San Franciscan

Golden Gate local

A San Franciscan is a person from or living in San Francisco, California.

The term carries associations with the city's distinct culture—tech industry, progressive politics, and diverse neighborhoods: As a lifelong San Franciscan, she remembers the city before the tech boom.

Also used as an adjective: San Franciscan fog, San Franciscan values.

landmarks

Alcatraz

Former island penitentiary

culture

hippie

Sixties counterculture member

  • LGBTQSexual and gender minorities
  • jazzImprovisational American music genre
  • VictorianOf a prim era

sourdough · countercultural

neighborhoods

Chinatown

Asian immigrant neighborhood

  • CastroProminent Cuban surname
  • MarinaFeminine name, nautical origin
  • RichmondVirginia's seat of government

Sunset · Excelsior

terrain

hilly

Having many slopes

bay · Pacific · slopes · viewpoints · stairways · inclines · panoramic · terraced · elevation

resident

Californian

Native of a western state

gentrifier · startup · urbanite · rideshare · parklet

Categories
Opposites
California regional identity

San FranciscanAngeleno

Resident of California's largest city

American urban cultural identity

San FranciscanTexan

Southwest state resident

Houstonian · Midwesterner · Atlantan · Phoenician · Oklahoman

lifestyle and settlement type

San Franciscansuburbanite

Outskirts area resident

Family

San Francisco, Francis, Franciscan, frank, franc, franchise, enfranchise, enfranchisement, disenfranchise

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G