alt Hacker NewsWell, this is THE Bay Area, where we live in THE city, drive on THE 101, and eat in THE Chinatown.... wait...
Funny enough, though, it wasn't until I moved here 15+ years ago that it struck me how odd it is to call it "the Bay Area" and expect people to know what that means. Nonetheless, sportscasters do it. Musicians do it. All other bay areas are just areas around bays...
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slater • yesterday at 2:10 AM
> drive on THE 101
excuuuuuuse you? It's "drive on 101" in NorCal :P
stevage • yesterday at 7:53 AM
like "the tristate"
jes5199 • yesterday at 1:30 PM
ride the BART
Eddie Izzard was joking in 1998 about the "The" and the prohibited names for The City (https://youtu.be/QRB_GhLXCds?si=R4kYkodzvYDxe33H&t=276), so it's probably been like this for many decades thence!