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Yes, I worked in Moutain View, AKA MTV.

And the SF office of Google is SFO. But nobody calls the city SFO.



Maybe you call it that if the entire point of the city to you is just the office, haha. I do hesitate to call my home city "LAX."


At least LAX is in Los Angeles. Not true of SFO.


While SFO isn't in the city limits, it is owned by the City and is in an unincorporated section of San Mateo; the SF police have a significant presence (probably the largest force) on site.


I call it BUR.


>> But nobody calls the city SFO.

Yes they do. And some also call it Frisco and San Fran.

After 35 years in the Bay Area I have settled on calling it "The City" but will bust out with "San Fran Frisco" on special occasions to just to be irritating to those who desperately want to "fit in."


I've never heard anyone from there call it San Fran. That's almost as weird as calling the state Cali.


He's explicitly attempting to trigger people who agree with Herb Caen ("Don't call it Frisco").


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