Where you live. Do you think most people have heard of it?

[arcadian]

City or town name. Is it so common that you think most people have a common knowledge of your current town/city? Most people being %51 of the population.

For example, most people have heard of say, Tucson, Arizona even though most couldn't tell you anything about it, point to it on a map or anything else. But if you were to say "Tucson" most could tell you it's in Arizona.

[fizzgig]

1. i don't know about most, but i would say a good number

we are consistently named one of the best places to live/retire/raise kids/whatever, we have a large university with one of the top veterinary programs in the country and we make some damn good beer.

[Dr Morbius]

2. Well, everyone who listens to the Stephanie Miller show knows...

...where to find Schaumburg (Oh, Gaaahd!).

[Posteritatis]

3. I've been asked by people in Maine where Nova Scotia is

So that makes me a little skeptical about how widely-known Halifax is.

[qnr]

10. Well, you know - "You can't get there from here" - so precise location details aren't

required for people in Maine :)

[Captain Hilts]

97. Very widely, actually. It had a HUGE role in WWII. And then that big riot. nt

[Dark]

4. Yeah, but I live in a decent sized city. We had a major tv show on a while ago with our name in it.

Plus we have an nfl team.

[TZ]

5. Oh hell no.

Although the city just down the road from me was made into a pop song. ("Don't go back to Rockville")
Otherwise we are just an anonymous burb of DC.

[dawg]

55. Hey, that song was probably written ..

in the city just down the road from me. :)

[lukasahero]

6. Not a chance - but most probably know my neighbor Boston

Heck, people around here don't know my town but I'm sure most people in the world have heard of Boston if only because of 9/11.

[KamaAina]

7. Not only that, they know the way

(ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba...)

I have, however, encountered several people who think it's in SoCal. :dunce:

[sarge43]

8. The people who live here haven't heard of it. n/t

[qnr]

9. There's a good chance they've heard of it, an a better than even chance that

they think it's in California or Florida, instead of Texas.

[Bucky]

13. What, you're in Pasadena?

Growing up, I always thought it was weird that no matter what disparaging thing Johnny Carson said about Pasadena CA, the same thing was true about Pasadena TX, only ten times worse.

[Blue_In_AK]

33. Boy, is THAT the truth.

I lived in Pasadena, Texas, from 1962 to 1968...or actually 1966 because I had an apartment down by the U of H from 1966 until I left after graduation. I couldn't wait to get out of there.

[petronius]

73. There's a Pasadena in Florida? I did not know that

I imagine that most Californians know the place I live, but not so sure that out-of-staters would recognize it...

[qnr]

75. Pasadena wasn't 'mine' - I'm in Corpus Christi. n/t

[qnr]

76. Self-delete, Dupe post for some reason. n/t

[Staph]

11. I have problems when I mention the state that I live in.

When I tell people I'm from West Virginia, they tell me about their friend from Richmond.



C'mon, people, it's a whole nother state!

[Bucky]

12. They probably mean New Richmond

New Richmond, WV. ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Richmond,_West_Virginia

It's in Wyoming county, because the name wasn't quite confusing enough.

[LeftishBrit]

14. Probably . It's Oxford in England.

I was brought up in London, and would definitely guess that the majority of people have heard of that!!!

[TZ]

16. England? I always thought you lived in Oxford, Ohio!

:P (My Dad lives near Oxford, Ohio) :hi:

[HipChick]

17. I've heard of it, only because I preferred Cambridge..

:rofl:

[dawg]

56. Two of my favorite things are connected to Oxford.

Radiohead and J.R.R. Tolkien.

[dawg]

58. No, they haven't heard of this little town ....

but they will, oh yes, they certainly will! :nuke:

Edited to add: Crap, I meant this to be a reply to the orignal post, not to my own post.

[abq e streeter]

15. Immortalized by Bugs Bunny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8TUwHTfOOU

[Captain Hilts]

89. Bugs really owns your town, just as he does the Barber of Seville opera. nt

[greendog]

18. Most people haven't heard of Kalispell.

I hadn't either till I moved here. We're kind of up here in the middle of nowhere. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. My dear greendog!

Well, I've heard of Kalispell! We have a very good friend who lives there!

