Suburbs of San Francisco and Oakland (San Jose, Fremont: to live, area codes, rail)

[SanJose_121]

Everything in the Bay Area is a suburb of SJ...the most populous....richest...largest...diverse..economica lly dominant city in this region...dont get mad just accept it

[jman650]

Originally Posted by SanJose_121

Everything in the Bay Area is a suburb of SJ...the most populous....richest...largest...diverse..economica lly dominant city in this region...dont get mad just accept it

LOL yeah, what he said. And everything in Florida is a suburb on Jacksonville, even Miami, since Jacksonville's so much bigger LOL. Come to San Jose and see how "urban" it is.

[SanJose_121]

Originally Posted by jman650

LOL yeah, what he said. And everything in Florida is a suburb on Jacksonville, even Miami, since Jacksonville's so much bigger LOL. Come to San Jose and see how "urban" it is.

is jacksonville dominant like SJ?


your mad i can tell..

[jman650]

Originally Posted by SanJose_121

is jacksonville dominant like SJ?


your mad i can tell..

Lol why, would it help your SJ inferiority complex if I was mad? Sorry, can't help you there. Its tough to get mad at a completely unrealistic statement like that.

Dominant like SJ? Yeah, I'd say it is, since all SJ really dominates aside from tech jobs is land space and population. But its okay, you go ahead and keep think SJ is dominant. Maybe eventually it even will be. Just not today.

[krudmonk]

Originally Posted by SanJose_121

Everything in the Bay Area is a suburb of SJ...the most populous....richest...largest...diverse..economica lly dominant city in this region...dont get mad just accept it

The only suburbs of San Jose are those immediately surrounding it in the valley. Many have some nice downtowns and are rich in tech industry, but often identify as "San Jose" from my experience. I've encountered people from Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino and even Morgan Hill who described themselves as being from San Jose. I doubt anyone up north would do such. Places like Palo Alto and Berkeley probably don't adhere to any other cities. "Suburb" is as much matter of identity as size or influence. The Bay Area is polycentric with even more satellite cities. That's why we constantly have this [sometimes ridiculous] debates.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

The San Francisco Metro cannot accept its megalopolis status the way other similar areas have. For example, if a person from Long Beach, La Mirada or La Canada is in say, Paris, they'll tell people they are from LA. Short and simple. Whereas, a person from San Jose, Santa Clara or San Mateo will say "I am from xxxxx" and name their actual address city. Then when they get the glazed over look they have to then say "It's a city, blah, blah blah miles from San Francisco." Then the Parisian thinks "sacrebleu, another Ugly American!"

Pretty lame in my book ...

[Tallysmom]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

The San Francisco Metro cannot accept its megalopolis status the way other similar areas have. For example, if a person from Long Beach, La Mirada or La Canada is in say, Paris, they'll tell people they are from LA. Short and simple. Whereas, a person from San Jose, Santa Clara or San Mateo will say "I am from xxxxx" and name their actual address city. Then when they get the glazed over look they have to then say "It's a city, blah, blah blah miles from San Francisco." Then the Parisian thinks "sacrebleu, another Ugly American!"

Pretty lame in my book ...

Do you think that might have something to do with the vague moniker of "The Bay Area"? It doesn't really say where you are from, because other places have bays so there really are other bay areas, and yet, we sort of expect people to understand where when we say we are from The Bay Area (which also always MUST BE CAPITALIZED)

I tell people I'm from Oakland, like I used to tell people I was from Mars, when I lived in Pennsylvania. Frankly, it was more fun to tell people I was from Mars, then Cranberry Twp had to ruin it by getting their own Post Office and suddenly I wasn't from Mars anymore.

But when I travel (a very rare thing now that we own our own business...) I say I'm from near San Francisco. I say near because invariably people will start reeling off places they've been and restuarants they've gone to and I won't know any of those things...

[jman650]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

The San Francisco Metro cannot accept its megalopolis status the way other similar areas have. For example, if a person from Long Beach, La Mirada or La Canada is in say, Paris, they'll tell people they are from LA. Short and simple. Whereas, a person from San Jose, Santa Clara or San Mateo will say "I am from xxxxx" and name their actual address city. Then when they get the glazed over look they have to then say "It's a city, blah, blah blah miles from San Francisco." Then the Parisian thinks "sacrebleu, another Ugly American!"

Pretty lame in my book ...

I agree that is pretty lame if someone does that, but I can't think of a time I've heard someone do that. I can definitely speak on the San Mateo example, b/c that's where I grew up. Everyone I knew would identify with San Francisco when out of town b/c we all knew that no one would know where San Mateo is. Actually anyone I know from the entire Peninsula would know to identify with either SF or SJ depending on where they were from. I'm not sure where you're getting this idea exactly. Do you know many people who actually would state their address city to someone they knew would never have heard of it?

[Taboo2]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

The San Francisco Metro cannot accept its megalopolis status the way other similar areas have. For example, if a person from Long Beach, La Mirada or La Canada is in say, Paris, they'll tell people they are from LA. Short and simple. Whereas, a person from San Jose, Santa Clara or San Mateo will say "I am from xxxxx" and name their actual address city. Then when they get the glazed over look they have to then say "It's a city, blah, blah blah miles from San Francisco." Then the Parisian thinks "sacrebleu, another Ugly American!"

Pretty lame in my book ...

Agreed, La Canada'ns don't say Pasadena even.

I used to say San Francisco (we were San Anselmo and Sebastopol) and they said "isn't everyone gay?", Now I could say Oakland and they would say "Isn't everyone a gang banger?" or I could say San Jose and they would say "Are you a tech-y?"


I have said "The bay area" and they asked which one? I said how many are there? So i still had to specify, and it wasn't OAKLAND and it wasn't SAN JOSE, it was SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA which is why SF still wins as the main locale here.
Who cares.

[krudmonk]

Originally Posted by Taboo2

I have said "The bay area" and they asked which one? I said how many are there? So i still had to specify, and it wasn't OAKLAND and it wasn't SAN JOSE, it was SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA which is why SF still wins as the main locale here.
Who cares.

Just being pedantic and repetitive: It's not a "bay area" named after San Francisco, but an area named for San Francisco Bay...