Poorly named streets create negative shift in market value, real estate expert finds

National Post [Canada] ^ | Friday, May 11, 2007 | CanWest News Service

[Balding_Eagle]

Add to that Martin Luther King Blvd.

[cgbg]

When we first moved into our rural town there was a road named Porcupine Hill not too far from our house.

It took exactly seven days before our chow chow was quilled by one of the beasties. :-(

[JeffAtlanta]

Two personal favorites of mine, here in northcentral Pennsylvania: “Horse Thief Run Road” and “Hardscrabble Road.”

We have a Hardscrabble Road here in the northern suburbs of Atlanta as well. It's kind of ironic as it is a very affluent area. Must have been named that during the depression.

[buccaneer81]

Two personal favorites of mine, here in northcentral Pennsylvania: “Horse Thief Run Road” and “Hardscrabble Road.”

Here in Columbus we have a main drag called Refugee Rd.

[Snickersnee]

One of my CT ARNG lieutenants (a Ranger, etc., etc.) got his mail at a PO Box. I had to go pick him up one night during an alert. “You won’t tell anyone I live on Fairy Lane, will you, Top?” Yer secret’s safe with me, Ell Tee. (Snicker!)

[Grizzled Bear]

That has GOT to be in Wales!

[carlo3b]

Won't find this name in a PC state like Vermont!!! CUT AND SHOOT, TEXAS

[Squawk 8888]

In the Chinese neighbourhoods around Toronto there are some amazing bargains are to be had on houses with numbers that the Chinese consider “unlucky”.

[Squawk 8888]

There’s a street not far from me in Etobicoke that always gives me the willies when I ride past it- Mosque Crescent.

[Cogadh na Sith]

I live down the road from ‘Gringo Gulch Road’

[R. Scott]

I found that out when I visited out there - but the translation was a bit more explicit. From the angle I had, they lived up to their name.

[ovrtaxt]

There’s a skanky little neighborhood down the road the locals refer to as ‘Turd Hill’. It’s been that way for at least sixty years around here...

[Verginius Rufus]

There is a Bumpass Hell Trail in Lassen National Park in California.

[calex59]

Maybe the area you refer to is known as "Turd Hill" but the road I am talking about, "Pig Turd Alley", was an official name, it was on the street sign. That is the way they named things in CA back in the gold rush days, before liberals and PC had even been thought of.

The new people moving here from Sacramento became so outraged about the sign they had it changed, took away a lot of the ambiance of the area!

[BluH2o]

Newtown CT. has a street/road called Poverty Hollow. We looked at a home there but at the time it was just a little beyond our price range ... with 20/20 hindsight we should have stretched and bought it ... great property.

[RobbyS]

There’s a Purgatory Road in the ill Country of Texas, between San Marcos and New Braunsfels.

[nkycincinnatikid]

Funny! I grew up in Boone County, Ky. My folks house was about five miles from Beaver Lick and Big Bone Lick. But the closest former “town”, a fork in the road actually, was Sugar Tit. Despite the Dog Patch/Hooterville nomenclature, Boone County is quite populous and wealthy.

[Tribune7]

ping

[Ukiapah Heep]

I always though (Jimmy) Carter Lane intersected Weesuck Ave.

[PJ-Comix]

George Carlin grew up in Morningside Heights section of NYC but all the kewl kids there said they were from White Harlem.