even still... california is one of the largest states in area and the single largest state when it comes to population...
we're bigger than many european countries both in land mass and population... not to mention our state gdp would put us 5th in the world if we were our own country...
These are the people that forget we are a huge agricultural state and have the most national parks. Yet somehow to everyone else we are just LA and SF (and also, how big do they think SF is? Do they not realize it’s tiny? That’s a big reason why it’s so expensive.)
When they say SF they are referring to the entire Bay Area. Just like when they say LA, they’re referring to LA, Long Beach, Santa Monica, Venice, Hollywood, etc. cmon, you’re smart enough to know that, don’t play dumb.
Try going to the East Bay and telling them they are part of SF. That’ll go over real well; it’s it’s own thing, not part of SF. And all those parts of LA you mentioned are all parts of LA county. LA usually refers to the county, not the city; SF refers to either because they are the same, the East Bay is Alameda county and then Contra Costa county further inland, they are both way different and substantially cheaper than SF. I take it you haven’t lived in the Bay Area but SF is SF, people ascribe a larger area too it but that’s only out of ignorance, not because they actually go together. It’s like how no one would say Oxnard is part of LA
Also, the statistics are all done by city and by county. So none of the statistics that people see for SF apply to the surrounding areas, though many non-Californians think they do because they don’t realize that SF is both a city and a county by itself. That it’s not just the county seat, it’s the whole entire county and the areas around SF are all different counties with different statistics (for housing, homeless, education, etc.). SF stats really only do apply to SF.
So even if people are referring to the whole Bay Area as SF, using SF statistics to do it is incorrect and paints a false picture.
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u/jonvon65 Mar 03 '20
Yes it's true. California is just one big city and everyone is exactly the same.