Whether renting or buying, do you care what the street name is?
No.
There are streets near me that are obviously named after some developer’s kids or nieces and nephews. Cutesy names like “Jacob Stewart” and “Ashley Jessica.” I think I’d cringe every time I had to reel off my address if I lived there, or offer an apology. Don’t think it would stop me from living in a “perfect house” though.
Not usually. But I once lived on a street whose name was my first name. That was cool. I would just tell people to come over to my street.
Yes, it affects my desire to live there, but if the house and price were right I’d overcome my dislike. Between two houses I liked the same, the street name might tip the balance.
Yes. The name of the street my house is on is a popular name, but spelled in such a way you end up having to spell it to everyone you tell it to. I wish I could live on a street that had a simple, easy to spell name.
That being said, ultimately I stilled rented this house. I guess it affected my desire to live there, but not enough to stop me from renting. I would rather spell the street name than pay 200 dollars more per month to live one street over.
A bit. I wouldn’t live on any glurgey “developer’s daughters” streets, names that sound harsh or ugly (“Klumpp Street”, “Shickelmeister Road”, etc), and, yes, to be politically incorrect, “Gay Road”. A nearby town has a lot of streets with long Polish names, which are bound to create some difficulty with phone-based customer support folks.
When I lived in Austin, my address was one of those odd memorial street names that are quite common in Texas, and a lot of people got confused when I had to give it to someone over the phone.
I definitely wouldn’t live on any of the various streets named “Hitler” in Circleville, Ohio.
That would be cool.
Nope, every morning I take the Hitler Expressway to the Mussolini cut off, where I continue for about 10 minutes when I exit to the Pol Pot Parkway. From there I exit on Satan Street and turn right on Osam Bin Lane.
Then from there you continue right past Ayatollah Avenue and my house is 666.
Absolutely. I’ve been home shopping and had been wondering if other people think this way too.
More Geeks!
Man, I’d love to live next to it, on Ezie Street!
I grew up a block way from Easy St.
We just moved to a street with a very whimsical name. I think Mrs P would happily have paid an extra $100,000 or so just for the name.
I’d probably avoid living on MLK, Jr. St/Ave/Blvd in every city I’ve visited or lived in.
There are a couple of streets I would never have even looked at a house on them because of the name. “Little Dowdle Drive” and “Teeter Totter Trail”–I think these were even in the same subdivision.
Also there are streets I wouldn’t care to spend a lot of time spelling and pronouncing. For instance, there’s a street somewhere–I think in Boulder–called “Toedtli.” Or something like that. What a mean thing to call a street. I have no idea how to pronounce that one.
An old friend of mine was living on a street when its name got changed to Martin Luther King Boulevard. She lived on the corner–I think every address on that street was a corner lot–and she changed her address to the cross street, but it pissed her off bad. She was in favor of naming some street after MLK, just not hers.
There used to be a subdivision in Denver called “Swastika Acres.” Up into the '80s, it was still called that, but I think they did change it eventually. But it was in the legal description. You wouldn’t have had to put it on your driver’s license or tell UPS.
You could live on the corner of Gott and Hiscock, conveniently located next to Felch.