Would you consider Fairfield as part of the SF Bay Area or Sac Valley? (San Diego: live, vs.)

[PixelatedTherapy]

http://www.dailyrepublic.com/solano-...en-bay-valley/

Interesting article.

[shelato]

The article was more interesting than I assumed it would be. Thanks for the link.

[PixelatedTherapy]

Originally Posted by shelato

The article was more interesting than I assumed it would be. Thanks for the link.

No problem!

[49erfan916]

Yuck! It's only Fairfield. Let the bay have it. Do you guys consider vacaville or davis to be part of the bay? Some people do.

[PixelatedTherapy]

In my view, from a city perspective, Benicia and Vallejo are definitely Bay Area, without any question. Fairfield and Suisun could be considered a gateway to both the Bay and the Valley, while Vacaville is not the Bay at all. It's a Sacramento suburb in my view.

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by PixelatedTherapy

In my view, from a city perspective, Benicia and Vallejo are definitely Bay Area, without any question. Fairfield and Suisun could be considered a gateway to both the Bay and the Valley, while Vacaville is not the Bay at all. It's a Sacramento suburb in my view.

I agree with you. Fairfield is both the Bay and Sac, lets say 2/3 the Bay, 1/3 Sac.

Vacaville is the opposite 2/3 Sac; 1/3 the Bay. Dixon is all Sac.

Davis is All Sac. Davis has bay area students, but it has a lot of SoCal students as well, that doesn't make it part of LA. Davis also has a lot of Sac Area students, and a lot of international students, and students from all over the country. Non-students that reside in Davis, mostly work in Davis and the Sacramento area.

It's funny how the bay area claims Davis, the only place or thing they will claim about Sacramento, even though it's sits in the heart of the Sacramento Valley, it's only 9 miles miles from West Sacramento, and 12 miles from downtown Sacramento. Remember, Davis's huge medical campus and teaching hospital is in Sacramento.

Like Fairfield, there are two other cities that one could say are BOTH the Bay and the Valley. That would be Stockton and Tracy.

Stockton is very bay area(in a bad way) yet it sits in the San Joaquin Valley. It has the highest workers who commute to the bay from the valley. Of the Valley cities, Stockton is one of the closest cities to the bay.

Tracy is very much a Valley city and it sits on the western edge of the Valley but because it is so close to the bay especially the Livermore Valley it has a lot bay area commuters/workers.

[KC6ZLV]

I don't consider Fairfield as part of either area. I think of it as part of the area from Vallejo to Vacaville, with Fairfield and Vacaville having a strong influence from both Sacramento and the Bay Area. I also think being part of the Bay Area vs Sacramento is a silly mindset.

I also remember about 10 to 15 years ago there was a group of people in Davis who thought that being considered part of Sacramento wasn't good enough for them, so they insisted Davis was part of the Bay Area even though you can see Downtown Sacramento if you stood out in an open field in Davis.

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by KC6ZLV

I I also think being part of the Bay Area vs Sacramento is a silly mindset.

I completely agree. It's really Bay people that have a problem understanding how well connected they both are for various different reasons.

The Sac/Bay Area (NorCal) including the whole Sacramento Valley, and the Northern San Joaquin Valley is "NorCal".

The Sac/Bay Area is really become like SoCal in that SoCal from Santa Barbara to San Diego, the Beaches to the Palms Springs Desert Communities has always has been thought of as one area, one entity -- "Southern California" (SoCal).

"SoCal" has always been the area I just described and Southern Californians have always understood this and understood their connection. Yes, of course, there are distinctions like the OC vs. LA., the San Fernando Valley vs. LA Basin, San Diego's independence and disconnection from LA, and so on, the distinctions between other large cities in SoCal like Long Beach, Pasadena, Anaheim, for example....But there has always been this connection that they all are "SoCal", always has been. Back in the day, when even the City of LA had huge gaps between Hollywood, Downtown LA, and Santa Monica....it was all Southern California. When all the Beach cities and towns were clearly separate with huge gaps between them it was all Southern California. Even back in the Old Hollywood Days(1920-30's) Hollywood down to Laguna Beach (65 miles away) it was all considered as "Southern California", one entity. This is when huge farms separated all the SoCal cities and towns; it was still all considered as "Southern California", one entity.

"NorCal" has never really had this strong identity until the last 15-20 years and still you have your Bay snobs that choose not to understand this. San Francisco has always been provincial and still is.

Sorry for the mini-rant......LOL.

[Robertfchew]

It doesn't have an identity to me. If you're in mid Fairfield it looks exactly like Sacramento and is just as hot. I don't know where they got that 89 degree average from.

[Robertfchew]

Originally Posted by shelato

The article was more interesting than I assumed it would be. Thanks for the link.

Same it was interesting to see how the different meterological and agricultural groups viewed themselves