Subdivision names- why are they so lame- why do they need?

[Wcross]

Harbor pointe, Berkshire, the govoners club ect......

Whats up with having some kind of sign with a lame name on it at these subdivisions? The snobbier sounding the better it seems to me. One near where I work, "the village at ...." it ain't no freaking village, its row after row of similar looking houses on 1/8 acre lots with no trees and a brand new SUV parked out front. You never see people (gasp) outdoors, no kids playing, no village feel at all.

[Guy Fawkes]

1. "F*cking bunch of big houses"

That's the subdivision I want to live in.

[candy]

4. Downtown Boston for me---hate subdivisions.

[Guy Fawkes]

6. Yeah, I'd much rather live in the city...

[Maddy McCall]

2. This could be fun. Why don't you edit your post and ask folks to...

list the names of subdivisions around them? I'd love to see what they are named. :D

[flamingyouth]

3. I grew up in Olympic Manor

Subtitled "Crappy tract homes inhabited by crabby Republicans who always vote 'no' on school levies."

One of my best friends lives in Brookshire. Most of them are just lame.

But nothing beats some of the street names near where Fenris grew up. There is actually a street there named Morningwood (I kid you not). :D

[Wcross]

24. Morningwood-LOL! n/t

[CottonBear]

5. Here in GA, subdivisions are typically named after what was destroyed

in the process of building them. For example:

Oak Grove (Former Oak-Hickory hardwood forest)

River Shoals (desecrated state waters and streambank buffers)

or the name is at odds with the place:

Hampton Court (middle class 1980s cookie cutter subdivision)

Twelve Oaks (There are six River Birches planted at the entrance.)

[Merope215]

8. All of the street names in my GA subdivision

are named after computer fonts. Really.

[CottonBear]

15. No kidding?

Like Palatino Way and Times Roman Court?

Bwahahahaha!

[Merope215]

19. No kidding!

No Times New Roman or Palatino, but there is a Garamond Place and all the rest. The funny thing is that it took me eight years to figure it out...which I guess makes me even stupider than whoever named the streets. :P

[AlCzervik]

7. I saw one in a realestate book for new hampshire called "Mortgage estates"

[candy]

13. Naaaaww ! You're kidding! LOL

[AlCzervik]

16. nope, my husnabd was in boston last week and he flew into

Machester and he got a real estate book while he was there, that is probably the worst name for sub-division i've seen.

[sweetladybug]

14. I live in Village Green Subdivision, but I do have 2 1/2 acres with home

so we don't have neighbors right on top of us

[mcscajun]

9. Could be worse...some developers name the streets after their family.

So you get "Joyce Court", "Annabelle Avenue", "Richard Place", etc.

"The village at..." is pretension to jack up the price, plain and simple.

[CottonBear]

18. There's a street in my area called "Lois Lane"!

I love it! It's actually a little country road.

I used to live on a country road called "Booger Hill Road." It was named after an old ghost story in the area.

[Merope215]

20. I saw an "Easy Street" in Roanoke once

Gotta love it.

[candy]

21. There's one near me--Jason,Irving,Harold,and Maude. I kid you not.

[DS1]

10. Agreed

Cozy Chestnut Court is around here

[YellowRubberDuckie]

11. I swear, my cousin lives on a road called Smokey Bend Ridge.

I'm like, :wtf: What happened to streets called Maple Drive, Elm Street, or Broadway? It's so pretentious. they want the people buying homes in their additions, on their streets to feel like they're buying into an upscale neighborhood. Ever notice that the old neighborhoods like, Highland Park in Dallas, don't have pretentious stupid names? You can spot a new subdivision from a mile off...and the people who live in them are not who they are looking for in the strictest sense. That's why they have home owners associations. :eyes:
Duckie

[CottonBear]

22. You can't repeat names or have similar names

according to local Planning Department, Post Office and 911 rules.
So, as an area grows rapidly, it becomes harder and harder to come up with creative new names. Cities that develop slowly have better names related to actual geographic features, people and historic events.

[KG]

12. the most amusing part is that in FL, they got the high falutin' names

on big brick marqee, and when you drive in, there's like 10 houses in a little cul-de-sac.

[WildClarySage]

17. My best friend growing up lived in Brookside

where the developer named all the streets after his two grandchildren, Jacob and Brook. Maggie lived on Meadowbrook, which was right off the main drive, Brookside Court. To get to Maggie's house, you took a right then a left onto Jacobbrook, then another left onto Jacob Corners then the first left onto Meadowbrook. It was revoltingly high priced, pretentious and today looks shabby and overwrought.

Back then, it was one of the more upscale neighborhoods... just goes to show ya...

[Xithras]

23. I live in "Creekside Manor".

The "creek" was a three foot wide seasonal stream flanked by a few oak trees that only flowed after it rained. To make it worse, they cut down the trees and BURIED the thing when the SAME developer built another adjoining subdivision next door the following year. That subdivisions name? Oak Creek Estates. I kid you not. :banghead: