Governors parking SUVS as gas prices soar

When my Mom lived in "Frisco" (during WWII) it was the prefered term for
it. Then the folks
got pretentious and wanted to be called "The City" as if, New York,
Chicago, London and Paris
didn't even exist
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We had reverse snobbery -- Manhattan was referred to by us
bridge-and-tunnel types as "in town."

Rich, Urban Biker (and native New Yorker)

 

That's okay; they're allowed to think that.

A few years ago some arbiter of geography renamed the San Francisco-San
Jose-Oakland Metropolitan Area as the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland
Metropolitan Area because SJ had grown to become larger than the other two
cities. This irritated some Fan Franciscans. Then another news cycle happened
and they got over it.
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When I lived in SF, San Jose was in a separate SMSA which comprised
Santa Clara County. The San Francisco SMSA included Alameda County. I
guess sprawl has reached the point where it makes no sense to draw a
line at San Francisquito Creek anymore.