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No one in San Francisco calls it "San Fran" - it's "the City"
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No one in San Francisco calls it "San Fran" - it's "the City"
A minority do: https://sf.curbed.com/2018/1/26/16936872/san-fran-frisco-sur...
(And I get that there was a joke by the GP).
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#13Anybody here ever been to Slab City? I'd love to get the HN perspective on it.
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#14Anybody here ever been to Slab City? I'd love to get the HN perspective on it.
Creepy/sad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYe8EW7g5QM
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#15Anybody here ever been to Slab City? I'd love to get the HN perspective on it.
I'm interested in going after reading about it, but also scared.
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No one in San Francisco calls it "San Fran" - it's "the City"
SF is more common, generally. “The city” is used when talking to other bay area residents where context implies which city is the city. If you travel to NYC and tell people you live in the city they won’t know you mean SF. Of course, you should just call it San Francisco.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Back_to_Cali_(LL_Cool_J_...
> They must live in San Fran
Probably in SoMa, San Fran, Cali.
Ugh.
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#18> The California Energy Commission estimates the sea [Salton Sea] might produce 600k metric tons of lithium carbonate per year. > The land under the lake is a patchwork of ownership spread across three primary entities: the federal government – mostly the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Land Management, the Imperial Irrigation District (IID), and the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians. Should be interest…
Eh, I bet we become cozy with North Korea instead[0].
[0]: https://thediplomat.com/2014/01/north-korea-may-have-two-thi...
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#19Anybody here ever been to Slab City? I'd love to get the HN perspective on it.
Yes, I lived near there and frequently stayed there. It was a pretty neat place. I met a lot of interesting people. I haven’t been back for almost a decade.
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I mean LL Cool L sang “I’m going back to Cali“ like 30 years ago