How important to you is the name of the street where you live? I’ve come across many odd, confusing, funny, long, and complicated street names in my job and wonder what these people think about their unusual locations.
Would having an undesirable street name sway your decision to buy an otherwise perfect home?
Examples welcome!
When buying our house, I didn’t want:
A) a residence on a street with a focus-group-designed and compound-noun name (e.g., Springmeadow Drive, Snowbridge Lane, Peakview Terrace). Since we bought in the older part of the city, that wasn’t really an issue.
B) a street name with a number (e.g., 4th Street, 144th Avenue). Beats me why I felt that way, but it was a deal-breaker.
It all worked out–we live on a street that is named after plant found on the Russian steppe.
If the location, property, and price were great, I couldn’t care less what you call it.
I’m not sure it would be a dealbreaker. However, when they were going through a lean year, my parents had to make a quick move from a very nice house on Forest Avenue to a crummy little place on Humpfer St. The name didn’t help.
It would have to be a really great house for an unbelievably low price to even make me consider living on Jingle Bell Lane.
We have a street called ‘Barking Dog Lane’ I think they are trying to keep people away…
I’m one of the guys that approved the name. It fit withing our regulations, so what the heck.
There’s a housing development near me that has both Lois Lane and Penny Lane. Very corny, but I wouldn’t live there anyway.
Some years ago, our local city magazine collected the “worst” street names in the city. Among the finalists:
Sulphur
Hydraulic
Flad
They all have houses on them. If those aren’t dealbreaks, nothing is.
There’s a thoroughfare outside Oshkosh, WI, named Skeleton Bridge Road. I always wanted to live there.
I would not want to live on a street with a cutesy yuppie made-up name. Barf.
There’s a road way out of the way, near Syracuse, called Dinglehole Rd. Don’t believe me? The missus and I, as a parting shot before we moved to NYC, drove out there and took a picture! Seemed like a nice area, but you sure as hell wouldn’t catch me living there…
Jingle Bell Lane is cringle worthy, but across the pond on Vancouver Island, there’s a fairly major road called “Jingle Pot Road”. I think those are possibly two of the funniest non-dirty words you could put together. If there was a chance to live on a Jingle Pot Road, I’d be there in an instant.
How about those cutesy intersection names like the corner of…
Amos & Andy
Mason & Dixon
I’m sure I’ve seen more.
You must live in my city. (Actually, I think a rather large number of 'dopers live in my city.)
I definitely got lost on Sulphur one day and I write down delivery orders to Flad all the time.
It wouldn’t be a dealbreaker for me, but I might be willing to pay just a little more if it were a really really cool street name (like “Mars” or “Supercalifragelisticexpialidocious” or “Dorothy Lane” or “Cloud Nine”) Hell, I’d willingly live on Flad or Sulphur.
Although in college towns, I’ve always felt like I didn’t really belong on streets called “Normal” 
Most of the street names here are unofficial, and usually those are pretty boring. Some of the interesting ones in Tokyo include Killer Street in Shibuya, Piss Alley in Shinjuku, and the inexeplicably named Donaustrasse where I live.
I live on a street with a boring name that I’m not really fond of, but there are a couple of streets around here that I’d love to live on.
Sunnydale (with the added bonus that there is a funeral home on the same street)
Black Cat Road
Chicken Dinner Road
I live on The Street. Hard to feel much passion about that one.
We live in one of those neigborhoods that has themed street names:
Bridgecreek
Bannon Creek
Mill Creek
Creekmill
Stone Creek
Bridgeford
Pebblewood
Pebblestone
Brookstone
Crossmill
Sagemill
Bendmill
You get the picture. It’s very confusing for people coming to the house for the first time. We used to live on Stone Creek, we’d tell people how to get there, “Turn onto Pebblewood make sure it’s wood not Pebblestone. There’s two of them almost the same. Right next to each other.” Now it’s “Make sure you turn on Bridgecreek not Bannon Creek.”
But, we put up with it because we love our neighborhood. We’ve lived here, first in our apartment, now in our house for nearly 13 yrs.
My current apartment is on “Ferber Street”. Right off of “Erlanger”.
Yech…
I live on a street with a fairly generic 1950’s-style name. I just like living at #1. 
However, there appears to have been one developer in the Toronto area whose naming staff were on serious drugs back in the sixties and seventies. Scattered through the northern suburbs are clusters of streets with names like Tree Sparroway and Elsa Vineway, Bracken Fernway, Burnt Meadoway and Low Meadoway, Cheryl Shepway, Grado Villaway, and many many more. (Zoom in to read the names if need be.)
And in the same general area is perhaps the most unpleasantly-suggestive street name in Toronto: Old Cummer Avenue.
We live in Stratford Glen, so all of our street names are from Shakespeare. Unfortunately, they used Tybalt four times (lane, drive, court, and circle) and Polonius twice. I mean, come on! They guy was quite a prolific writer - I’m sure there were other names to choose from. We’ve got:
King Lear
MacBeth
Jester
Polonius
and
Tybalt
(It’s a small subdivision). Talk about lame!
Just around the bend is Liberty Creek. We refused to look at houses on Pillory Way. (The neighborhood wasn’t as nice, either.)