Does your city or town have a nickname?

[RagingInMiami]

For example, Miami is "the magic city".

NY is "the big apple."

LA is "the city of angels."

What's yours?

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. Shit Town?

:evilgrin:

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. Mistake on the Lake

Due to the incorrect spelling of "Cleaveland"

[RaleighNCDem]

3. City of Oaks

[two gun sid]

4. "Birthplace of the Republican Party"

I kid you not.

[mark414]

42. aww i know where you live

tough luck, i'm down in milwaukee

[two gun sid]

44. Nope. Your wrong.

There is a town in Michigan that claims they are the real birthplace. Here's a link:

http://www.jacksonmich.com/markers/mark1.htm

If it makes you feel better you guys in Wisconsin can have the honor. Matter of fact you can take all our repugs too.

[mark414]

46. interesting

i think there's some town in new hampshire that claims that for themselves as well...in any case, i was referring to ripon, wisconsin.

[Dave Reynolds]

84. I'm just south of town off S. Jackson Rd.

I get a chuckle about the Republican thing...

[ronnykmarshall]

5. WeHo

short for West Hollywood.

[Dhalgren]

6. Hey, Birmingham is called "The Magic City" - oh well.

Huntsville is called "The Rocket City".

[DinahMoeHum]

7. "Queen City of the Sound" - New Rochelle, NY

n/t

[FeelinGarfunkelly]

8. Queen City of the Ozarks -- Springfield MO

how do i love thee.. except for all the damn repukes

[steve2470]

9. City Beautiful = Orlando nt

[RagingInMiami]

29. That's what they call Coral Gables as well

[u4ic]

10. Edmonchuk

due to the large Ukrainian (ancestry) population. It's also called The City of Champions because way back when it won a number of Stanley and Grey Cups (CFL).

I prefer to call it Deadmonton.

[ironflange]

52. Edmonton a. k. a. Yukon

Because there's a Uke on every corner. :evilgrin:

Greetings from Calgary!

[u4ic]

56. LOL! I hadn't heard that one before!

How's it going in Cowtown, from the Uke on this corner?!

:hi:

[ironflange]

63. Nice warm sunny day

I should go outside and play. BTW, I'm Ukrainian too, 100%, Mom from Vegreville, Dad from north of Holden.

[u4ic]

72. Aah, the Big Egg!

both my parents are from small town Sask.

Ukrainian was their first language; I can't speak it unless my mucous count is up.

All the windows have been open for the past few days here. Winters are hell, but the joy that spring brings...no drug can match it!

[ironflange]

109. This one!

[TankLV]

104. Me too - from Buffalo by way of Kenmore.

Black Rock & Riverside sections.

Didn't know there were so many of us (more than one!).

[underpants]

11. Debbie

"The River City"

Richmond

[JimmyJazz]

12. Mushroom Capital of the World - no shit!

:silly:

[WhirlyGirl]

23. But can you HAVE mushrooms w/ no ****?

[GOPisEvil]

40. I've been through there. There's shit.

Trust me.

[Kire]

74. Chester County, PA?

http://www.brandywinevalley.com/pyvabtus.htm

I did an internship at the Chester County Historical Society.

[JimmyJazz]

75. Yessir - Right outside of Longwood Gardens.

:hi:

[Kire]

77. I was living off campus at West Chester University when I joined DU.

just last April, I think it was

too bad we never got to hang out, my friend Bill and I just love the Clash

I graduated in May, and now I live in Northern New Jersey.

Is the DFA group still doing well over there?

Edit: I visited Longwood Gardens in the dead of winter last year. It was a pretty nice day, but nothing was blooming.

[TankLV]

105. I've always wanted to visit there.

I've seen many beautiful pics of the place.

[Cadence]

13. Fort Fun.

:shrug: Don't blame me.. I didn't pick it.

[Dave Reynolds]

85. That's what I heard

Ft. Collins, CO called when I lived there many many years ago..

[Cadence]

101. Heh- heh...

You're in Cement City? Is that its nickname?

[Dave Reynolds]

111. No, unfortunately

that is it's real name.

[ohiosmith]

14. Sin City

[On the Road]

26. If It Were Cincinnati,

it should be "the double sin city."

[Jokerman]

15. "The World Capitol of Auto Racing"

Speedway Indiana.

That apparently doesn't stop them from giving me speeding tickets.

[yvr girl]

16. A few unofficial ones

Hongcouver (coined by 60 minutes)
Lotusland
Left Coast

[Moms Baby Democrat]

17. Home Of Buck Owens

:puke:

[ronnykmarshall]

24. My home town!

and you're a Stevie Nicks fan!!

