Let’s see, I’ve been to Naples, Florida and Naples, Italy. I should have stopped for a pizza in Naples, Florida to compare it with that delicious one I had in Naples, Italy. It seems like there’s a bunch of towns in America that were named after Italian towns. I’ve been to Venice, Italy, and Venice, California. I’m not sure if that counts since Venice, CA is actually a district in Los Angeles, and not a real town/city.
I’ve been to Dublin, California and Dublin, Ireland. Dublin, CA is really lame, while Ireland Dublin is all kinds of awesome. I’m pretty sure I’ve been through Los Angeles, Chile and I was born in Los Angeles, California. Also, Vancouver, Washington and Vancouver, BC. Vancouver BC is way better.
Some friends of my Russian buddy have lived in St. Petersburg Russia and St. Petersburg Florida which is even better. I’ve got a sort of threefer, in being to Brighton, Enland, Brighton in NYC and Brighton in Adelaide, Australia. Some of these may be called Brighton Beach. I just remember that ever since I heard Pinball Wizard, I wanted to go to Brighton. Which reminds me, I’ve been to Soho, London and Soho, NYC, but that doesn’t really count.
Sort of: I have been to Zaragoza (Spain) and to Puebla (Mexico), whose current official name is “Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza”, after a general by the lastname Zaragoza who was born there (and who, judging by his name, had foreparents from Zaragoza). One of the people who were important in the history of Puebla was Cardenal Palafox, virrey of Mexico, who was from thereabouts of where I grew up.
I’ve been to New York City, and I’ve been in Yorkshire.
I lived in Miami (specifically in North Miami and South Miami), worked in Miami Beach for a year and have visited the horror that’s Miami Playa just for kicks. Mom spent several years telling people that I was in Miami, teaching at a university (grad school really), and getting as a response either “Julio Iglesias’ Miami?” “no, poor students Miami, he lives in the rich folks’ part!” or “Miami Playa?” “is there even a primary school in that dump?”
Forgot: Puebla was originally called La Puebla de los Ángeles - and I have been to LA (well, officially, I’m not sure whether all those highways count as “LA” or “thereabouts”; we did go to a factory in East LA and fly to and from LAX).
I still remember a long-ago trip to Athens, Georgia, where a voluptuous cocktail waitress practiced her seductive taunts on me. I was then shy, naïve, and … unrequited. :smack: Unfortunately I’ve never been to Greece.
Before someone else mentions it: two of the world’s largest cities are each named City of Angels. I have been to both.
Do villages count? Where I live there’s at least one Springwater and Deep Well in every province.
Many homonymous cities between the States and the UK; for a brief period of time, my partner and I were both working in Dover – him in Kent, England, and me in Kent County, Delaware (I’ve been to Dover, England, but he’s not been to Dover, Delaware.)
White cliffs are conspicuously lacking in my Dover.
My husband grew up near a medium-size town in country Victoria called Orbost. There’s also an Orbost on the Isle of Skye, and while we were on a trip to the UK we made a point of visiting it.
Orbost on Skye is not a whole lot like Orbost in Victoria. It’s not what you’d call a mid-size town. Specifically, we counted three houses.
One of those houses belonged to a nice English lady who’d been up on Skye for about 15 years raising sheep - she invited us in for a cup of tea. I think she was fond of strangers since (this is the north of Scotland we’re talking here) she hadn’t been living there nearly long enough to be regarded as a local by the other locals. Probably another couple of decades would have done it. She had an interest in local history, and produced a few books for us to browse through.
Turns out Orbost on Skye had, at one point been quite a thriving town. Then some time in the 1850’s or so there were hard times - bad harvests, famine and so on. The town basically upped stakes and emigrated en masse. To somewhere in Australia…
