I live next to Long Beach, CA. I’ve heard this area referred to as the “South Bay” or “Mid Cities” area (usually referring to the cities along the 605 freeway starting from the 405).
Have you heard anything different about this area? What about the one you live in?
The Pit
The World’s Largest Freeway Offramp
Sili Valley
or my favorite:
The Technological Engine of the World
The general name for the area I live in is just the “Upstate” or sometimes the Piedmont.
Also known as South Cakalaki (South Carolina).
Which also happens to be a big pet peeve of mine. I HATE to hear someone say that.
My hometown, Spartanburg, is sometimes called “SparkleCity” which isn’t nearly as annoying as South Cakalaki. I don’t have the slightest idea where that nickname orginated from.
The Live Music Capital of the World
I’m from Tyler “The Rose Capital of the World” Texas.
I now live in Big “D”. (Dallas, of course)
Two island cities in the area, University Park and Highland Park are referred to as (you guessed it) the Park Cities.
The Montrose.
Formerly “The AIDS capital of Texas.”
The Armpit of the Nation!
Palo Alto = Shallow Alto
Los Angeles = Los Scandalous … or the City of Angels. Whatever.
The City of Champions - that’s where I live.
The Windy City
The City of Broad Shoulders
My Kind of Town (sorta)
Home of the Straigth Dope!
Titusville, PA has signs up all over the place proclaiming it to be in the “Valley That Changed the World.” It was the first place in the world with an oil well. Lately, though, friends of mine have taken to calling it “The Valley That Ruined the World” instead, which I think is catchier 
Cowtown
Panther City
“Where the West begins”
Who are these imposters and when may we inflict severe taunting upon them?!?
nothing special, my area is Southern Maryland, though it is home to SMIBs (So. MD InBreds - those who were born and raised here and have never been anywhere else)
The area where I went to college was the very northern-most part of NY and was called The North Country.
Madison, WI (went to grad school there) - Mad Town, Badgertown
(UW-Madison mascot is Bucky Badger)
“Beautiful, downtown Burbank!”
Well, I don’t actually live downtown, but you get the idea. If anything, I’m closer to the studio where that originated than I am to downtown.
Anchortown, and “Los Anchorage” (because diehard locals actually LIKE the harsh frontier environment and say that “the nicest thing about Anchorage is that it’s so close to Alaska”).
IMNSHO, Anchorage can just GROW and GROW, I’d like to see it a HELL of a lot bigger. Despite living here for 33 of my 44 years, I’m still a city girl, and it wouldn’t hurt my feelings at ALL if I never heard the words “fish on,” “snowmachine,” or “hunting season” ever again.
Brisvegas!
I live in “The Gatherine Place.” Two points if you know where that is. Oahu. The other islands use their nicknames more.
Damn, Maxxxie beat me to Brisvegas…
How about The Sunshine State/The Smart State for Queensland?
“Tigerstaden”, that is “Tiger city”…
Orig. “Oslo” in Norway.