Street name importance

In My Humble Opinion
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There’s a neighborhood in Jacksonville, FL full of rather dull, concrete block homes, of names including:
Miss Muffet Lane
Jack Horner Lane
Goldilocks Lane
Tinkerbell Lane
Bo Peep Drive
Pinnochio Drive
Figaro Lane
Looking Glass Lane
I’d be hard-pressed to even* look * in such a neighborhood, much less bid on a house there.

The neighborhood where I grew up was full of Oaks - Water Oak, Willow Oak, Black Oak, Red Oak, White Oak, Oak… We lived on Amuskai - maybe that means “oak” in some native language??

We’ve lived on several streets with long names:
Sunrise Village Dr
Lake Asbury Drive
Hickory Glen Drive
Those are a huge pain when you fill out forms - often they’re longer than space allows. We bought some property on Oak Drive, figuring that’s where we’d build. But instead we bought a house on Woodridge Dr, and sold the lot, so we’ve not only got a longer name, I have to tell people it’s one word, not 2.

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The triangle of Hickory Ave., Dickory Ave., and Dock Street (with Mouse Ln. nearby) in Harahan, LA.

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A new development in one of the wealthy Boston suburbs went all ‘cutesy natural’ in picking their names. Thinks like: Brown Bear Crossing, Stag Leap, Pine Cone Lane, and so forth.

My friend worked the sales department for the development. She claimed there was one street that gave them particular difficulties, that the last six houses unsold in the development were all on it. The name? Nut Meadow.

:stuck_out_tongue:
What I wonder now is why didn’t they just change the name? Turn it into “Pheasant Nest Way” or something? Is it that hard to rename streets?

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While most of the streets in Kenner, LA, are either named after streets or numbered, the neighborhood around the medical center has streets named after universities.

South to North: Auburn, Baylor, Clemson, Duke, Emerson, Furman, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Incarnate Word, Johns Hopkins, Kilgore, Louisiana State, Loyola, Miami, Milsaps, William and Mary, Houston, Notre Dame, Oglethorpe, Purdue, Rice, Stanford, and Temple.

West to East: Tulane, Northwestern, Loyola, Trinity, Kingston, Dartmouth, Oberlin, Emory, Bradley, Colgate, Princeton, Marquette, Yale, and Ole Miss.

Yes, there are two Loyolas: one separated into W Loyola and E Loyola by the third, which is just plain Loyola.

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My sister lives on Dickman Drive, which makes the twelve-year-old within giggle. It’s named after, I believe, a dead general.

66

Weird…that second “streets” should have been “states”.

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When I was a child, we lived on Hooker Lane for a while. I think I can live anywhere now.

I have a friend who lives on Gay Street, half a block away from where it crosses Queens Road. He’d been there a year before he noticed.

68

I grew up on Prison Road. Which would make a great title for a country music song. But it’s since been renamed Trudeau Road.

69

So, does that make you a Cronkite, then? :slight_smile:

Oh yes. The subdivision named after what they demolished to build it. In Whitby, there is a subdivision named Otter Creek. No otters, no creek. (Actually, there never was a creek there.) Pheasant Run. No pheasants, nothing left to run. Hickory Ridge. No trees and flat as a board.

At least Edmison Heights in Peterborough has a hill.

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There’s a Chow Mein Lane --which has the Orient Apartment complex located on it-- in my neighborhood.

I have a client who lives on Pot Hole Road. It’s actually named for Pot Hole Lake, which is at the end of the road.

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There is a Poppinghole Lane on the Kent/Sussex border near Tunbridge Wells.

I live in Gillingham, Kent, which used to be an army town, so a lot of the streets are named after famous generals or land battles (For example, I live on Marlborough Road). Chatham is nearby. It used to be a navy town, so a lot of streets thare are named after sea battles, admirals and warships.

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I just remembered - this is in Michigan, mind you - a subdivision called Grand Wailea. All the streets have Hawaian themed names.
Lanai Place. Maui Drive. Island Court. Wailea Drive.

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I can’t imagine letting a street name affect a house purchase. When I was in high school, we moved to Abseguami Trail and my Mom lived there for 38 years. (Ignorant new people moving in kept calling it Absequami and the street sign has been erroneously changed in recent years.) It is supposed to be an Indian (Algonquin?) word meaning “winding trail that ends at water” which is a good description of the street.

On the other hand, I did get a kick out of several corporations [del]pleading with[/del] petitioning Troy, MI to change the name of the main thoroughfare to 16 Mile Road (consistent with the numbered “Mile” roads to the South) from Big Beaver Rd. I particularly enjoyed that they were turned down after a fiery reception from the citizens who lived near (but not on) Big Beaver.

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Even Hitler Road? Even a long, unpronounceable Polish name? Even a redneck name liike “Lori Lynn Lane,” “Tammi Sue Court” or “Dale Earnhardt Boulevard?”

75

I grew up in Jax - in “Holiday Hills” - names included

Tahiti Rd
Montego Rd
Bimini Rd
Tonga Rd
Lido Rd
Jamaica Rd
Catalina
Trinidad
Acapulco
Barbados
Monte Carlo
Mandalay
Waikiki
VCNJ~

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I live on Longwood Drive, and that is just fine with me…

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I agree with tomndebb. None of these names would actually factor into my decision. If I like everything else about the house, why should a bad street name affect my decision at all? In fact, I thought those in this thread who said that they didn’t buy a place because of the street name were joking. I couldn’t imagine that they could be serious.

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Nobody ever gets my nerdy Historical Reference Humor. :frowning: :smiley:

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There’s a street in Lexington, KY called Pink Pigeon Parkway. I’d be overjoyed for my - say - gay bar being located on such a street. But living there? It wouldn’t factor into my decision in any way, but my twelve-year-old brain would have to snicker everytime I saw a street sign.

Heck, it already does. But nothing beats Longwood Apartments. Would I live there? Hell yes.

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Street names are the bestestest thing since maps! -est overload intended.

You see, I’m currently in Costa Rica. Most streets here don’t have either names or numbers. Houses don’t have numbers. I went to the doctor and my blood test was run in the same clinic; I came out of it with 3 pieces of paper that had to be sent to my insurance company. One piece gives the address as “125m S of the Pizza Hut”; another one as “125m S of Banco Cuscatlán” (the bank is diagonally across from Pizza Hut); the third one as “150m S of Pizza Hut”. Of course, there are no indications which direction is South on any signs, nor compasses in cars. A distance posted as 5km and indicated as 3.8km in GoogleEarth was measured as 8km by the car.

In San José there used to be a huge fig tree. The tree got chopped down over 20 years ago, but people still give addresses in reference to “the big fig tree”.

My apartment is in a condo “2km from the airport” (nobody says in what direction, but it’s townwise, which I think makes it east).
My address back home is in Capuchinos Street and people will insist on taking off the final S… some of the less cultured ones think it’s named Capuccino… (sigh, it’s not “like the coffee”, the coffee is named after the same order of priests as my street). But even when banks insist in adressing their mail to a cup of coffee it reaches me. I’m not so sure about mail adressed “1km west of a tree which doesn’t exist any more”.