City Nickname(s) That Natives / Locals Despise Or Find Corny - Page 3

Steely Dan · #41 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 1:42 PM**

chicagoans have really taken to our city's most recent nickname: "The Miami of Canada"

it's funny because it's true.

tdawg · #42 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 1:45 PM**

Not exactly a nickname for NYC but a term for some of its residents: "Bridge & tunnel," referring to anyone who lives in New York City (or New Jersey) but outside of Manhattan. It used to be a very derogatory term but is less so now that parts of Brooklyn, Queens, and NJ are sought after places to live.

Jawnadelphia · #43 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 2:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by JAYNYC

Not sure where you're going with the "lol", but besides Atlanta, DC, Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, Houston and maybe a handful of others how Black is any U.S. city with >500K population really? Like what's your point?

Philadelphia is 43.4% black - 661,839 people (third most of any city in US behind NYC and Chicago, but NYC is only about 25% and Chicago 33% black).

Centropolis · #44 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 2:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

chicagoans have really taken to our city's most recent nickname: "The Miami of Canada"

it's funny because it's true.

i legit don’t get that...

pj3000 · #45 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 2:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by dave8721

Sportscasters and such referring to Miami as "South Beach".

That's majorly annoying to me. Really annoying.

Sportscasters were saying it before, but I think LeBron "taking his talents to South Beach" gave it momentum unfortunately.

DatFiyah · #46 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 2:30 PM**

Nawlins makes me irrationally angry.

pj3000 · #47 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 2:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by TallCoolOne

Philadelphia is 43.4% black - 661,839 people (third most of any city in US behind NYC and Chicago, but NYC is only about 25% and Chicago 33% black).

Cleveland is probably at least 50% Black I imagine.

pj3000 · #48 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 2:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by DatFiyah

Nawlins makes me irrationally angry.

Yeah. I lived there for a number of years and one time when I was back up north for a visit, an old high school friend asked where I was living now, and I told him New Orleans. To which he replied, "you mean Nawlins, right?".

I killed him right there.

Steely Dan · #49 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 2:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by TallCoolOne

Philadelphia is 43.4% black - 661,839 people (third most of any city in US behind NYC and Chicago, but NYC is only about 25% and Chicago 33% black).

chicago's MASSIVE amount of black flight have that percentage falling rapidly.

according to the most recent census estimates, chicago is now around 29% black, and for the 1st time ever blacks are now behind latinos (at 30%) as the 3rd largest racial/ethnic block in the city.

10023 · #50 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 2:52 PM**

^ another reason Chicago is the Miami of Canada?

(yes they’re Mexican not Cuban, but still, Spanish-speaking)

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Sac is the preferred nomenclature, I guess.

They might want to rethink that one.

Tupac said “Sac-Town”, which makes it cool.

Buckeye Native 001 · #51 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 3:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by ocman

“The OC” But it’s a good way to tell if the person is a twit whose geography comes from bad television.

I attended college in Orange County during the height of that show's popularity.

"OC" is (somewhat) acceptable. I worked at the Register when they uploaded the first version of the OC Varsity sports website.

"The OC" is (was?) a capital offense.

maru2501 · #52 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 3:14 PM**

"Chi-town" automatically shows you are not from here

"the chi" and "chi city" are ok via hip hop culture but wouldn't come up in general use

"windy city" generally not cringed at

"second city" generally only used to refer to the comedy group

"city that works" and "city of big shoulders" are literary and kind of dated

those are the main ones

IMO

skyscraperpage17 · #53 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 3:23 PM**

Back when I was in Detroit and Tom Joyner's radio show would still broadcast there, he would call the city "The Big Motor."

I thought (and still think) that's an awesome nickname.

Sun Belt · #54 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 3:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by DatFiyah

Nawlins makes me irrationally angry.

Why is that?

Because of the local accent, I've heard people from Louisiana call it something close to that. Your name is "DatFiyah" -- That Fire

The Saints - "Who dat? Who dat? Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?"

It's exaggerated, but to me New Orleans sounds like Noo'Olins or Nu'Olins not Nawlins.

Sun Belt · #55 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 3:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by 10023

They might want to rethink that one.

Tupac said “Sac-Town”, which makes it cool.

Sac is very common.

Q: Where are you from?
A: Sac.

Or sometimes you get a double answer:

A: NorCal, Sac.

Centropolis · #56 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 3:34 PM**

From Wikipedia: Gateway to the West,The Gateway City, Mound City, The Lou, Rome of the West, River City.

of those, "The Lou" i think of something like a coked up comedian calling st. louis. or anyone not from st. louis except nelly...

skyscraperpage17 · #57 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 3:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sun Belt

Why is that?

Because of the local accent, I've heard people from Louisiana call it something close to that. Your name is "DatFiyah" -- That Fire

The Saints - "Who dat? Who dat? Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?"

It's exaggerated, but to me New Orleans sounds like Noo'Olins or Nu'Olins not Nawlins.

Louisville is similar.

While most people think it's pronounced "Louie-ville" (as in King Louie Village), locals pronouce it as "Loo-vuhl" and will have a fit if you say it any other way.

skyscraperpage17 · #58 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 3:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Centropolis

From Wikipedia: Gateway to the West,The Gateway City, Mound City, The Lou, Rome of the West, River City.

of those, "The Lou" i think of something like a coked up comedian calling st. louis. or anyone not from st. louis except nelly...

Nelly definitely deserves 100% of the credit for making "The Lou" stick as a nickname.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/genius....ot-shit-lyrics

"I'm from the Lou', and I'm proud ..!"

JAYNYC · #59 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 4:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sun Belt

Sac is very common.

Q: Where are you from?
A: Sac.

Or sometimes you get a double answer:

A: NorCal, Sac.

Sac is very common, but I can completely understand why the previous poster said people might want to rethink that one.

JAYNYC · #60 Posted **Apr 12, 2018, 4:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Met any black people--well for most of my working life, in the East Bay, I worked with dozens of them. "The Bay" for people of every race in my aquaintance is, well, the Bay (the body of water) or sometimes short for "the Bay Area", but never meaning just the city of San Francisco. I can see "the Town" possibly referring to Oakland among Oaklanders when in Oakland, which is often called "Oaktown" around "the Bay", but if you referred to "the Town" talking to somebody in San Francisco they'd almost certainly ask you, "Which town?"

Curious, what's your ethnicity? I'm starting to think the unfamiliarity with some of these Bay Area nicknames is a cultural difference, because the majority of Black people I know (especially those who live in California) under the age of 45 commonly refer to the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose area as "The Bay" (NOT "The Bay Area").

For example, if two Blacks - one from Oakland, and one from, Inglewood, were having a conversation in San Diego, it would be common for it to go something like this:"I'm from L.A." "Oh word? That's what's up, I'm from The Bay".

Same applies to the common usage of "The Town", and, although to a lesser extent, "The Land" among Blacks (particularly in California).