:loveya:

[Moms Baby Democrat]

31. Are you serious??? Not joking???? n/t

[ronnykmarshall]

37. Yup. West Hight class of 1979.

Born at Memorial Hospital.

I live there until 1986 and then moved to San Francisco.

[Moms Baby Democrat]

55. Weird.....

Nice to know you got to escape though, Lucky you!

This place is mini-hell

[ronnykmarshall]

59. How long have you lived there?

I like to go and visit my mom and family. Plus some of the best mexican food!!!

[Moms Baby Democrat]

79. My Whole Life *sighs*

But hell yeah on the mexican food, we have so many good places here to eat. That's about all I can think of that is nice to say about Bako though....it has gotten better though in some ways...sort of...

[ronnykmarshall]

80. Never give up gettin' out!

I didn't.

[Moms Baby Democrat]

82. Oh I won't trust me...I'll have my day! n/t

[sniffa]

18. kwingzeeee

aLthough my hometown was better:

the peopLe's repubLik of cambridge. :P

[MrScorpio]

19. My current home is Newport News

Also know as Bad News

[maveric]

35. But they build mighty sea-going vessels there.

[CottonBear]

20. "The Classic City"

Athens, GA

[mojavekid]

21. "Thousand Tokes"

...ever heard of it?

[flamingyouth]

22. The Emerald City, officially

Also less offically The Jet City

[WhirlyGirl]

25. "Cowtown"

AKA "The Polyester Pantsuit Capital of the World."

[SarahB]

"Silk City"

There used to be large silk mills here in the 19th- early 20th Century.

[Aiptasia]

27. The Redneck Riviera... or... The Grand Strand.. Pick one..

I prefer the former than the latter.

[RagingInMiami]

28. You must live in the Florida panhandle

I never heard of the grand strand

[intheflow]

30. Denver is th Mile High City.

Which sort of diminishes the elitism of belonging to the Mile High Club, when you can join on terra firma. ;)

[Huckebein the Raven]

32. Bluff City

that's the nickname for Memphis

[maveric]

33. "America's FinestCity". Can you guess which city?

[ronnykmarshall]

38. San Diego

[tjwash]

102. I live there.

:hi:

[Name removed]

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[ThreeCatNight]

36. Derby City....

Falls City
Slugger Town

[mark414]

39. Brew City

Killwaukee...Illwaukee...

The other city on the lake

:shrug:

[achtung_circus]

41. Toronto

The Centre of the Universe,
used derisively by people from elsewhere

Hogtown

Muddy York,
archaic, from the 1800's, but still used derisively.

T.O.

Tranna,
allegedly the pronounciation the locals use. Personally, I find outsiders use in more than natives.

[GOPisEvil]

43. Live Music Capital of the World - Austin, TX

:hi:

[SOteric]

45. Technically, "The City of Angels" isn't a nickname. It's a translation.

La Ciudad de Los Angles is the city's full name, and that translates from Spanish as the city of the Angels.

[RagingInMiami]

67. Now that we're being technical, the city's full name is

either El Pueblo de la Reina de Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles
or El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles.
Historians are conflicted about this.

[luvLLB]

47. I think it was described in a book about Janice Joplin as

the armpit of america..I have to say I totally agree with the description

[HamstersFromHell]

48. Music City or Athens of the South

Take your pick.

Nashville, in case you've been living under a rock all your life.

[bahrbearian]

49. Scratch-n-claw

[Rowdyboy]

50. "City of Lights, Camera, Action!" because they filmed....

"O Brother, Where Art Thou?", "A Time to Kill", "My Dog Skip", "The Ponder Heart" and a couple of other movies in this small town.

[China_cat]

51. The Holy City

no kidding.

[ironflange]

53. Stampede City

Cowtown

Heart of the New West - a recent invention, not used much

[CanuckAmok]

54. Victoria: "For the Newly Wed and the Nearly Dead"

Because it's a honeymoon destination, and Canada's largest concentration of retirees per capita.

[deadparrot]

57. The Gateway City, or "Gateway to the West" nt

[Locut0s]

58. Sushi capital of Canada?

Seriously we do have a hell of a lot of sushi bars here. But then again we are an extremely multicultural city so we have a hell of a lot of everything. Got'a love Vancouver!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver

[wideopen]

60. BFE

although it's only 30 min. from the 16th largest city in the country.

