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Posted on 10-04-09 10:09:59 PM

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I live near Rocky Rd

And my work is near Home Rd. That would be weird,

"Where do you live?"
"Oh, I live at Home."
"Yeah, but where exactly do you live?"
"I told you I live at Home!"

Then you have all of the neighborhoods whose street names have to have a theme like "Village Park, Parkwick, and Hardy Parkway" in one, "Gold Leaf, Red Leaf, Summer Breeze, and Autumn" in another, and "Northbranch, Westbranch, Candlenut and Candleberry."

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Posted on 10-04-09 10:30:07 PM

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Uh, apparently a lot of the roads in my town are named after various famous people or places, like Francisco, Mozart, Troy, Sacramento, Pulaski, and the like.

However, I smile every time I pass by Keeler Av. I'm a Futurama fan.

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Posted on 10-04-09 10:35:23 PM

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Well, I live in Buffalo which I guess could be kinda weird, but there's also Hamburg, like Hamburger. As for streets? Not really. There's Werhle or however you spell it pronounced werly. Eggert road always reminded me a bit of eggs or yogurt.

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Posted on 10-04-09 11:18:07 PM

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There's a Homer Street near my dad's on the west coast of Florida. I want to steal that sign!

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Posted on 10-04-09 11:21:00 PM

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Posted on 10-04-09 11:22:16 PM

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There's a lot of streets in Hollywood (FL) that are named after Presidents. Mostly side streets down by the beach.

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Posted on 10-04-09 11:25:22 PM

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Metro Detroit has a lot named after obscure Presidents. Coolidge, Hoover, Hayes, Garfield, etc.

Seattle numbers a lot of its streets and it gets confusing in some areas. I remember passing 1st Ave. N., then 2 blocks later was 1st Ave. W.

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Posted on 10-04-09 11:37:55 PM

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Originally posted by Terra
Seattle numbers a lot of its streets and it gets confusing in some areas. I remember passing 1st Ave. N., then 2 blocks later was 1st Ave. W.

There are a couple places in the Bronx that are like that. For example, Mosholu Parkway is split into East and West by Jerome Avenue. Mosholu Parkway also has two service roads, Mosholu Parkway North and South.
So the service roads are named East/West Mosholu Parkway North/South.

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Posted on 10-04-09 11:42:13 PM

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The other street looks like "Smoketree". Two odd names.

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Posted on 10-04-09 11:46:20 PM (last edited by Terra at 10-04-09 08:49 PM)

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Originally posted by Supakitsune
So the service roads are named East/West Mosholu Parkway North/South.

Metro Detroit tends to fuck up west and east sections of a street. Many of the Mile Roads have a West section, then an East section, then another West section, then another East section, and I think Maple Rd. has an East West section way out in the 'burbs. Liek wtf?

So if you want like "512 W. 11 Mile Rd." it could be 2 different places, not far from each other

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Posted on 10-04-09 11:48:32 PM

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Posted on 10-05-09 02:17:12 AM

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I always thought Lave Avenue was pretty quirky.

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Posted on 10-05-09 02:24:04 AM

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There's a street near one of my old apartment buildings that used to be signed as "Lois Lane"

Too bad they changed it to the redundant-sounding "Lois Lane Dr"

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Posted on 10-05-09 02:29:33 AM

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I once stayed at a beach house on Assawoman Dr. I guess the only other thing I can think of is lol Lynchburg, VA...

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Posted on 10-05-09 06:22:30 AM

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Posted on 10-05-09 06:46:23 AM (last edited by Kyargu at 10-05-09 03:46 AM)

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Arkansas had the stupidest town names. Like "Bald Knob".
Also, there was a "Weiner" there, although that one's only really funny in a juvenile way.

Originally posted by Terra
- Mexico, NY. We camped near it, and my dad was like "We're in Mexico!"

There's actually a town called Mexico here in Missouri near where I live. To make things even more confusing, there's also a town called California nearby.

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Posted on 10-05-09 10:32:21 AM

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Posted on 10-05-09 10:48:29 AM (last edited by Bitmap at 10-05-09 07:49 AM)

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Back when I lived in Florida, there was always a nerd clice for every apartment complex. There was Vista Way (Where I lived), Windows Dr (Older people), and Macbrook way (For the people outside the US, mainly Brazilians).

Most of the people I worked with had this ongoing joke about the Operating systems battling it out for superiority. Of course Vista sucks, Windows Dr was the superior place to live (They had a lot better stuff than Vista, like up to date computers and a much better gym) and Macbrook had houses in the Godamn trees!

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Posted on 10-05-09 05:43:06 PM (last edited by devin at 10-05-09 02:43 PM)

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