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Cities Atlanta Austin Boston. Chicago Detroit Los Angeles. New York San Francisco Archive. Filed under: San Francisco News. Strangely, 4. I only say "San Francisco". I say "San Fran". I say "Frisco". I say "The City". It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. If I want to travel around San Francisco without sounding like a rube, what should I call it? Most locals just call it the City , when it's clear from context that you are talking about the local area.
You could say: "I'm staying at a nice hotel in the City". This will be understood to mean "within the San Francisco city limits. In writing, capitalization is optional. Otherwise, simply call it "San Francisco". There isn't a shorter nickname in common use. It is a lot of syllables; locals tend to say it fast and slur a bit, something like "Sanfruh sisko". Spanish speakers should note that, as with most Spanish place-names in California, most English-speaking locals use a semi-anglicized pronunciation.
The vowel in "Fran" is either the same vowel as "San", or else an unstressed "schwa" vowel. I personally have never heard or seen "SFX". Locals tend to find "Frisco" particularly annoying, and allegedly have felt this way since I think there's a convention that people who work in the airline industry are "allowed" to say "SanFran".
So the agent at the airport ticket counter might tell you "Your bags are checked through to SanFran", but don't take that as an indication of general practice. If you want to refer to the greater metropolitan area including Oakland, San Jose, etc , and not just the city proper, it's "the Bay Area".
This is further subdivided into "North Bay" north of the Bay itself, e. There is no "West Bay". As a side note, I don't think locals use the term "Silicon Valley" much; they're more likely to refer to specific cities like Palo Alto, Santa Clara, etc. Source: born and raised in the North Bay, and visit frequently. If there are emerging trends that differ from this, suggestions are welcome!
I lived in the East Bay Area, and someone would say something like Let's go get dinner in the City and this would mean that you are going to San Francisco.
However, I feel that it would be better to say San Francisco when you are in San Francisco as saying the City , at least in my perception of it, is referring to San Francisco when elsewhere in the Bay Area. I think this is a very much opinion-based question and experiences will vary greatly from person to person, even amongst locals -- so take all these answers with a grain of salt. I was born and raised in San Francisco proper, and I personally like to use SF in both speech and text a lot because it is short and simple.
I think most of my friends do the same. If your goal is to try to pretend to be a local, I suppose some of these answers may help you. However, if you're just trying to be more likeable to the locals, I'd like to point out that most people don't really care what you call the city. SF is a diverse city and many people don't speak English well enough to care about a detail like this. I grew up in an immigrant family and we really don't care.
Even among proficient English speakers, the ones that do care are a minority and these are the people you probably want to avoid anyway. It's really odd that people living in a major city or region are LESS likely to give it catchy nicknames. I remember, for a time in the 90ss, "SoCal" was used a lot. Now I hear it a lot less. People from that area tend to say they're from "Southern California" if they don't want to be more specific.
But chances are, especially, if they're non-white, they're from the LA area. I've never heard of a shortened way of saying The Bay Area before. Maybe I'm just not that used to it, but it sounds bad to me. Now, when people say "the city," I think they're just referring to the city in general, the way you would refer to any major city in a metropolitan area.
I've always thought "The City" was very pretentious. Why is SF "The City? Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. What do locals call San Francisco? Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 9 months ago. Active 3 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 25k times.
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