cindy: "'The City' is New York."

"The City" is New York in the Tri-State Area. In the Bay Area, "The City" is San Francisco. I have no idea what "The City" is in Ohio or Kansas.

In Kansas, "The City" is Emerald City.

It's like Immortals: There can be only one "The City."