San Fran is so expensive, some tech companies can't convince employees to move

Re:San Fran is so expensive, some tech companies can't convi... by seiferteric on Monday April 10, 2017 @08:36PM (#14083850)

Oddly enough my pet peeve is people calling it "The City". Something so grating an arrogant about it, like other cities in the area don't exist, so of course you must be talking about SF. Also, I am pretty sure people from NY would probably laugh hearing people referring to SF as "The City"

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Re:San Fran is so expensive, some tech companies can't convi... by grzm on Monday April 10, 2017 @08:41PM (#14083888)

I think this is common in and around any major city. I've lived in or near five major cities in the US and the only one that didn't have some use of "the city" was in Minnesota, where "the cities" is used instead to refer to Minneapolis/St. Paul.

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Re:San Fran is so expensive, some tech companies can't convi... by seiferteric on Monday April 10, 2017 @08:46PM (#14083925)

Yes I know, although growing up in the bay area, I don't really remember people calling SF "The City" until relatively (maybe last 10-15 years) recently, but maybe I just missed it when I was younger.

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Re:San Fran is so expensive, some tech companies can't convi... by dottrap on Monday April 10, 2017 @08:57PM (#14083983)

Even more odd is that San Jose is a larger city than San Francisco.

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