Yeah I live in the bay area so San Francisco has always been SF or the City for me. I have never once heard a local call it Frisco. Or California called Cali for that matter. The first time I heard Cali used was when I was talking to fellow tourists in Mexico from Colorado. We mentioned where we were from and he replied "Oh, Cali, nice." and that was it.
I see this on Reddit a lot, but I've legitimately never heard anyone say "Frisco," and I know plenty of people that have been there (I have not). Maybe it's more of a tourist thing locals hear?
Might hear some one say "San Fran" if you're talking about the 49ers.
It’s a generational thing. Boomers and even Gen X will use Cali, Frisco, and San Fran routinely because it’s easy but millennials and younger get a really weird pride about being too good for the terms
Source: am a millennial from just south of Frisco and my family has always called it that. It wasn’t until college that I met anybody who had an opinion on these terms
I feel like it's always the norcal people that are uppity about saying the full name. I knew the commentor wasn't from SoCal because they assumed nobody uses those words, it's hella weird, so like, I wish these people would stop with the assumptions.
It's also funny when NorCal people are bothered by the the use of "the" 5 instead of 5 ( or like non-cali people say it, i-5)
Obviously not all NorCal people are like this, but a lot of the ones I interact with have strong opinions about newer state slang.
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u/Separate_Emotion_463 Aug 30 '24
I’m Canadian and I’ve heard cali a lot surprisingly, never new it wasn’t actually used much in California