San Antonio: The affluent enclaves of Alamo Heights and Terrell Hills are usually referred to as the '08s (after their zip code, 78208).

My uncle's family lived in Alamo Heights -people in this area are referred to as the 09'ers :)

Austin-The Live Music Capital of the World
also known as the hill country in Texas

Birmingham---

Used to be known as The Magic City because of its massive growth in the late 1800's due to the steel industry

Also now known as "the 'Ham" or Bham


The area near Homewood and south of that is known as the Over The Mountain Area...

Jonesboro, AR: I call it the capital of the freakin bible belt.

lol..my dad felt the same way when we were stationed in Arkansas..we lived at a tiny place call Blytheville near Gosnell

Orlando is huge so that it divided up into several parts depending on where you live in the city. The part of the city I live in is known as Waterford Lakes. Some other Orlando communities are known as Stoneybrook, Avalon Park, East Orlando, UCF Area, Dr. Phillips, Hunter's Creek, Metro West, Thornton Park, Downtown Area, College Park, Lake Buena Vista, Bay Hill, Andover, etc.

Other trendy, contrived acronyms:

TriBeCa - "Triangle Below Canal Street" in Lower Manhattan. The original and best, as our own PhiPsiRuss will attest. :)

SoMa - "South of Market Street" in San Francisco.

SoBe - "South Beach" in Miami.

SoHo South of Houston Street
NoHo North of Houston Street
NoLita North of Little Italy

While it grates me, The Metro, Kansas City!:( AGD_Alum and I are catty wampus from each other!:)

I am on the Kansas Side, Kansas City, Ks. We are the Hot spot but still the step child!:mad:

Ah Well, figure in an 8 county area, The Metro is about as good as it gets!:rolleyes: :confused:

My hometown corner in southeastern Alabama (near Dothan) has a couple of names...

The Wiregrass Area (not really sure why it's called that)
The Tri-States Area (so close to where Alabama/Florida/Georgia borders together)

Others that I've heard from particular ppl:
"LA"= Lower Alabama
"UCLA"= Ugliest Corner of Lower Alabama (LOL)

SoHo was the first, but my favorite of these types of names is for the northern part of Brooklyn's Fulton Ferry area: DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.)

Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill are called the Triangle.

Raleigh is often called the City of Oaks

I waited a day or two for you to post and you didn't, so I had to! Where the heck have you been? LOL

I had heard Taylortucky and Fantasy Island before, but not the others.. very funny! I am the The Woo. I like that!

Dee

I live in the "sunset" district of San Francisco. So named because of its proximity to the ocean, which is where the sun sets here.

Sacramento
Sac
SacTown
1/3 of the Tri-Valley
Sack o Tomatoes (I don't remember where I heard that...)
Capitol

yep. :cool:

I live in The Bay Area, more specifically Silicon Valley. I call my suburban city "the MP" just for kicks (because it’s Menlo Park). I don’t know anyone else who calls it that. Maybe it will catch on ;-)

Nicknames for places I live near: EPA, RWC, "the cats" (for los gatos). San Francisco is called “the city” or SF, and never ever does anyone call it San Fran.

Neighborhoods in SF: SoMa, Mission, Castro, North Beach, Marina, Richmond, Sunset, Presido, Russian Hill, Noe Valley... I don't know them all honestly.

Stanford has a lot of nicknames for places: MemChu (Memorial Church), MemAud (Memorial Auditorium), TresEx (Tresidder Express, a store), FloMo (Florence Moore Hall), FroSoCo (The Freshman Sophomore College)… the list is too long to recall, really.

ETA: Milwaukee is just Milwaukee. Or parhaps Mil-wauke, Algonquin for "the good land".

Menlo Park has alot of little areas to it as well. The Willows, Allied Arts, Sharon Heights,Suburban Park etc. Ahh.. I miss it. (kind of) I don't go down there often enough.

Yeah, no one calls San Antonio 'San Antone' except Western Singers from the 1950's, and John Wayne.

Ha, up on my hill we call it the Inner Sunset, or Golden Gate Heights. I have always liked "The Avenues", but people that don't know the difference between the Sunset and the Richmond can get confused. One of the best theme parties I ever attended was when everyone dressed up as different neighborhoods.

I want to SLAP people that refer to my home city as Frisco, or my home state as Cali, unless they are quoting an LL Cool J song.

The area where I attend school is called the Palouse. There are rolling hills, not a lot of trees, and most of the wheat grown in the U.S. is produced there, as well as lentils and peas. There is amazing 19th century architecture, and some of the greek chapter houses are on the National Register of Historic Places. Lewis and Clark spent time in the area as well.

When you come down, PM me!
I live in West Menlo- to help all the stalkers on GC.

