That’s right for the bigger picture, but the clue was more specific than just that - down to the suburb.
And it’s Cape Town, two words.
I live near an Ironworks started 79 years later in the American Colonies, but whose name means “First”, on a road of the same name.
I live about 20 miles from where there’s no there.
I live on an island that used to be a British Crown Colony. I’m in the biggest city, on the southern end of the island, that is sometimes referred to as the land of “newly weds and nearly deads”.
We have a lot of trees, but sometimes they catch on fire.
Due north of Texas, due south of Victoria Island, in pancake country.
Any tree you see around here, is there because someone wanted it there.
I live in a city in which large numbers of adults are employed in an industry of make-believe, in a state that catches on fire every year (sometimes followed by mudslides) but is prized for its weather.
My west coast city was named after a book by a 19th Century Austrian journalist. The old part of the city is older than your city, and has a rock in its harbor to which a woman was once chained as a sacrifice to a sea monster.
I did not know that. For some reason, I always assumed it was named after an actual local example of the relevant archaeological feature, like so many other places in the wider region, and not a metaphor.
24 other towns in the USA have the same name as my town. In the ‘big city’ nearby, we have two very large rockets, one (mockup) erect and one (real) on it’s side.
I live in a very rural part of the land of curdled milk, cow manure and beer flatulence, next to a huge body of fresh water which tries to eat my home every few decades. I’m a few miles southeast of a hamlet whose local name translates into English as “East East Town”.
Is the ‘big city’ Huntsville, Alabama? Oh, just occurred to me: if so, you live in Madison. Say, “Hi! y’all,” to my kin when ya bump into 'em.
A Road Runner cartoon, . . . ruined by the arrival of humans.
Yep–made it too obvious with the rockets. As for bumping into your kin, y’all seen how much this town has grown??
Yup, on the underside, just in back of the head. Which makes it weird that this where you get discharges from the Big O.
My city was named after a guy who was executed because while he was looking for the lost city of gold, his men broke the terms of his pardon and raided a Spanish outpost.
I live on the skin tag on the underside of the wang. It is as sweaty as a crotch here. It’s heavenly name belies it’s hellish people.
^ Leningrad!
I live in Ocala and may have my anatomy re:foreskins incorrect.
Hee! I took it to mean you live in South FL. What kind of scary ass circumcisions are you used too? 
