Whats your area called?
 

In the media or advertising or by locals, most places have nicknames. Whats yours? HEres a few examples:

Central Texas /San Antonio- The Hill Country
Corpus Area - The Costal Bend
Amarillo Area - The Golden Spread or The High Plains
LA Area - The Southland
Dallas/Ft. Worth Area - The Metroplex

Kentucky/Indiana area - Kentuckiana
Kentucky/Tennessee area- Tuckasee

Charlotte area - Metrolina.

First Coast

Back in the day Toronto was known as Hogtown.

One of the nicknames now is - The T dot (shortened from the T dot O dot.

It's also been known as T.O

Those are all I can think of right now.

Heres another one:

Texarkana, TX - The Arklotex (combination of Arkansas, Oklahoma, &Texas)

Lubbock, TX area--The South Plains
Midland/Odessa, TX area--The Permian Basin

Vancouver - Back in the early 90's during the huge wave of immigration from Hong Kong, resisdents starting referring to Vancouver as Hongcouver (you don't hear this term much anymore as it is highly derogatory).

The more recent nickname for Vancouver is Vansterdam.

And a longstanding nickname - Hollywood North.

Miami, Florida (especially the southern portion) - "La República de Cuba en el Exilio" (The Republic of Cuba in Exile); "La Sagüecera (a Spanglish phonetic corruption of "Southwest", where many Latinos (not just Cubans) settled).

I call Denver Menver, but I haven't heard it from very many other people. This place is just crawling with dudes, seriously. If you're a young single woman, move here.

The "Metropolitan Area," or "Greater New York."

The best site on the region is http://rpa.org/

Ah, to be young again...

The six county Denver area is sometimes called the Denver Metroplex.

The I-25 corridor from Colorado Springs to Ft. Collins, (including the Denver Metroplex) is called The Front Range (of the Rockies).

It also seems to me that my friends (who live there) call Manhattan simply, "The City."

Well in Chicago I lived in the northwest suburbs. My town, Elk Grove Village, got called EGV, or EG, a lot.

Now I live in Brevard County, Florida, which is part of Central Florida, but our area specifically is referred to as the Space Coast.

Kansas City: simply the Metro

Johnson County: JoCo


Lincoln: Star City (pretty common)
also the Second City (since Nebraska used to have license plates with the format of #-#### where the number to the left of the dash was the county number. Lincoln's county number is 2.) Now the three largest counties have gotten rid of the county number, while the rest of the state continues to use that system.

Lake Charles, LA is SW LA
or Lake Chuck

others in LA

Lafayette-MS Border and North to Alexandria is Cajun Countrya

North LA is strictly North LA

T.O. has been called that too

The whole six county area around Chicago is called Chicagoland. Like a theme park. (The rest of Illinois is considered Downstate)

We called my town Boringbrook when we were in high school.

Its been that way all of my life. When I was growing up in Brooklyn, and we were heading into Manhattan, we would say that we were "going to the City," even though Brooklyn is part of the same municipality.

Also, people who live in Manhattan don't identify with living in Manhattan. We identify with areas and neighborhoods. For example, Manhattan south of 23rd St. is "Downtown." Downtown has a different culture than Uptown. So many people (myself included) identify more with Downtown than another area. Also, Downtown has many neighborhoods including Greenwich Village, SoHo, TriBeCa, Chinatown, Battery Park City (which is all the way down, but culturally more like Uptown) and more.

SC is mainly divided into 2 sections...the Upstate and the Low Country. I live in the Upstate. I also live in the portain of the Upstate known as the Piedmont.
I also grew up in a little "country" community known as The Buck Stand!

For my part of Southern California - So. Cal, Southland, SouthBay, or LBC.

DC
The Capital Area
The Area
The Urrea

Maybe more, I dunno.

Also The Arklatex (North Louisiana, Texarkana, Arkansas)
The Arklamiss (North Louisiana,Mississippi, Arkansas)

So much drama in the LBC, its kinda hard being snoop D-O double G. lol.

What does LBC stand for?

I should add that the suburbs surrounding Toronto are called "The 905", after their area code. Toronto's area code is 416.

The R-I-C

River City

Cap(ital) City.

I don't like that last on. It's the laziest thing to call a state capital. River City makes more sence, since there's a river in the direct center of it. Plus, it was founded to be known as "Richon on the James" as opposed to "Richmon on the Thames"

River City

The area of NE Oklahoma including Tulsa: Green Country.

Southeastern Oklahoma: Little Dixie.

I've also heard of it called as "Sodom-on-Potomac" ;)

Hey CAPS, aren't you WEST of A?

I've heard from my DC area friends call it "chocolate city"

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."