# What is your area's nickname?

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/101 "2011-03-02T13:59:29Z")

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The Circle City, because of I-465, which encompasses the entire city (in a circle!), and also probably because of some race called the Indianapolis 500 over on the west side.

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**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/102 "2011-03-02T18:23:42Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> “Central Florida”. Good times.

I don’t know if that really is a nickname. More of a location.

Usually O-Town or The Mouse House is heard most often in Orlando.

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**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/103 "2011-03-02T18:26:20Z")

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Just got me thinking of other “central florida” names. Kissimmee/St Cloud is Cow Town and Winterpark is Rollinsville.

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**Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/104 "2011-03-03T14:34:55Z")

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Houston can be variously refered to as:

The Bayou City  
H-Town

and while not nearly as common, my personal favorite:

Magnolia City

During certain times of the year, we can be refered to as:

Hot 'N Humid Burg  
AC Central  
or City 'O Skeeters

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**Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/105 "2011-03-06T03:38:36Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> “Central Florida”. Good times.

Orlando’s official nickname for itself is The City Beautiful. I don’t see it.

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-areas-nickname/572387/106 "2011-03-06T03:53:21Z")

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> [@Arien](#):
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> 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.

Arien, where near the Hub do you live? I’m in Canton.

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