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I live on a street that has a very common and easy to spell name. But, thanks to a certain horror movie franchise, I often get comments about living on Elm St.
A few around the Des Moines metro come to mind, my favorite is Easy Street.
There is a Red Bud Court for the green Hawaiian gardener in you, we also have a nicer than average trailer court of considerable size, with street names from the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. It features Camelot, King Arthur and Lancelot Drive, to name a few.
I thought about this before. It depends on what kind of name. I don't want to live on a street named Strange or somebody's weird first or last name for example.
There's a road in Lexington, KY named "The". The suffix is "Lane".
I guess they wanted to feel exclusive. I'd totally live there, if there weren't a silo in the middle of the road.
Here it is on Google Street View. Unfortunately Google didn't drive down "The Lane", but it's 1 lane wide, with driveways and mailboxes on the left (if you enter in that direction), and a tree line immediately on your right. A little ways down there's an old silo in the middle of the road, and the road literally just scoots around it.
Wouldn't bother me but around me someone took naming too far; a developer called his neighborhood "Devil's Hollow." Absolutely gorgeous and prime property... but with a name like that man, I don't know, it just seems wrong.
There is a street a few blocks away from mine named Grim, after the surname of some notable person of the era, but it just seems so depressing to me; I would not want to live on that street and tell people that or write that on envelopes.
I like that I live in a classic Spanish Revival house on a street with a classic Spanish name, in a Spanish named city. It just seems so right.
I am a retired Realtor and when I first started my job I was on phone duty at the office and got a call from a lady who said she was interested in a beautiful house on a horrible named street....She and her husband ended up being my very first Buyers. They DID buy the house she called me about on Spend a Buck Drive...Turns out all of the streets in that neighborhood were named after famous race horses!!! The street is in Dillsburg, Pa and they have a pickle drop every New Years Eve!!!
On another note....My husband knows a very burly guy in Md who, when asked the name of his new home,s street address, hesitated and asked my husband how he would feel inviting the guys over to watch the game atFragrant Lilies Way!!!
We just moved from Pa to Michigan and retired to a town called Gaylord....Thank goodness it isn't pronounced the way it reads....Locals pronounce it Gaylurd.....
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