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IS THIS YOUR "FRISCO"? ![]() HOUSING DIARY
The rents for apartments and hotels here are high! In these times, San Fran may have even surpassed New York City as the most expensive place to live in the USA. It's really nerve-wracking to try to find an apartment here, especially when you're short on both time and money. More... ![]() MUNI TALES Excepting the kind that run on cables, this is not the most car-friendly city in the world, which is either bad or good depending on how you feel about cars, and how often you like to drive. Fortunately, we have it made up for by having public transportation reaching just about everywhere. More... ![]() CHEAP EATS REVIEWS There's eateries in "Frisco" that'll accommodate all budgets--even none at all... More... ![]() LITERATURE: SF IN SF Lots of science fiction, speculative fiction and fantasy stories have been written that used the city of San Fran as a setting. Does this really surprise anyone? More... ![]() STREET HISTORY
Though it's only been around for a few centuries, making it a young city compared with others on Earth, San Francisco has a fascinating history - one which shows us that the "wild" element that the City is known for definitely pre-dated the 1960s. More... ![]() CITY SPIRITUALITY ![]() GETTING INVOLVED
When you have time for it. volunteer work can actually be pretty cool...and it can give back to you what you put into it. More... ![]() CITY SEXUALITY
Everyone knows San Francisco is highly populated by single men and women, and is known for the tendency for its people to be "sex positive"... More... ![]() |
Welcome to San Francisco and Frisco.com! You've probably heard one place or another that it's bad form to refer to the city of San Francisco by the name "Frisco". There are those who claim that "Frisco" was an accepted name for the City in the early days, but it was actually always controversial. Even Emperor Norton, the famous San Francisco kook of the 19th century, hated it, and there was even a ladies' group in the reconstruction period following the 1906 earthquake dedicated to expunging the name. Depending on who you hang out with, you may or may not have noticed that the nickname, like many other things "forbidden", is making a bit of a comeback. It could be that SMS and instant messaging, which require communications to be heavily abbreviated, may have something to do with this. There is also a tendency, in the rap and hip-hop culture, to abbreviate things. And the traditional abbreviations for San Francisco, while still not out of favor, can be problematic: "The City" is too vague, and "SF" means "Science Fiction", primarily. While the most frequently-used abbreviation is still "San Fran", don't be surprised if the old moniker starts popping up in convo...digital or otherwise.
One user of a question-and-answer site going by (assumed to be a Donna Summer fan, as s/he goes by the name "On The Radio Uh Oh") had this to say in response to another user querying about the propriety of calling San Francisco "Frisco":
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