A "Hacker's" Guide to the Bay Area

Re:A "Hacker's" Guide to the Bay Area by _delirium on Saturday October 05, 2013 @10:52PM (#6502899)

"SF isn't north enough to be Northern California" is a common view of people who live in Eureka, Redding, etc., but in my experience people who live in SF think of it as northern California. California basically has two big centers of population: SoCal is LA and friends, and NorCal is SF and friends. Above that are remote regions heard of in legends (either old legends about the gold rush, or newer legends about pot farming).

The Bay Area is definitely not within Central California, taken as a sociogeographic term. The Central California Coast is the coastal region between roughly Santa Barbara and Point Lobos, centered on SLO. There is also another inland definition of Central California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_California

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Re:A "Hacker's" Guide to the Bay Area by bradL on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:21AM (#6508773)

I would make the comparison to "Upstate New York" [0]. I like this Wikipedia article more than the one for Northern California because it admits that "there is no clear or official boundary between Upstate New York and Downstate New York".

The same is true for Northern and Southern California. There's no official distinction. Calling the Bay Area part of Northern California places too much emphasis on the Los Angeles area. By analogy, saying that "North" begins at the Transverse Ranges is like saying that "Upstate" begins at Yonkers. Ridiculous.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstate_New_York

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Re:A "Hacker's" Guide to the Bay Area by crapshoot101 on Sunday October 06, 2013 @02:22PM (#6504889)

Yeah, we are in NorCal for all practical purposes; actual geography be damned.

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