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.