Didn't you forget Crapitol Hill and the Mall?

Michigan areas:

We have "The U P" (upper peninsula) and people from there are Yoopers.

We have "Southern Lower Michigan" which always cracks me up, because you never hear them talk about Southern Upper Michigan. The people from the UP call the people in Lower Michigan "Fudgies" (because we go to Mackinac for fudge)

The three main counties around Detroit : Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb are the "Tri-County area"

Within the Tri-Country area, we have The East Side (northeastern suburbs of Detroit), Downtown (the center of Detroit), The West Side (west/northwest suburbs of Detroit), and Downriver (south of Detroit.. Down the River from Detroit). Within the city of limits of Detroit, you also have Southwest Detroit, Greek Town, Mexican Town and the New Center Area.
We also have Ann Arbor which is usually A Squared.

The rest is "Up North", which can mean anything north of the Tri County area.. or "Outstate" which is anything west or north of the Tri County area.

Dee

SoCal also includes Orange Country--the TV calls it the OC--most folks go by the name of the city, like Newport Beach and Huntington Beach... And SoCal also includes San Diego and all of its counties.

In San Diego, there's Golden Triangle near La Jolla. Mission Beach and Pacific Beach or P.B. are not part of the triangle. The triangle is demarcated by the freeways: I-5 corridor, the 52 and I-15. Beyond the 52, it becomes North County and Northest County.

Then there's Mission Valley where the Qualcomm Stadium is. The downtown is usually called the Gaslamp Quarter, but that's where all the tourists go. South of I-8 up until you get to San Diego State University, is call The Rim.

The more south you get before Imperial Beach--not to be confused with Imperial County in Descanso is--the names are refered to their cities... Then there is the East County that expands more north every day for some reason--like El Capitan and Rancho Santa Fe.

My parents reside in the Del Cerro-San Carlos area of San Diego very close to Cowles Mountains. I guess you tell your location based on the visibility of individual mountains in San Diego.

I use to live in Mission Valley.

Now I live on the Eastside of King County near Seattle in the Pac-North West...:rolleyes:

You forgot LOTUSLAND for Vancouver! Vancouver is also referred as the Lower Mainland...or at least the surrounding area is.


Toronto (my "other" hometown) is also known as "The Big Smoke", or referred to (by the jealous) as "The Center of the Universe".

Anyhow who refers to Toronto as "The 905" should be smacked upside the head, put in a bag and drowned. :rolleyes:

" The Region"

For some random reason, that name has started to annoy me in recent years, for it's extreme theme park-ness. "Chicagoland" sounds like a place where you'd play "Michael Jordan's 3 on 3 Shoot-Out" and go on "Al Capone's Wild Ride". Of course, you would need a city sticker prior to doing any of that, although you may reserve your spot in line with a lawn chair.

Our Niece goes to Northern Michigan and is a Yooper.

One thing funny about the Detroit is that Southfield (where I worked for a while) is actually immediately North of Detroit. (It's in the South end of Oakland County)

Sort of like that is the area of Denver called LoDo, for "lower downtown," which you would expect to be below downtown on the map -- or South. It's actually North.

Yet, Southfield is considered "The West Side" because it is west of Woodward...

Cincinnati = "Cincinnasty" and "Nasty Nati"

but Cincy isn't really nasty.. it's a very nice place w/ J.Crew replicas in little suberban homes. i love it lol :)

I call all of New York City The City and the Big Apple. The news always says the Tri-State Area about NY, NJ and CT. I have also heard the four boroughs of New York City excluding Manhattan referred to as the "outer boroughs" and "Bridge and Tunnel."

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