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Philly has a ton of neighborhoods, after all it's a city of neighborhoods. Strawberry Mansion is probably the most intresting because it sounds rich and fancy but it's an old, decaying, ghetto part of town. There's a Strawberry Mansion High School too.
Strawberry Mansion... Google Maps
A few nicknames that are interesting as well are The Badlands (Fairhill/West Kensington) and The Bottom (Deep West Philly, not sure of it's exact perimeters).
Atlanta, GA - Cabbagetown
Baltimore, MD - Pigtown (pigs or hams used to be loaded onto railroads there)
Washington, DC - Foggy Bottom (now it's a very fine neighborhood - but 100 years ago it had the city gasworks)
Cabin John, MD - a very fine, quiet suburb of Wash DC - but its name reminds you of an "out house" (outdoor toilet)
Pohick Road (15 miles south of Washington DC); Powhite Parkway (Richmond, VA); Genito estates (Richmond, VA) - these are all native American names - but they sound comical when you give them an English meaning
Lizard Lick, NC - just outside Raleigh - now there's a reality TV show named after it
Minneapolis:
Dinkytown
Willard-Hay
Powderhorn
Powderhorn Park
Carag
Tangletown
Keewaydin
Lind-Bohanon
Marcy-Holmes
Minnehaha
Standish
Bryn Mawr
Ecco
Whittier
Bohemian Flats
Beltrami
St. Paul:
Frogtown
South of Maryland
Malcalaster-Groveland
Baker-Annapolis
Como
The coolest name out of all of them has to be Armatage, in Minneapolis.
The oddest name has to be Powerhorn, in Minneapolis.
There's lots of towns... Dinkytown, Frogtown, Tangletown, Downtown, Midtown, Lowertown, Uptown...
Some others:
Milwaukee:
Tippecanoe
Muskego Way
Castle Manor
Town of Lake
Des Moines:
Beaverdale
Madison:
Starkweather
East Bluff Homeowners
Tenney-Lapham
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