# Deprecating names of cities **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 4, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deprecating-names-of-cities/614699 "2012-03-04T03:39:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![D.E.S.K.Top668](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deprecating-names-of-cities/614699/141 "2019-07-20T21:31:20Z")
In the high desert of SoCal, you have the triple threat of Hysteria (Hesperia,) Victimville (Victorville,) and Crapple Valley (Apple Valley.) All three of them are cities you don’t so much move to as you end up in. ---
**Author:** ![Madam\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madam_librarian/32/3123_2.png) [@Madam\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madam_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deprecating-names-of-cities/614699/142 "2019-07-20T23:47:25Z")
Growing up in Orange County, CA, there was the aforementioned Garbage Grove (Garden Grove), but my favorites, because they’re clever: Anaheim: Klanaheim (due to the infiltration of the KKK during the 1920s) and Anacrime. La Habra (which now has a large Hispanic population): Guadalahabra. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deprecating-names-of-cities/614699/143 "2019-07-21T02:11:24Z")
Des Peres, Missouri \> Despair, Misery ---
**Author:** ![2Bits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e95f7d/32.png) [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deprecating-names-of-cities/614699/144 "2019-07-21T11:47:01Z")
Fond du Lac (Wisconsin): “Fondle sack.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro ---
**Author:** ![Sofrito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sofrito/32/510_2.png) [@Sofrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofrito)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deprecating-names-of-cities/614699/145 "2019-07-21T13:24:43Z")
Nacogdoches, TX \> Nacanowhere. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deprecating-names-of-cities/614699/146 "2019-07-21T15:39:25Z")
Bleaksburg, VA, home of Virginia Tech. (Blacksburg, actually.) Blountville, TN is pronounced “Bluntville.” Given that, I’m not sure it needs a nickname. Blountville, which isn’t exactly huge, is home to the Tri-Cities\* Airport, and also the home of Northeast State Technical Community College. AKA “Airport High” according to my wife, who taught there for five years. - Johnson City, TN, Kingsport, TN, and Bristol VA/TN, “[A Good Place To Live](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/richmond.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/7/cd/7cd115c8-af8d-58c8-af33-768a8894953c/5ca20d34c25bd.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C1340)” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deprecating-names-of-cities/614699/147 "2019-07-21T16:09:09Z")
One nick-name for Baltimore is “Crown Jewel of the Patapsco drainage basin.” Make of it what you will. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deprecating-names-of-cities/614699/148 "2019-07-25T04:19:13Z")
I knew someone from Sacramento and he called it “Suck-ramento” and “Excremento”. JpnGal is from the prefecture north of Tokyo called “Saitama” (SIGH-TA-MA). Tokyoites sometimes refer to that place as “Dasai-tama”. Dasai means “tacky, lame, out of style, etc.” ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deprecating-names-of-cities/614699/149 "2019-07-26T19:04:46Z")
Chamblee, Georgia, is a small working-class suburb of Atlanta. It’s slowly gentrifying, but when I was in high school in a nearby community, it had a large population of Hispanic and Asian immigrants, and was known as “Shambodia” or “Shambles”. Decatur, another Atlanta suburb, used to be known for its gay population, to the extent that “Lives in Decatur and drives a Subaru” was code for “lesbian”, prompting the nickname “Dick-hater”. Despite the obvious, Tucker, Georgia does not have a nickname, so far as I know. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deprecating-names-of-cities/614699/150 "2019-07-26T19:16:09Z")
Seven years and four pages and no mention of El Asso for El Paso? Or is that one just too obvious? ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2019, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deprecating-names-of-cities/614699/151 "2019-08-04T05:41:29Z")
Roommate in college was from “Killadelphia, Pistolvania”. Hagerstown, MD is variously “Hagersbush” or “Hagerstucky” ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2019, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deprecating-names-of-cities/614699/152 "2019-08-04T07:06:39Z")
> [@D.E.S.K.Top668](#): > > In the high desert of SoCal, you have the triple threat of Hysteria (Hesperia,) Victimville (Victorville,) and Crapple Valley (Apple Valley.) > All three of them are cities you don’t so much move to as you end up in. you forgot landscatter (Lancaster) i dont think Palmdale had one tho … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deprecating-names-of-cities/614699.md?page=7)