:hi:

[arcadian]

22. I've heard of Kalispell

But you are probably correct

[Kali]

28. I have

:P

[pokerfan]

30. I've been to Kalispell

on my way to Whitefish to go skiing.

[petronius]

74. I think I've been to Kalispell - it's somewhere in the U.S., right?

Near a lake or something? :silly:

[tblue]

82. I've been there!

To a playwrights conference in Big Fork. Beautiful area!!!

[Kat45]

19. Well, last week it was on the news 24/7, so I'd say lots of people have heard of it now.

It was the story about the raids of homes of immigrants suspected of helping the Times Square bomber. But before you know it, they will have forgotten about the town again.

[femmocrat]

21. I live in a township that no one ever heard of.

Our post office is in another township. It's weird. The town where the post office is located is so small, that the post office is the only reason anyone ever goes there.

[cwydro]

23. Key West...and oh yes

people have heard of it and they are going to hear more...for all the wrong reasons very soon.

[Captain Hilts]

90. I lived there. Facing the Gulf on Trumbo Point. nt

[tango-tee]

24. Yes, and in a very bad sense at that.

Nuremberg, Germany.

[SoxFan]

25. Every four years

For one week every four years, we become the center of the political universe. NBC/MSNBC commandeers the Radisson and all of its ballrooms, ABC has a temp studio in the city hall parking lot, you see James Carville at the coffee shop, and John King drops in to have a beer at your buddy's nightclub.

[MrSlayer]

26. No one has ever heard of this one horse town called Philadelphia.

It has no historical significance, no landmarks, no one of any note ever resided here.

[TZ]

46. lol

And the people are so quiet and introverted you wouldn't know its a big city at all....:rofl:

[Kali]

27. Dragoon

no, hardly anybody has heard of it, hell I don't even live there - it's just where the post office is

actually there is a good chance more people have heard of the more specific location of where I live - Texas Canyon, becasue the freaking interstate goes through and there are signs and a rest stop named after it (even though technically the rest stop isn't even in the TC drainage/watershed, but that never stopped a "promoter" from naming some attraction)

[Inchworm]

29. yes, and...

no :silly:

:hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

31. Yes, I live in Anchorage

and if there's another one somewhere, I can't think of it. ??

[PJPhreak]

32. no

My gym class in High School had more bodies in it than the town I live in,really

[mycatfred]

34. I don't know

Has any one ever heard of these towns?
Motamedi, Minnesota (Dad's place of birth and where I lived when I was really little, I learned to walk in the airport on our way away from there)
Wells, Nevada (While it wasn't really the place I was born, as the nearest hospital was in Elko at the time, it's where I live now, and I consider it my hometown)
Clear Lake, Washington (Come on, you've heard of it, it's reached it's grand total of sixty people. So maybe I'm exaggerating, it's close enough)
Payette, Idaho (Probably the one people will have heard of, even more so then Wells.)

[Drunken Irishman]

38. I've heard of Wells, Nevada...

But that's because it's very close to Utah.

The earthquake they had there a few years ago was big news here in SLC.

[geardaddy]

64. That's Mahtomedi

I know exactly where that is.

[mycatfred]

68. I KNEW

It had an 'H' in it somewhere.
Thanks for correcting me :)

[geardaddy]

87. No prob.

I actually had to look it up. Your spelling didn't look quite right, but I wasn't sure how it was spelled.

[abq e streeter]

98. Thought Payette sounded familiar--hometown of Harmon Killebrew

[mycatfred]

99. Yep

The high school playing field is named after him.

[MiddleFingerMom]

35. I was going to say "Tucson, Arizona".

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[mcctatas]

36. Oshkosh WI...

I think we are famous for jeans or something, even though they are now made in China

[TZ]

41. Denim overalls.

At least thats what I associate with it.

[arcadian]

42. There is the big airshow there too

[geardaddy]

65. B'gosh!

:hi:

[Drunken Irishman]

37. I think most have heard of Salt Lake City...

[Rhiannon12866]

39. Not hardly. When I say I live in NY, most people assume the city.

Actually, I live closer to Canada than to NYC, and that's fine with me. :)

[geardaddy]

66. Are you anywhere near the Finger Lakes?

I went to college in Geneva.

