Whats your area called?

[Honeykiss1974]

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

[bekibug]

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.

[blueGBI]

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).

[Rudey]

Originally posted by blueGBI
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

[ZTABullwinkle]

Tidewater or (as of more recent) Hampton Roads:

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

[TheEpitome1920]

I live in Chicago, my neighborhood is referred to as South Shore. I was raised in Germantown, Philadelphia

[GMUBunny]

Originally posted by ZTABullwinkle
Tidewater or (as of more recent) Hampton Roads:

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

Or, if we wanna get technical about it... if you're on the Newport News/Hampton side of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel (the HRBT), you're on the Peninsula. If you're south of the HRBT, you're on the Southside. If you wanna be all cool, the whole area can be collectively called the "757" because of the area code or the "Seven Cities" if you include Suffolk. But no one around here actually uses those, besides the occasional radio station that doesn't play the kinda music I listen to

Then there's always The-East-Coast's-Largest-and-Most-Continuously-Backed-Up-Demographic-Cul-de-Sac-Because-VDOT-Can't-Finish-Anything-It-Starts.

[AXOeva]

Originally posted by JennRN
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!!

In addition to the Triangle, the greater Greensboro-Winston Salem- High Point area is called the Piedmont Triad.

I'm originally from New Jersey and people from Jersey are very specific to what part. I am from North Jersey as opposed to South Jersey, Central Jersey or The Shore.

If you are in North Jersey, Manhattan is "The City".
If you are in South Jersey, Philadelphia is "The City".

As for the Tri-State Area, it varies. In my area of Jersey, it is NJ-NY-PA. If you are in NY it is probably gonna be NY-NJ-CT.

And of course for my fellow Eloner's.... you cannot forget "The Bubble"!

[CougADPi]

Pullman is in an area known as the Palouse.

I live in the one of the "TriCities" now, and I have heard it referred to as the "Dry Sh!ties" since its in the middle of a desert.

There is also Spokane which people in Pullman at least refer to as "Spokompton"

[texas*princess]

I think I already answered this, but this area is generally known as "DFW"

Dallas is sometimes referred to as the "Big D"

Denton is sometimes referred to as the "little d" (hehehe)

and Fort Worth is sometimes referred to as "Cow Town" (although I don't really get that one... I haven't seen cows here ever.. must be a back-in-the-day thing)

[emleepc]

while in college: Florence, AL is Flo-town
Birmingham, AL: the 'Ham

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by texas*princess
I think I already answered this, but this area is generally known as "DFW"

Dallas is sometimes referred to as the "Big D"

Denton is sometimes referred to as the "little d" (hehehe)

and Fort Worth is sometimes referred to as "Cow Town" (although I don't really get that one... I haven't seen cows here ever.. must be a back-in-the-day thing)

DFW because of the 'big airport' (previously, Fort Worth had Greater Southwest International Airport; much of what now is American Airlines corporate headquarters in the Centerport office park used to be that airport. If you look (quickly) to your right while taking the ramp from DFW Airport to Highway 360 you'll see the abandoned approach end of one of the runways of Greater Southwestern. (Just to be on the safe side, they've been marked with giant yellow "X" marks so pilots will know not to land there - highly unlikely!)

Before DFW was built, Dallas' major airport was Love Field. Part of the agreement between Dallas and Fort Worth was that they were to close their airports when the new one was built. Fort Worth lived up to their end of the deal, and all the major airlines of the day packed up and left Love Field. Southwest Airlines (at the time only an intrastate air carrier) did not sign the agreement and stayed at Love. Only after the airlines were deregulated in 1980 did Southwest begin to spread its wings outside Texas, and that's when then-Speaker of the House Jim Wright came up with the Wright Amendment.

Fort Worth is known as 'Cowtown' because it was the southern end of many of the Old West's cattle trails, and for its stockyards which processed them.

[sigtau305]

Cleveland / Akron Area : The North Coast , The North East

Cleveland : The C-L-E

[Tom Earp]

Kansas City, The Metro.

It is still Gods Country!

KC, Mo, was at one time the Largest at 50 Miles across, the biggest.

But, if you really get serious counting the Burbs, Damn, Lawerence, Ks. on the West to Blue Spings on the East, South, Peculiur(Home of alphagam_alum), to St. Joesph to the North, Damn bring a sack Lunch, damn it is bit.

Did a drive around or road trip of I-435, the loop around the City, 4 hours. Oh, did stop to get a food fix!

Come To KC The Metro, right AlphaGam_Alum!

[APhi Diva]

Originally posted by ihearttrisigma

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.

I LOVE Pennsyltucky....AKA Pennsylbama (no, I don't love the place, but the name always makes me laugh!!)