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I like it when they name the streets after the types of trees that were removed or the types of wildlife that was displaced to build them. Deer Run Lane? - guess what, the deer hauled *ss out of there when the dozers came along.
I can't stand the ones that add an "e" after Point, like "Heritage Pointe". Also, the ones that use the "The ______ at ______" construction. Here in St Paul, there is a 90s office strip mall built in an old 90s warehousing/freight terminal neighborhood called "The Crossings at Vandalia". (Vandalia is the side street by the development, I have no idea what the "crossings" are, unless they are referring to a railroad crossing a half block down the street).
My all time favorite cheesy name is Town 'n County Florida. It's actually an entire suburban town outside of Tampa!
Do goofy names like these actually attract residents and tenants? Hard to believe they would.
I live in Summerfield Estates, which is a part of Summerfield Manor, which is a part of Woodbridge Estates. There is no "summerfield," there is no manor, and there are no estates, and there certainly isn't a woodbridge. When I first moved there, I actually thought there would be a woodbridge.
Other funny names in my area:
Winding Creekway (the creekway in question now "winds" through a culvert under the plastic houses)
Bay Shore (I'm in a very land-locked states with no significant lakes)
I can't stand the ones that add an "e" afterPoint, like "Heritage Pointe". Also, the ones that use the "The ______ at ______" construction. Here in St Paul, there is a 90s office strip mall built in an old 90s warehousing/freight terminal neighborhood called "The Crossings at Vandalia". (Vandalia is the side street by the development, I have no idea what the "crossings" are, unless they are referring to a railroad crossing a half block down the street).
My all time favorite cheesy name is Town 'n County Florida. It's actually an entire suburban town outside of Tampa!
Do goofy names like these actually attract residents and tenants? Hard to believe they would.
LOL you remind me that in Brunswick, GA there is a large subdivision called Belle Pointe...actually, it is two subdivisions...the 'lower-end' half is called Belle Point; the pricier, more upscale section is Belle Pointe. For another $100,000, you get to tell people that you live in the part with an 'e' on the end.
I can't stand the ones that add an "e" after Point, like "Heritage Pointe". Also, the ones that use the "The ______ at ______" construction. Here in St Paul, there is a 90s office strip mall built in an old 90s warehousing/freight terminal neighborhood called "The Crossings at Vandalia". (Vandalia is the side street by the development, I have no idea what the "crossings" are, unless they are referring to a railroad crossing a half block down the street).
This is exactly what I was going to post. "Pebble Brooke," "Towne Square," "The Shoppes at ___" --so pretentious, tacky and nauseating! Also hate any development full of McMansions with "Manor" or "Estates" in the name. Come to think of it, I hate all of the phony, baseless names given to suburban developments, but some are so ostentatious you just have to laugh.
There is a subdivision in Destin, FL called Destiny. I've spent years mocking the name every time we drive past one of their signs.
I live in Caribbean Village East (not to be confused with Caribbean Village West or Caribbean Village South or Caribbean Village Central in the same mega-development) in what's one of the the least tropical/Caribbean parts of Florida.
This is exactly what I was going to post. "Pebble Brooke," "Towne Square," "The Shoppes at ___" --so pretentious, tacky and nauseating! Also hate any development full of McMansions with "Manor" or "Estates" in the name. Come to think of it, I hate all of the phony, baseless names given to suburban developments, but some are so ostentatious you just have to laugh.
Agree 100%. I would have written the exact same thing.
In Rockville, Maryland there is a subdivision called King Farm. In it there are streets like Longhorn Crescent, Deer Meadow, Trotter Farm, Treemont, Barnside, Grand Champion, Saddle Ridge, Pure Springs, Pasture Side, and Thompsons Dairy.
The thing is....this place was built when the government foreclosed the real Thompson's Dairy and the adjacent farm and sold it to developers after the farmers could no longer pay the increasingly high property taxes.
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