Interestingly we do actually refer to the city of Portland by ... • Aaron Parecki

Chloe Condon https://twitter.com/ChloeCondon • Dec 15
SFO is the airport code, not the city. If you tell me you're visiting SFO, I assume you're just having a layover.

Interestingly we do actually refer to the city of Portland by our airport code PDX but I realize we are an exception here 🤷‍♂️

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Wed, Dec 15, 2021 5:20am -08:00

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- William Hyde twitter.com/WilliHyde
  
  PDX just sounds cool. I'm glad we've adopted it as a nickname for the city.
  
  Thu, Dec 16, 2021 3:22am +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Kevin Cantú twitter.com/killerswan
  
  at office in South San Francisco we didn’t hesitate to base infrastructure naming on airport codes, though! 😇 anyways I came here to mention Toronto youtube.com/watch?v=LdpMpf…
  
  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 8:25pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- SpookyTeapot 🎃🌁💀 twitter.com/SpookyTeapot13
  
  I lived in Atlanta for many years and plenty of people, including lifelong locals, will call it ATL.
  
  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 6:18pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- matty stratton, charismatic grifter twitter.com/mattstratton
  
  I’ll also refer to Chloe here, but when I lived there, most folks used “SF” to refer to the city but def not SFO
  
  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 1:54pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  Oh yea I think I've heard that about ATL before, but didn't know about ABQ! I think I've said "SF" a grand total of like 4 times, and I 100% agree that if someone said "SFO" I would in no way assume they mean the city
  
  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 1:48pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- matty stratton, charismatic grifter twitter.com/mattstratton
  
  There definitely are others - I think ABQ and ATL come to mind where I’ve seen locals refer to the area/city by that same code. Chloe’s right about SFO though :)
  
  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 1:29pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)

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