[Joe 6-pack]

"Actually, referring to a freeway as "the 101" instead of just "101" is specifically a southern California thing. Even SF Bay Area people don't say that. I've lived in Northern CA almost all my life, and that's one of the ways I can tell if someone I meet is originally from down south."

Interesting....I've met people in both Oregon and Washington who also used, "the #" and assumed it was a left coast thing...unbeknownst to me they may have been transplants.

[HungarianGypsy]

I live in Arizona and we call the 101 “the 101”.

[fr_freak]

Interesting....I've met people in both Oregon and Washington who also used, "the #" and assumed it was a left coast thing...unbeknownst to me they may have been transplants.

Well, I couldn't absolutely swear that people in Washington and Oregon don't ever do that, although I've spent a fair amount of time there and never heard it. I can only swear that Northern Californians don't do it. With all of the people fleeing LA, though, who knows, maybe it's spreading.