Hi,

I live in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia and it is known as the Mainline. (Places like Villanova, Bryn Mawr, Ardmore, Haverford are all in this region).

As for Philly, I've heard it called Filth-adelphia.

Also, some parts of PA are pretty rural, so sometimes the state can be referenced as Pennsyl-tucky, but I haven't heard that too often.

Haha =p a Breezer checkin in...
Yep, "LA" = Lower Alabama for the Panhandle of FL!
Yea my hometown Gulf Breeze, FL is about like 45 min from AL in the northwest corner of FL.
"GB" - Gossip Breeze (because we are such a small beach town, EVERYONE knows EVERYONE's biz)
"Dead Lands" - b/c a lot of pple in my town are retired lol
"The REAL O.C." - hahaha, this is what the newer kids at Gulf Breeze High call us now...plus our high school is known as "THE high school where the students' parking lot looks better than the teachers' parking lot" b/c like 75% of the student's parking lot is filled with BMWs... (and no I didn't drive a BMW, I was one of those poor kids driving a "cheap" Corolla lol)
"Lawyer Land" - b/c like 1/2 of the Breezers I went to HS with are from lawyer families, so it's this constant, "u touch a single hair of mine, & MY dad's law firm will UP ur dad's law firm...etc" it's the most ridiculous thing ever...that is prolly the reason why, during all my years in HS, I only saw ONE fight lol...& it was my jr yr & it was between two freshmen girls pullin each other's hair out...not exactly a fight... but that was the closest thing to it.
"The World's Whitest Beaches" - ummm that phrase is on the obnoxiously HUGE sign heading over the beach (and I do agree that our beaches are white, like blinding white too when it's sunny & bright)...FL's Gulf Coast (where my town is on facing the Gulf of Mexico) is the supposedly the whitest b/c our "sand" isn't sand but it's actually coral broken down over like a bizillion years or so.. ohh and our water is totally this amazing sparkling clear emeraldish color
"The International Center of UFO Sightings" - believe me, in all my 18 yrs living in GB, I have NEVER seen a UFO...but back in the 1980's, there were reported UFO sightings/occurances in my town and it was documented and seen MORE than any other place on Earth...

Of course you've heard HOT-lanta.
'Inside the perimeter' of Atlanta is the area inside I-285 which makes a circle around greater Atlanta, is pretty much the downtown Atlanta (including Buckhead Area, the 'Beverly Hills of Atlanta').

bay area, cali - the yay
sacramento - sac town

Currently in the Upper Kanawha Valley. My dad said when he came here, it was called "Pitgomery."

Back home, I'm either from the "River Cities" (Ironton, OH, Ashland, KY, and Huntington, WV) also known as the Tri-State.

El Paso:

Sun City

and El Chuco. So named because of all the peopl from Los Angeles that came down. Back in the days of the zoot suits, many people (mostly Mexicans) were having to leave Los Angeles for some reason or another, so they came down here to El Paso. These zoot suiters were calledPachucos and so when men were either getting ready to leave, or trying to figure out where to go, they would say Vamos pa el chuco and so that is how El Paso got the nickname, El Chuco.

My area is called "The Right Side of the Tracks."

-Rudey
--And no matter what state I'm in, that's what they call it

I live in what they call "the bay area" or what they also call "the peninsula" but whatever really. I actually live outside the city in a little place called Pacifica, CA.

Like someone already said, Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill are called The Triangle. I've often heard of North Carolina called
North Cackilacky-although for the life of me I can't imagine what idiot came up with that one. Or what the hell it means. Or if I'm even spelling it right!! :rolleyes:

I also heard that about South Carolina when I was in Tennessee a bunch in 03.

Both my mother and grandmother were raised in San Antonio and they taught me NEVER to say "San Antone."
(I just now saw this entry LOL)

Actually, it's the 'Arklatex', for Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. While the far southeastern corner of Oklahoma is nearby, it's not counted in the acronym.

Some wags in Dallas call the cities of Highland Park and University Park "the Bubble", because of its enclave of affluence surrounded by the city of Dallas. Officially, they prefer the 'Park Cities'.

I've only hear Wichita referred to as "The Air Capital". Occasionally I hear it referred to as "Dub-city".

:)

I'm from not far from the AL/MS line, so everytime there's a weather update on the radio, it's for the "Twin States" since everything coming through Mississippi is going to hit us too.

I'm from Philadelphia, affectionately known as Philly or Filthadelphia. Some neighborhoods are Manayunk, Roxborough, Center City, Olde City, Society Hill, Washington Square, Rittenhouse Square, University City (aka Uni City).

I thought it was called Illadelphi Pennsy?

-Rudey

Tidewater or (as of more recent) Hampton Roads:

Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton -->all in Virginia