# 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:** 5
**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 25, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/81 "2011-02-25T19:54:35Z")
Forgot to add “River City” to the other monikers for Portland. ---
**Author:** ![wonder\_lust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@wonder\_lust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonder_lust)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/82 "2011-02-25T21:22:09Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > the triangle > > guess where I live Pittsburgh (a.k.a. “da 'burgh”). Where else? ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpine/32/17813_2.png) [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/83 "2011-02-26T00:58:42Z")
The larger region is known as the Western Slope. We’re a little too far north to be part of the Four Corners. South San Juans. Telluride region. Paradise. La-la land. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/84 "2011-02-26T19:25:50Z")
A lot of us call our little island “The Rock”. It is pretty up and down - 2400 ft. elevation about 1 1/2 miles from the ocean. (Orcas Island, WA) ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/85 "2011-02-26T20:00:15Z")
Penniless Park, in the Bay Area. (Pinellas Park, in Pinellas County, on the west (or good) side of Tampa Bay.) ---
**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 26, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/86 "2011-02-26T20:01:50Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Forgot to add “River City” to the other monikers for Portland. I thought for a time in the early 2000s that “River City” was a nickname for Washington, DC, because of a line from an Arnold Schwartzenegger film[.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111503/combined) I was unfamiliar with _The Music Man_ at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/87 "2011-02-26T20:50:46Z")
Wigan, where I was born, used to be called “coalopolis” due to the number of mines. As a student, I lived in Edinburgh, which has the famous “auld reekie” nickname. Bologna, where I live now, has three nicknames: “la grossa” (the fat), “la rossa” (the red) and “la dotta” (the learned). The first refers to the fact that the town is reputed to have the best cuisine in Italy. The second refers to the red colour of the buildings and the fact that the local government was dominated by communists until very recently (and the region is still very left leaning). The last refers to the town’s university, the oldest in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/88 "2011-02-27T01:14:27Z")
I once lived in Albany, GA, and they called that area SOWEGA for southwest Georgia. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/89 "2011-02-27T01:22:04Z")
C-Bus or Cowtown. (Columbus, OH) ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/90 "2011-02-27T02:39:53Z")
The Gateway to Northern Ontario, just east of The Nickel Belt. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/91 "2011-02-27T02:50:14Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 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. We do sometimes like to call ourselves ‘dirtyrottenchester’. Or, just hell hole. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/92 "2011-02-27T03:10:01Z")
The Conch Republic or Paradise:cool: ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/93 "2011-02-28T17:21:24Z")
“Central Florida”. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/94 "2011-02-28T18:55:10Z")
> [@Philliam](#): > > A lot of us call our little island “The Rock”. It is pretty up and down - 2400 ft. elevation about 1 1/2 miles from the ocean. > > (Orcas Island, WA) Oooooh yeeeaaaaah… I vividly remember Orcas Island from the bike trips my church youth group took every summer through the San Juan Islands 😃 My city, Wenatchee, WA, bills itself as “The Apple Capital of the World”. And continues to do so despite Yakima, WA surpassing us in apple production several years ago. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/95 "2011-02-28T19:59:34Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > Cleveland, OH is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart. But I love it’s nickname, “The Mistake by the Lake.” No, No, No, No, No. We that live here don’t call it that ourselves. Jerks from other places call it that. We call it “Cleveland”, or “Greater Cleveland” or “Northeastern Ohio.” We’ll cop to being not too original in our nicknaming, but not to being a mistake. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Hazel\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ms.Hazel\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Hazel_Ice)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/96 "2011-02-28T23:09:58Z")
Lowell, MA is generically called “Mill City” due to all of the large, looming mills around the downtown area. Most of them are slowly being turned into lofts. Of course, you can live in specific parts of Lowell: the Acre (blech), Pawtucketville (not too shabby, but inconveniently on the other side of the Merrimack), the Highlands (Ok), Belvidere (large, historic houses) or Tyler Park (historic, cute, expensive). ---
**Author:** ![bartleby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bartleby/32/10491_2.png) [@bartleby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bartleby)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/97 "2011-03-01T16:37:02Z")
the Gem City the Miami Valley Appalachia North Dayton OH (sadly) ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/98 "2011-03-01T23:45:39Z")
Albuquerque: Known as Duke City. With the neighborhoods I lived in known as the Student Ghetto and The War Zone. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/99 "2011-03-02T00:58:13Z")
The Valley for the general area, which is the Tennessee Valley in the Chattanooga area. Chattanooga itself is The Scenic City, Chattown, Nooga, or The Noog. I don’t know of any for the actual city I live in (Cleveland, TN) other than the ridiculous -vegas suffix that so many cities seem to get saddled with that annoys the crap out of me. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/100 "2011-03-02T06:54:27Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > 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. Never heard of #1 but #2, quite often. I’ve called the area “The Redneck Meth-mouth Capitol of the Universe…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387.md?page=6)