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(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Posted on 05/11/2007 7:01:48 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
Residents of Canada's Dingle Bingle Hill Terrace, Cheapside Street, Ragged Ass Road and Bastard Ward consider yourselves warned: There is a small but noteworthy negative effect between a badly named street and the perceived market value of homes or businesses that reside on it, experts say. "People attach values [to addresses] and pay a premium," said Murtaza Haider, a business professor and director of Ryerson University's Institute of Housing and Mobility. Mr. Haider recently analyzed the property values of 300 homes near Toronto's posh Bloor Street. Controlling for size, he found that having Bloor in the physical address added a statistically significant premium to a property's market worth.
Not a street but a town called—WEED, CALIFORNIA.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Upgrade that to "Porcine Defication Boulevard" and you've improved everyone's property value tenfold!
Actually, there's a legitimate reason for that. A spur line off what used to be the Pennsylvania Railroad runs from there into Princeton, itself. A shuttle train called "The Dinky" still operates on that route.
That's "Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, Jr." to you, bud.
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Not, “The Most Reverend, Holiness, Black-Beyond-Belief Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard, Jr?”
It could be worse. I grew up in a small berg in Central New York. Off of the main road were about a dozen numbered Avenues. They were numbered not in physical order but in the order that they were created. (i.e., 5th Ave between 1st and 2nd, etc.). The locals have no problem with this but outsiders are frustrated to no end.
Hey. I’ve seen that road too. ;)
Actually,after I posted this I learned that they had changed the name back to Pig Turd Alley. It now appears on the rolls and in ads in the paper. People wanted the historical name and they got it. This is a slap in the face of PC!:)
I grew up on Ping Tard Avenue
I find 3 ‘Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, Jr’ in the United States.
There are over 300 ‘Martin Luther King Blvd’ in the United States. The few of which I been on are in the slum part of towns.
Hey! I’ve been there! Climax, GA, that is. ;o)
There’s a Purgatory Rd. crossing Rt. 146 in MA. You take it to get to Purgatory Chasm.
Lovers Lane is a major thorofare in Dallas, TX. But it doesn't go to Love Field.
Instead, it's a mile north of the quaintly-named Mockingbird Lane -- another major thorofare.
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