Well I felt like using a word that summed up the whole country 
Judging by the last few weeks events being a whole country is not a bad aspiration.
(and in case you wondered I think Don Brash is a complete tosser!..I also would love to yabber with you one day )
Does make you wonder why the truly innovative and inspirational type who came up with “North Island” and “South Island” wasn’t made to go away and not come back till he thought of something original though.
Hmm. AFAIK, my little spot used to be either Rancho Vallejo or Napa Junction, but I suspect that it was originally “that low place by the river, where no one lives.”
Had to look up the spelling of this one.
Eblana.
I think technically we’re living on the land of the Sint-Pieters Abdij, just outside Gandavum (Roman foundations?).
I split my time between my parents’ place and my grandfather’s. My parents, my sister and I grew up in Youghall, which apparently used to be called Youghal. When and why they added a second “L”, I don’t know. As it is, Youghal(l) is now part of the big city, formerly called St-Pierre or/then St. Peters. St. Peters remains as the name of the main stretch of road through the city.
My grandfather lives just outside the city in North Tetagouche which, according to Geographical Names of New Brunswick, used to be called Kinsale. I call it “The Good Side of the River”. Those who live in South Tetagouche live on “The Bad Side of the River”. 
Anyhoo…
The Roman encampment Cocclium (modern day Wigan).
Boardtown, which is just twenty miles from Possumtown(I wonder why they changed it?)
Mountain Home AFB has always been Mountain Home AFB. Well, if you want to get anal about it, it was Mountain Home Army Air Field.
However, the nearby town it’s named after was formerly Tutville .
[I could have sworn I posted this early this morning. Lack of sleep, etc.]
Tusculan, Nope, I don’t sleep a lot. See above. gaap… I’m on the [translated]: Beltway.
**grienspace **,
hehehe. Nah, that was before the Dutch made America unsafe. [btw: Can you believe we traded New York for Surinam?]
It would be fun to call New York “New Yorkelledamme”, though. Don’t you think?
Chicago’s always been called Chicago, although before it was incorporated, there was a Fort Dearborn, near the mouth of the river.
I’m originally from the well known Northern Mexico port city of Yerba Buena, though.
Richmond Landing, back when it was the spot on the river where you got off the boat to go to the thriving settlement of Richmond. Later, Bytown, after the British Army major who turned it into a viable settlement by placing the north end of the Rideau Canal here. I doubt that there was an earlier native settlement, as archeological remains seem to indicate that the Indians mostly camped on the other side of the river, where the best portage route around the rapids was located.
North, Northeast of Duwamps, where the Pilchuck river empties into the Snohomish river.
Waterloo, Republic of Texas
