Less Than Flattering Alternate City Names? (San Diego, Vista: horse, rated, corporate)

[youngmoney]

The O.C. (horrible tv show)

[majoun]

Warning, some of these names are quite offensive - they don't reflect my views but these are names that are or were commonly heard in Southern California.

Inglewatts

Ghettodale (Palmdale)

AIDS Lake, The Swish Alps, East Brentwood (Silver Lake)

Culver Sh****y, Sonytown, Lop City (Culver City)

Silicone Valley (the San Fernando Valley)

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

Oxnard - Bakersfield by the sea.

Alternate:

Bakersfield - Inland Oxnard

I actually love Oxnard, but my Ventura friends see it this way sometimes. I can take a joke though.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by SOON2BNSURPRISE

Oxnard - Bakersfield by the sea.

I've also heard that term used to describe San Luis Obispo.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Chula Juana
Nasty City
Klantee
Escondildo
Dull Mar
El Cabong

[majoun]

Borrance
Soviet Monica (oddly, used long before Russians started moving into Santa Monica)
El Murder (El Monte)

There are some even more sexually, racially, and religiously offensive names that I know, but in the interests of decency I will not post them here.

[Snort]

There are some even more sexually, racially, and religiously offensive names that I know, but in the interests of decency I will not post them here.

OK, just PM everyone on this thread with that list....inquiring minds want to know.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by Snort

OK, just PM everyone on this thread with that list....inquiring minds want to know.

Let's see;

"Jewhood" (Beverly Hills/Beverlywood/Miracle Mile, most likely Fairfax and West Hollywood as well - formerly used mostly by African-Americans. It does not reflect my own views and I apologize if anyone is offended.)

"Swaziland" (the Cadillac-Corning section of South Robertson, formerly used by whites from surrounding areas - alternately used to describe Hamilton High School, which serves said area. My apologies if this causes anyone to be offended.)


There was a 1950s name for West Adams which is too inflammatory to mention on City-Data, but James Ellroy (whose short stories and novels about 1950s Los Angeles are extremely well researched) wrote a short story by that name collected in his book Hollywood Nocturne- I'll let you figure it out for yourself:

James Ellroy - Authors - Random House

[veg8]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

Chula Juana
Nasty City
Klantee
Escondildo
Dull Mar
El Cabong

Manila Mesa
Rancho Skinnypenis

[JohnG72]

Originally Posted by majoun

Soviet Monica

Oooooh......I've heard it called Peoples Republik of Santa Monica