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Old 09-25-2009, 04:33 PM
 
Location: In my view finder.....
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Chicago:


Chi-town
The windy city
The city of big shoulders

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Old 09-25-2009, 04:35 PM
 
Location: St Paul, MN - NJ's Gold Coast
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Da Sack
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Old 09-25-2009, 04:37 PM
 
Location: Sunny Florida
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Cincinnati:

The Queen City

Porkopolis

The Blue Chip City - I never understood this one, but they were pushing it.

Chili City
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Old 09-25-2009, 04:38 PM
 
Location: Big Apple
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See my Location:
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Old 09-25-2009, 04:42 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ron. View Post
Chicago:


Chi-town
The windy city
The city of big shoulders
To add to that:

Hog Butcher to the World
Second City

Those are the other two big ones.
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Old 09-25-2009, 04:47 PM
 
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San Francisco

Sucka Free City
The Sco
SF
The City
Frisco
Baghdad by the Bay
Fog City
City by the Bay
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Old 09-25-2009, 05:03 PM
 
Location: Youngstown, Ohio
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I like reading what you guys write and am hesitant to add the nicknames of my city, but here goes...
Youngstown

The Steal Valley
The Steel Valley
Ytown
Murder/Crime City (ugg not a good one at all)
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Old 09-25-2009, 05:04 PM
 
Location: MI
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Where I'm at now in Paw Paw it doesn't really have a famous well known name. They call the local car dealership "Two Paws Ford". I prefer to call it Squaw Paw.

Where I'm from originally , Clearwater, FL....back in the day it was reffered to as "Sparkling Clearwater". One of the commonly used jokes while I was growing up......If you saw someone wearing a pair of pants that they had outgrown especially if they were rapidly getting taller, You would say "This is Clearwater, not Highwater".
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Old 09-25-2009, 05:07 PM
 
Location: New York
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New York City: (As a whole)
New York, NY The City So Nice They Named It Twice
Gotham (my favorite one)
The Big Apple
The City That Never Sleeps
The Capital Of The World
Empire City

Brooklyn:
The Borough Of Churches
The Borough Of Trees
BK

Staten Island:
The Forgotten Borough (nickname doesn't really hold as much weight anymore)
The Borough of Parks

The Bronx:
The X
The BX
Boogie Down (or The Boogie Down)

Manhattan:
The City

Queens:
The Crescent Borough (It extends North, East, and South of Brooklyn in a crescent shape)
Q-Borough

Queens is heavily "neighborhood" focused unlike the rest of the boroughs so it has few nicknames for just Queens.

Queens Neighborhoods:
South Jamaica, Queens = Southside (That's where I live)
Far Rockaway, Queens = Far Rock or The Rock
Hollis, Queens = Northside

I know there's more for Queens (and its neighborhoods).

Newark: (Only like 5 miles west of Manhattan and 2 miles northwest of Staten Island)
Brick City

This is just off the top of my head, I know there's more for all of NYC.

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Old 09-25-2009, 07:26 PM
 
Location: Southern Minnesota
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Where I'm at now, Niles, MI, is officially known as the "City of 4 Flags," so called because it was owned by four countries several hundred years ago. It is just the Michigan side of South Bend, IN and isn't an actual city to itself. Niles, along with South Bend and surrounding areas, is known as "Michiana," a combination of Michigan and Indiana.

My hometown, Three Rivers, MI, is known as "T.R.," "3R," "Triple Ripple," and "Triple Creek."
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