[barackmyworld]

61. The Windy City

for the politicians hardy har har

[CO Liberal]

62. Pueblo, Colorado Has Three Nicknames

"Steel City" and The Pittsburgh of the West" because of its steel mill.

"Home of Heroes" because four men who were born here won the Congressional Medal of Honor. There are statures of these men in front of the Pueblo Convention Center.


Source: http://www.homeofheroes.com/

[TyeDye75]

64. Tellins....

Our town is called St Helens... but the local pronunciation sounds more like Sin Tellins...so people call it Tellins.

[Bertha Venation]

65. Surf City

I'm a native of Huntington Beach, CA, "Surf City, USA."

I liked it better when only surfers knew that monicker.

[d_b]

66. City of Lights.

Anchorage, Alaska.

[Sgent]

68. Used to live in the

Crescent City aka the Bigh Easy aka New Orleans.

[Aristus]

69. Tacoma, WA is often called the "City of Destiny".

But usually only by members of the city council, and a few optimistic tourists.

I live in Puyallup, which as far as I know, doesn't have an "official" nickname.

[Stop_the_War]

70. Jacksonville, FL is "The River City"

[micrometer_50]

71. Tucson - - Old Pueblo

Also TooStoned

[gollygee]

73. Celery City

Does celery really need its own city? And people don't really grow celery around here anymore anyway.

[LadyLeo]

76. Hooterville

It is actually Hendersonville, but everyone calls it Hooterville

[Maine-ah]

78. "lobster capitol of the world"

[welshTerrier2]

81. Clocktown - the electric clock was invented here ...

Ashland, Massachusetts ...

[maveric]

86. Us nasty boys from Lawrence called your town "Assland".

We were just jealous because we lived in the "Asshole of America".

[Dave Reynolds]

83. The town in my mailing address

is Cement City.

I think that's punishment enough.

[bigwillq]

87. "Copper City"

It's a blue-collar industrial town.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

88. Key Largo - "A little drinking town with a fishing problem."

[yellowdogintexas]

89. CowTown!!!!! good ole Foat Wuth, where the West begins.

oh yeah the other name: Better than Dallas

and the other other one: Not Dallas, Fort Worth

[Left Is Write]

90. City Of Trees.

[Art_from_Ark]

91. At one time, it was "Second Home of Will Rogers"

Then it was "BB-Gun Capital of the US"

Then it was "Chicken-Processing Capital of NW Arkansas"

Unofficially, "Home of the First Wal-Mart"

[Bok_Tukalo]

92. Depends

Dallas - The Big D

Ft Worth - Cowtown

Whole area - The Metroplex

[RagingInMiami]

107. metroplex?

sounds like a fucking movie theater

[AFSCME girl]

93. Boattown, USA - Harrison Twp., MI

:hi:

[baldguy]

94. Queen City of the Great Lakes

Nickel City

And if out local politicos fuck around anymore: Broke.

[Telly Savalas]

95. Toronto is called "Hogtown" and "The Centre of the Universe"

[Tektonik]

96. Filmed porn capital of the world

:shrug:

[maveric]

97. San Diego?

San Fernando Valley, perhaps.

[Tektonik]

99. I'm going to college in La Jolla, but my parents live in Chatsworth

:9

[Tikki]

98. Most boring town In So Cal for singles age 19~40 years old....eom

[Reverend_Smitty]

100. Trenton makes...the world takes...

unfortunately ever since the factories closed up, not many people are taking much these days

See it's on our bridge

[TankLV]

103. Sin City - VEGAS BABY, YEAH! - my present hometown.

Nickle City, Queen City, City of Good Neighbors - my birth place Buffalo, NY - or as many residents & my family still pronounce it - "buff-lo" (the a got lost!)

OZ or Emerald City - Honolulu - my second hometown (lots of shining diamonds in the middle of the ocean - one of the best nighttime light shows ever)

Hooterville - Henderson, Nevada - southern border of Vegas where I "actually" live.

[Tektonik]

110. Is it called hooterville because of all the suburbanites with boob jobs?

:P

[Allenberg]

106. Steel City, PA

Also sometimes known as City of Bridges.

[Paul Hood]

108. The Sweetest Place on Earth. eom

[ChoralScholar]

112. Russellville, AR

is 'Rooster-poot'.. honest to God...

Lately I've been also hearing Russ-Vegas fromt the University crowd...

[Fenris]

113. "A Drinking Town With A College Problem"

[Kathy in Cambridge]

114. The People's Republic of Cambridge

[elshiva]

115. Baltimore is Mob Town and Charm City

[aQuArius]

116. Cow Town