{"id":335,"date":"2004-02-28T02:17:52","date_gmt":"2004-02-28T09:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=335"},"modified":"2004-02-28T02:17:52","modified_gmt":"2004-02-28T09:17:52","slug":"sofo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2004\/02\/sofo\/","title":{"rendered":"SoFo"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York has SoHo, NoHo, Nolita, TriBeCa and Dumbo, so why can’t Stockholm? Last year, somebody had that very thought, opened a caf\u00e9 in trendy S\u00f6dermalm (well, I live there) So<\/em>uth of Fo<\/em>lkungagatan, called it SoFo, rallied local shops to the cause, and now SoFo is a meme on the verge of prime timeStockholm fashion blogger Anna has covered SoFo<\/a> from the start.
 
The caf\u00e9 owner, BTW, does not take kindly to suggesting SoFo works best as an ironic<\/em> neologism.<\/span>.<\/p>\n

But not the only meme. Every SoFo implies a NoFo, which, selfevidently, is the area No<\/em>rth of Fo<\/em>lkungagatan. But Folkungagatan is long, so we call the area further along MoFo<\/a>, Mo<\/em>re of Fo<\/em>lkungagatan.<\/p>\n

To the South of SoFo (SoSo? Nah), we get to the area No<\/em>rth of Lo<\/em>wer Go<\/em>tlandsgatan, NoLoGo. Still further south there is a part of the city whose main landmarks are the B<\/em>ridges o<\/em>ff Ring<\/em>v\u00e4gen, or BoRing. I live between BoRing and NoLoGo.<\/p>\n

To the West of SoFo, we find LoBoToMe, or Lo<\/em>wer Bo<\/em>ndegatan To<\/em> Me<\/em>dborgarplatsen. Even further west lies the area So<\/em>uth of Fat<\/em>bursgatan, SoFat, and then as we head North, we approach Horn<\/em>sgatan from the So<\/em>uth, an area affectionately known by the locals as SoHorny.<\/p>\n

Click on image to magnify.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Other parts of Stockholm, not on this map, have also acquired sought-after acronyms. North Vasastan is now called NoVa, while South Vasastan is SoVa. (Thanks to Anna and Magnus for pointing some of these out to me. If you come across others, do let me know.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York has SoHo, NoHo, Nolita, TriBeCa and Dumbo, so why can’t Stockholm? Last year, somebody had that very thought, opened a caf\u00e9 in trendy S\u00f6dermalm (well, I live there) South of Folkungagatan, called it SoFo, rallied local shops to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-sweden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7eNhC-sofo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}