You could call it Quito

[henry_flower]

A note for travelers:

"As a native born San Franciscan and avid reader of Herb Caen when he was alive, any true hipster would know that you don't call it "Frisco." People who do this are crude and unrefined and not really San Franciscans."

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

I heard it from a couple of pretty old guys.
But well, of course, the term is obsolete. The city.

[p35]

цікаво
щось таке зустрічалося десь в книгах в дитинстві
мабуть у Жуль Верна було))

[ukurainajin]

Is there any kind of local humor I don't understand?
"Фріско" мені зустрічалося у якихось книжках минулого століття. Детективи, чи що

[henry_flower]

"It was two years ago [1995] at UC Berkeley when police officers approached 2 men sleeping under a tree and asked them for identification.

"We're from Frisco," the men said.

A moment later, they we're in handcuffs.

No, it's not illegal to say "Frisco," though some would like it to be. But the two men were wanted fugitives from Utah and they gave themselves away because the officers knew the odds of a San Franciscan saying "I'm from Frisco" are about as slim as surviving a jump off the Golden Gate Bridge."

http://web.archive.org/web/19971123191158/http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/pubs/gater/fall97/sept11/Frisco.html

[ukurainajin]

:-)