# What is your area's nickname? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 23, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387 "2011-02-23T21:36:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/1 "2011-02-23T21:36:30Z")
Inspired by [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=598214), what is the nickname of your local region? Here in Tacoma you can refer to this region as “west side” (anything west of the Cascades), “the Sound” (Everett to Olympia), or “the South Sound” (just Tacoma/Olympia area). When I lived in Spokane the area between the Columbia River and the Rockies was called the “Inland Empire” often in print, but never in everyday conversation. So what do you call your area? ---
**Author:** ![ReticulatingSplines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@ReticulatingSplines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReticulatingSplines)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/2 "2011-02-23T21:42:45Z")
“L.A. for ugly people.” ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/3 "2011-02-23T21:43:57Z")
DC is typically referred to locally as simply “the District.” ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/4 "2011-02-23T21:54:27Z")
It used to be"God’s waiting room". Now we’re just part of the Bay Area (not the good one on the west coast; the shitty one in Florida) ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/5 "2011-02-23T21:54:36Z")
My part of San Francisco is called the Outer Sunset. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/6 "2011-02-23T21:54:42Z")
I’ve never heard this used in conversation, but from my daughter’s and her friend’s Facebook postings (students at the U of Colorado in Boulder), it is known as BOCO. Her friends at CSU in Ft. Collins live in FOCO. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/7 "2011-02-23T21:55:12Z")
Turlock was listed in _The Guiness Book of World Records_ as having the most churches per capita. Nickname: City of God. In the early part of the previous century, it had the nickname of “The Heart of the Central Valley” due to it’s agricultural prominence. California State University at Stanislaus: Turkey Tech.(Foster Farms is a major employer here.) ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/8 "2011-02-23T21:55:44Z")
The Twin Cities. I specifically live in Stadium Village. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/9 "2011-02-23T21:58:55Z")
Melbourne, Florda: part of the Space Coast. ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/10 "2011-02-23T22:04:45Z")
Back when I used to live in Peoria, IL: “Armpit of the tornado alley”. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/11 "2011-02-23T22:08:09Z")
Valley of the Sun ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/12 "2011-02-23T22:17:51Z")
San Jose likes to call itself “The Capital of Silicon Valley”, but I like “Valley of Heart’s Delight” better. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/13 "2011-02-23T22:34:32Z")
the triangle guess where I live ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/14 "2011-02-23T22:45:31Z")
There are two, really. 1. MOV: The Mid-Ohio Valley 2. Chemical Valley. You wouldn’t believe what 75 years of chemical plants will do to the air and water. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/15 "2011-02-23T23:06:21Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > the triangle > > guess where I live Flatland? ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/16 "2011-02-23T23:37:21Z")
I live in Chicago The City of Big Shoulders, The Windy City, Second City, Chi-Town, The City that Works, My Kind of Town, That Toddling Town, and the every popular, The City Where EVERYBODY Votes, and Often 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/17 "2011-02-23T23:39:42Z")
Hipster Central, Twatville, other such disparaging nicknames. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/18 "2011-02-23T23:39:45Z")
Hoboken, NJ, is the Mile Square City. It is also sometimes referred to as the 6th borough. A few years back I was at a college type reunion, and I was talking to a friend from Long Island. Him: Where you living? Me: Hoboken. Him: Oh, the 5th borough. Me: That would be 6th borough. Him: We don’t count Staten Island. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/19 "2011-02-23T23:47:09Z")
Despite continued efforts, “Metrolina” never actually caught on for the Greater Charlotte area. When desperate, advertisers will sometimes refer to this general area as the Southern Piedmont. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/20 "2011-02-23T23:58:28Z")
The Inland Empire. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387.md?page=2)