It was a screen name when the internet was on radios.
“The Garden of England”
Which is the county of Kent, for those not in the know. And as if to prove a point I noticed my Rhubard was poking its head above ground today…yum!
Texoma.
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That’s my guess also.
I live in the Triad.
Somewhere off the Atlantic coast of Miami between San Juan, Puerto Rico and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda?
Southwest Missouri, very near KS, OK, and AR. It’s called “The Fourstates”.
SLO (pronounced “slow”) or San Luis
(San Luis Obispo, CA)
The cluster of cities (Pismo Beach, Shell Beach, Grover Beach, Arroyo Grande and Oceano) just south of SLO is called Five Cities.
Another North Bay or Wine Country. To be even more specific, our area of town is known as South Park.
only one that didn’t drop the h, right?
San Francisco is known in some rather snotty circles as “the City” (note the capital C), to distinguish it from the domiciles of the bridge and tunnel crowd. This usage arose, I believe, from the editorial policy of a once great newspaper that is now a hopeless rag.
The larger area nickname is just “the Bay area” (the good one on the west coast).
Roddy
That’s what we used to call it when I lived there, but it seems to be being replaced by FOCO, at least by the youngsters.
The east 'burbs.
Burquitlam.
I’m originally from the Peel area of The Netherland. Nothing to do with fruit, probably to do with turf in some way.
I’m not in, but certainly in the catchment area of La Serinissima, which I think is the best city nickname in existence.
I grew up in Montgomery County, MD which is apparently now called, “MoCo.”
As an undergrad I lived in “The Piedmont,” “The Triad,” or “Piedmont-Triad” depending on which newscast you heard. (Greensboro-Winston Salem-Highpoint, NC).
As a Grad, I was in Boone, which bills itself as “The Heart of the High Country.”
My internship was in Rutherfordton in “The Isothermal Valley.” Catchy.
Now I’m in Southwest Florida, known as and referred to by the whimsical moniker, “South West Florida.”
I lived in Joplin for several years! Woot!
Land of Lincoln, Lincolnland, the Capital City, and Springpatch are all variously used, depending on context.
(Springfield, Illinois)
My section of town is called “northeast Springfield.”
I lived just south of Jacksonville for my first 17 years! Woot!
I live south of Titletown and east of the Fox Valley. I can’t think of a nickname for my town, although according to Urban Dictionary it has an “unemployed population of lazy losers, winos, and chronic addicts”. Nice.
The Finger Lakes
Twin Tiers or Southern Tier
Other places I’ve lived: Down East, the Triad