Actually, our dog’s sister’s name is Cali - the family who adopted her is originally from California. We named ours Brady - a female border collie mix named after two quarterbacks.
I’ve only see that term on cc, which we know with certainty is dominate by those darn Yankees! . 
Yeah but they’ve been know to boo Santa during the holidays, so go figure. 
Academics call it Berkeley. Athletic boosters/fans call it Cal.
Third-generation. Mother was born in The City.
@shoot4moon
I grew up in Hanford. Miss the ice cream.
I also hate Cali.
Lived in CA since I was 5 outside of a 2 year stint elsewhere for grad school. Grew up in LA a few miles from UCLA and have lived in the Bay Area for 30+ years. Cringe at Cali and Frisco every single time. Agree: just don’t do it! Went to Cal as did dh although we met afterwards and Cal and Berkeley are used most often. UCB and University of California, Berkeley are fine too, the latter used in writing something formal. When abbreviating California, CA Or Calif. are used.
So glad to see Philly IS appropriate as D went to Penn and I referred to her city as Philly all the time. What got me was when people would ask why I sent my daughter across the country to go to a state school, confusing it with Penn State.
I have a picture of myself, age 17, shaking hands with Frank Rizzo at my father’s retirement party in 1973. I’d spent my high school years as a researcher for a family friend writing a book on policing (this one: https://www.amazon.com/City-Police-Jonathan-Rubinstein/dp/0374515557). Rizzo was mayor during some of the worst excesses of the Philadelphia police; he was notorious for his treatment of Vietnam war protesters, among others.
Wait, we didn’t yet say Philly is appropriate. We just called a temporary truce.
@lookingforward, oops! My bad! Although if the local team can go by that name… 
Eagles fans not only boo him, they’ve been known to throw snowballs at him.
From a long line of California natives on my mother’s side and I had never even heard the term ‘Cali’ until I saw it in some posts on CC. Maybe I need to broaden my acquaintance range, probably only really know California residents:). Please just don’t it…doesn’t sound right.
I do know that we use numbers to refer to our freeways and that is not common everywhere. In fact I saw a Wheel of Fortune puzzle. “Four-O-Five Freeway”. I thought to myself…does anyone outside of Orange County and LA even know what that is??
BTW… grew up in Corona Del Mar and had never used the term OC until the TV show. It isn’t natural to me. I don’t think we really ever said “I live in Orange County”. It wasn’t a geographic definition. You just referred to the specific town you lived in. If someone didn’t know where it was you just said “About an hour south of LA”
@collage1 @alwaysamom @lookingforward
aright, now the 30 year dormant philly in me is getting po-ed. So, I’mma settle it for yous.
Andrea Mitchell: “NBC is now no longer a television company—we are a digital company. I started in Philly with film and the beginnings of video; there were no cell phones. We used walkie-talkies to cover Reagan on the road."
Gene Demby (NPR): “But when she got home and turned on the TV, she saw that Philly was not going to oblige her.”
Jim Kenney: (Mayor) I’m a South Philly-born Irish Catholic 57-year-old former Mummer — I was in the Mummer’s Parade for 35 years — and I was not a Frank Rizzo fan.
I mean, a Philly architecht even calls Philadelphia Cricket Club, the oldest country club in the US “Philly cricket…” “At Philly Cricket, I took down trees that were superfluous but left other trees,” said Foster. (Philly architect Keith Foster) “I love trees and I love keeping and having trees. But what I don’t like are silver maples and white pines that were quickly planted to try to fill in space.”
I mean it’s not even a question. Philadelphians from all classes, ethnic backgrounds and geographical origins in the metro area say Philly. From K&A to Merion to the navy yard, you go to Philly, you’re gonna hear it. I swear on Frank Rizzo’s grave.
@CaliDad2020, why do you call yourself Cali…, have you been in CA? I agree with most CA residents, nobody I know in CA identifies him/herself as Cali… or even uses the term.
I can strut like a mummer, btw. And I love the memories of quirks this thread brings up. And the more than hint we’re feisty. And yeah, we can talk fast (and listen fast.) DH (from NJ) and I loved recalling the “jeet yet?” and “j’go?” and so many more.
But I say, Philadelphia.
And Pennsylvania, not “Pennsie.” (Another Jersoid aberration.)
And in the spirit of what binds us, I’ll admit I haven’t lived there in ages (a few years in NJ don’t count, lol.) Maybe…
But.
@cbreeze I know. I’m a trend-setter! And EstadoLibreySoberanodeBajaCaliforniaDad2020 seemed kinda long.
Just wait, Cali is gonna rise. Five years from now it will be the People Republic of Cali. Kamala Harris gonna change her name to Cali-ma Harris! The Cali State Warriors are going to be playing the Calimento Kings.
Just remember, you read it here first.
LOL! @CaliDad2020, I like the cut of your jib.
" “Four-O-Five Freeway”. I thought to myself…does anyone outside of Orange County and LA even know what that is??"
@coralbrook - you need to move to my neck of the woods. I take the 405 every day…
I am a WA resident, and I hate “Cali”. And while we are at this, when you come to WA, please, please, don’t say “state.”’
Hey - maybe it’s Cali-fornication’s fault. I blame Flea!
Californication - I hate that song. It is in the same “quick! change the station!” bucket as the infamous Sex and Candy or Meet Virginia…
@BunsenBurner it’s THE 405 thank you very much and yes San Diegans know it…it’s the San Diego fwy SoCal peeps put THE in front of fwys
And who doesn’t like the Chili Peppers?!?
Love 'em Peppers. Hate the song. The reference to 405 was from an earlier post. Yup. I have driven them all. You are welcome to come to drive THE 405 (I mean the one here). I live just off of it, so you are welcome to stop by for a pit stop and a glass of wine. 