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.
How about Lover’s Lane, a major street in Visalia, Calif., or Memory Lane in Santa Ana, Calif.?
How about Lover’s Lane, a major street in Visalia, Calif., or Memory Lane in Santa Ana, Calif.?
And towns:
I intentionally avoided even looking at homes in Alpharetta (Georgia) - it sounds too much like what an illiterate would name her first female child...
Or Krum (Texas), which is no better than you’d think.
A lot of merchants in the Chinatown area of Los Angeles were upset when Sunset Blvd., which has a prestigeous name, became Avenida Cesar Chavez.
I did a lot of surveying for the Olney Oaks subdivision between where Morningwood crosses the gas lines all the way to the power lines.
In Olney Oaks there is a large two-story 1928 Sears-Roebuck catalog house that was owned by the Ickes during WWII. Rumor has it that a lot of presidents went there until Camp David was built.
And there are a lot of idiotic names in Montgomery County. But my favorites are names of our kids and grandkids. I always wonder if the signs would be missed if they disappear.
[Mr] T
Is that sign in San Francisco?
I live right next to Shafto Road.
I was wondering where this album title came from.
I don’t think that has happened in Chapel Hill, NC yet (we just renamed our Airport Road after MLK2).
An old Simpsons episode:
Chalmers: Laugh it up, you punks, ‘cause you and Jan Murray
here just cost our town the Olympics.
Bart: Hey, Chalmers, where are you from?
Chalmers: Well, I was born in Queens, went to Ball state, then
made the move to Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Uh, why
do you ask?
[Bart is about to say something when Skinner Quickly
puts his hand over his mouth]
Skinner: Uh, don’t worry, sir. I’ll teach these children
some respect for their town. I’m assigning each of
you 20 hours of Community Service.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to my vacation at lake Titicaca. [to Bart] Let’s see you make a joke out of that, Mr. Smart guy.
About 5 miles from my house is “Bugger Hollow Road” No matter which connotation you pick, pardon the pun, it isn’t pleasant.
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