[Captain Hilts]

93. Then you know the Remsen, NY jokes? nt

[geardaddy]

105. Nope.

Never heard of it.

But we did have a saying at Hobart:

Wells to wed
Keuka to bed
and William Smith just for convenience.

[Captain Hilts]

108. Remsen is a town up Route 12. A lot of Welsh settled there. You still

see the Welsh flag. Folks had no clue why they all ended up there, so the joke was as they got off the ship in NYC they'd say "If THIS is New York City, WHAT must Remsen be like!"

Okay, lame humor, but there are a lot of Welsh up Route 12 North of Utica.

[geardaddy]

111. I knew there was a noticeable Welsh pop near Utica.

I just didn't know where.

Cute joke, btw. :D

[Captain Hilts]

91. I recently heard 'Utica' pronounced You-TISH-uh as in rhymes with 'Morticia'. nt

[Phentex]

40. Yes, but I still get asked to spell Georgia...

over the phone. I don't get that. It's not like one of those states with double letters or anything! :shrug:

I think people who fly a lot have flown through Atlanta a time or two.

[mnhtnbb]

43. Basketball fans know Chapel Hill, NC. Rest of the world? Eh.

[TZ]

44. People who know Life Sciences know Chapel Hill too!

Outside of where I live, I know thats maybe the biggest biotech corridor on the East Coast.

[mnhtnbb]

50. True. Research Triangle: Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, but now Cary wants to be

the third point and push Chapel Hill out.

[brendan120678]

45. If you're from Connecticut you've heard of it.

Waterbury, CT.
If you're not, maybe you have and maybe you haven't.
It used to be a very well-known city, probably up until the '60s, but not anymore, from what I can tell.

[Captain Hilts]

92. Isn't there a 'Waterbury' mint just like the so-called 'Danbury' mint? I know I get junk mail -

from Waterbury from something.

Capt. Hilts, no matter where she is, is a Grubby Groton Girl.

[guitar man]

47. Tulsa

Everybody seems to know where it is :hi:

[Tobin S.]

48. Sure. Everyone knows where Miami Township, Ohio is. Right?

Hell, most people probably don't even know where Ohio is.

[TZ]

52. I know where that is!

For obvious reasons!;)

[av8rdave]

49. Dallas/Fort Worth. I doubt it.

[DFW]

53. Where the hell is THAT?

My house is near Preston and Mockingbird, but I'm never home anyway.

[av8rdave]

59. I used to almost be a neighbor...

I lived near Preston and Arapaho for a couple of years in the 90s, but live back in the mid cities now.

[baldguy]

51. No, but there's a major appliance brand with the same name - but no other connection.

So, everyone's "heard" of it without knowing it.

[TK421]

107. Maytag?

[baldguy]

110. Kenmore

NY

[DFW]

54. Unless you are an expert on medieval towns of Westfalia

You have definitely never heard of the town I'm in most of the year.

[TheMightyFavog]

57. People who drive to Northern Wisconsin might know it...

As you used to drive through it on hwy 141 before they made 141 4 lane a few years back.

As for the town a couple miles north of it, you might have heard of it. About 20 years ago, Slim-Fast used it for a big marketing campaign.

As for where I work, the only reason you might know of it would be if you are in the fire prevention (Ansul) or shipbuilding industries (Marinette Marine's a big Navy defense contractor, and our New Yorker DUers may have ridden one of the ships they built for the Staten Island Ferry a few years back), and it was the hometown of the guy whose capture helped publicize Iran-Contra. (Eugene Hasenfus)

[Crystal Clarity]

60. Hell No

Unless our saying: " Welcome to ___ , home of 881 people and one old grouch" rings a bell. ;-)

[Heidi]

61. It's a tiny (population less than 300) Italian-speaking village

five minutes by car from the Swiss-Italian border. Most Swiss and Italians can't find it for visits or deliveries, and I'd guess the only DAuers who've heard of it are those who've received mail from CMW or me.

[Jokerman]

62. What city hosts the Indianapolis 500?

I would say that most people have heard of the Indy 500 but the majority of them don't know that the IMS is located in the Town of Speedway, not Indianapolis.

