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i wonder if Mountain Home, Arkansas has a nickname??? i will do some research...well it really is an old person town...and my hometown is Oceanside, California
SF
the city
frisco
the sco
sucker free city
the SFC (sucker free city)
fog town
the 415
baghdad by the bay
the city that knows how
San Franpsycho
San Fransicko
the land of fruits and nuts
Maryland=The People's Republic of Maryland or Communist Merryland; The Free State; America in Miniature; the state no foreigner has heard of
Baltimore=Charm City
Montgomery County=MoCo (also with "communist" and "socialist" prefix)
Prince George's=PG or the Wild West (doesn't really make any sense but I've heard it more than once)
Washington DC=DC (bet u never heard that one before lol), the District, the District of Crime
Baltimore, Maryland=Bodymore, Murderland (from grafitti on The Wire, not an actual nickname)
College Park=Beat[in reality the profane word beginning with F] Duke
Takoma Park=Berkely of the East
In VA:
Virginia=the Old Dominion; where Dixie begins
Fairfax=Fairtax
Woodbridge=Hoodbridge
Charlottesville=Methtown
Ashburn=Hashburn
Northern Virginia=NoVa
Everywhere else in Virginia="real" Virginia
West Virginia=Hickland (no offense)
Pennsylvania= the Keystone state (whatever that means)
The Queen City (old, no longer used)
The Jet City (Boeing, used mostly in the late 60's & 70's)
The Emerald City (natives hate it, sportscasters seem to love it)
Grunge City (sooo 90's)
"The coffee city", or "The caffienated city", (usually used in fun)
"The Rain City" (will live forever)
Bonus off location mention: Grand Rapids, Michigan (The Furniture City)
I only know this because that is where my father is from...
City of firsts
City of homes, but sometimes depending on who you ask you'll get
City of homies
Bangfield
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