# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Arien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arien)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/41 "2011-02-24T02:45:58Z")
Beantown is the one everyone’s heard of for Boston but I see it more often referred to by local media as the Hub. Wikipedia has a bunch of other nicknames but I don’t ever see anyone actually using them. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/42 "2011-02-24T03:25:34Z")
The North Shore, home of such John Hughes movies as Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, etc. (his son has a music studio next door to my house) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/43 "2011-02-24T05:00:01Z")
Anchorage, AK was often called ‘Anchortown’. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/44 "2011-02-24T05:13:06Z")
The [Metroplex](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroplex), or DFW ---
**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/45 "2011-02-24T05:14:40Z")
The Coulee Region, the La Crosse WI area of the Driftless Zone. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/46 "2011-02-24T05:19:31Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > 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. My friends in Ft. Collins call it “Fort Fun.” ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/47 "2011-02-24T05:28:53Z")
My part of CT is called “The Quiet Corner.” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/48 "2011-02-24T07:48:25Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > The Old Pueblo. > > (Tucson, AZ) I prefer “The Naked Pueblo,” as used by one of our classic rock stations, KLPX - 96.1. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/49 "2011-02-24T08:00:22Z")
Montgomery, AL- Monkeytown and/or The Gump Monkeytown is an old CB name for the place; Gump became more popular after Forrest, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/50 "2011-02-24T08:35:35Z")
> [@chicken\_wire](#): > > “The Shire” > > It’s not a Tolkien reference or anything. The locals are somewhat insular and probably proud of the fact that the joint isn’t classified as a city. There are a couple of other parts of Sydney that are also suffixed as shires, but this the only one to latch onto it with a kind of xenophobic pride. I’m not allowed into the Shire, as I refuse to wear the flag as a cape and lack the requisite Southern Cross tattoo. 🙂 As you might guess, I live in the Inner West, and I am in Innerwestie. (Newtown, as it happens.) ETA a smilie, cause it looked harsh without one. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/51 "2011-02-24T08:50:13Z")
Tel-Aviv, particularly my part of Tel-Aviv - basically anywhere within an easy Segway ride of Cafe Tamar on Sheinkin St. - is often referred to as “the Bubble”, because of the way we supposedly shut ourself off from the problems of the rest of the country. It’s bullshit, of course (we used to get as many suicide bombings as anywhere), but the stigma remains. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/52 "2011-02-24T08:50:45Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Montgomery, AL- > Monkeytown and/or The Gump > Monkeytown is an old CB name for the place What’s a CB name? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/53 "2011-02-24T08:52:19Z")
The North County, not very exciting really. Although the region is known as Fingal too but that’s not really a nickname. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/54 "2011-02-24T09:27:16Z")
Havre is part of the [Hi-Line](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Line), but not all of it. (In my experience, the term’s most commonly used to refer to all of Montana along the portion of [Highway 2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_2) that’s east of the Rockies.) I suppose part of rural Montana is that our ‘regions’ extend hundreds of miles. Missoula is usually called Zoo Town. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/55 "2011-02-24T09:29:12Z")
I grew up in a lovely (sarcasm) section of Dallas officially know as Pleasant Grove. It was anything but. Locally know as ‘The Grove’, it was home to all manner of white trash. Denizens were known as Grove Rats and home of the Oak Hill Gang. The badasses from Oak Cliff wouldn’t even hang there. Oh, also the home of “The Trap” bar. If you really wanted an ass whipping, that was the place to be. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/56 "2011-02-24T10:29:01Z")
Rochester, NY used to be nicknamed the Flour City because there were a lot of flour mills along the Genesee River. Later on the mills closed and some people were confused when they heard the name (and admittedly there were now several big garden seed companies in the city). So the nickname was changed to the Flower City. Nowadays the seed businesses are also gone. But somehow later industries never got their due so Rochester didn’t go on to become the Mustard City, the Film City, the Contact Lens City, or the Photocopier City. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/57 "2011-02-24T11:45:11Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > What’s a CB name? Trucker lingo, usually spoken when talking on Citizens’ Band radio, or CB. ---
**Author:** ![chicken\_wire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@chicken\_wire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chicken_wire)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/58 "2011-02-24T12:59:26Z")
> [@Gleena](#): > > I’m not allowed into the Shire, as I refuse to wear the flag as a cape and lack the requisite Southern Cross tattoo. 🙂 That’s OK, a lot of the people in the Shire shouldn’t be allowed out, either. Not that leaving would occur to them. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/59 "2011-02-24T13:14:25Z")
The Burgh. The “H” is of great importance. Also the Steel City which is a misnomer nowadays, as the steeliest thing is the HQ of the Steelworkers’ Union. There are two mills still working in the area, but none are actually in the city itself. (Pittsburgh, PA) ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/60 "2011-02-24T13:22:53Z")
> [@campp](#): > > Valley of the Sun There was an episode of _Cold Case Files_ that took place here in Phoenix, the Valley of the Sun. The idiotic announcer kept saying **over and over** “The Sun Valley”. :smack: I can tell you, NO ONE confuses those two, and it was obvious that the writers, producers, and announcer were completely clueless. 🆒 Well, I laughed anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387.md?page=4)