[geardaddy]

63. Yes, but it is often mispronounced

as "Minneanapolis"

[TK421]

67. Bristol P.A...there was a song that made it famous

along with all the historical shit that went along with the town...settled before Philadelphia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qdHY5sy-Lw&feature=related

[Old Troop]

69. I doubt it. Leominster, MA -- hometown of Johnny Appleseed

[rurallib]

70. close to a town that all the world seems to know - Iowa City

the city that creative people broke their brains to name.

[melman]

71. Yes

I live in Boston.

[Lucian]

72. Nope.

[david13]

77. Los Angeles? dc

[Tuesday Afternoon]

78. Bumfuck, Egypt. Yes.

[Odin2005]

79. Moorhead, Minnesota, a "suburb"/twin city of Fargo, ND.

So i just say I'm from Fargo, because EVERYONE has heard of Fargo. :)

[abq e streeter]

100. us geezer rocker/Buddy Holly devotees know-the show they never made it to was at the Moorhead Armory

[Odin2005]

102. Ah, that's right!

[Rhythm]

113. I have a friend down here who's headed to grad school there!

So i had heard of it before now, but just barely...

:hi:

[donheld]

80. No, nobody has ever heard of Denver Colorado

:D:hide:

[bluesbassman]

81. Oh yeah, where I live most people have heard of it. They just don't talk about it.

Friggin gang o' prudes if you ask me. :evilgrin:

[tblue]

83. Even people who live within 10 miles have never heard of it.

There are no retail or business establishments in the whole town.

[csziggy]

84. They've heard of it but usually can't spell it

Tallahassee is like Mississippi - too many repeated letters so people get confused. At least I don't actually live in Miccousukee - not only is it hard to spell, it is hard to pronounce.

[Decoy of Fenris]

85. Can't vote, but "No." Canastota, NY.

We had the Olympic Flame at one point, but nope... Even the announcer mispronounced it; "Can-a-Soda".

[Captain Hilts]

94. I've been to the International Boxing Hall of Fame!!! And I heard a reference to Carmen Basillio

on the radio here in DC just last week!

Also, the Erie Canal Museum was closed that day.

[Decoy of Fenris]

103. Blast!

Our one claim to fame is evidently just that. Shame about the Canal Museum, though. It's a remarkable, if small, little bit of history, and I would suggest it to anyone passing through the area. Then again, last I heard, it was free... It's open again, during the week, 12PM to 3PM, if you ever find yourself there again.

[Captain Hilts]

104. The IBHOF was brand new and the guy that started it gave us a personal tour. He

was really nice and I'm glad he's successful. A real labor of love.

The friend I went with was elderly and both of us knew most of the names.

It used to be EVERYBODY knew who the heavyweight champ was.

The display of fist sizes was cool. Probably still is!

[Iggo]

86. Whittier? I doubt it.

That's why I usually say L.A. or "just outside of L.A."

[Captain Hilts]

95. You have TWO famous Whittier folks that made it big. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

96. Home of Tricky Dick.

And Whittier School of Law.

[bif]

88. Grosse Pointe MI?

[abq e streeter]

101. immortalized by my homie, John Cusack

[NV Whino]

106. Maybe

The general area, yes. The specific area, even people in the general area haven't heard of it.

[rainbow4321]

109. Nope..which is why Dallas suburb dwellers usually just say Dallas

I'm in Plano...one of the bigger Dallas suburbs but if you say Plano to anyone not familiar with the area, it's alot easier to just say "Dallas", otherwise you have to get into the whole "it's just north of Dallas" thing.

My own family can't keep track of where it is, whenever anything happens ANYWHERE in Texas, they are convinced it is right near where I live...

[Rhythm]

112. Not most people... but a lot. The university makes sure of that :-)

Anyone watching college football or basketball heard sports commentators talking about WVU's gorgeous hometown... Morgantown WV. We're not a big town by any stretch (just over 100k people in the county... including college students), but this is the home of the Mountaineers and the "flying WV", so some people have heard of us even if they don't think they have!

[Skip Intro]

114. No. In Summerville, just outside of Charleston, SC, but I generally say Chas., and I guess most have

heard of it...

[dropkickpa]

115. Yes, I'm in Pittsburgh, if you haven't heard if Pittsburgh...

...you should just go kill yourself now.