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

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

[CholeraJoe]

The main street in Helena, Montana is Last Chance Gulch.

[Michael.SF.]

you’d always wonder if it was because of “the number”.

I also had visions of neighborhood goth kids doing animal sacrifices on Halloween, or something along those lines.

[Michael.SF.]

Between Barstow and Las Vegas. Never did know how to pronounce it. Best I could do was:

ziz-icks

[Erasmus]

...followed by Betaretta and then Gammaretta.

Oh, wait. You did say she was illiterate. Never mind.

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[Erasmus]

Then there’s the area where Neal Boortz lived during his formative years: Thrall, Frame Switch, and Dime Bag.

[fanfan]

Canada ping.

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[Erasmus]

They got it changed to Pig Turd Avenue.

[fanfan]

I live across the street from Mrs. Kokk.

She’s got a big sign on the telephone pole in front of her house.
It says “The Kokks”.

[calex59]

Nope, they changed it to some clean sounding name but it will always be Pig Turd Alley to those of us who were alive then!:P

[Erasmus]

When I was a little kid I lived in a neighborhood where most of the streets began with “O.” Ozanam, Oliphant, Oriole, Osceola, Oneida, etc.

Forty years later, I ended up living on an “Oriole” in a different town in a different state.

[COBOL2Java]

Doesn't surprise me. Here in Northern Virginia, we have two towns whose names were changed by developers to make the real estate more marketable: the "new" names are: Sterling and Reston.

Sterling used to be called "Dranesville" (as in "I flushed my money down the Dranesville"). Reston used to be called Whiele (pronounced WHEEL-ee).

[Erasmus]

I see that verity deserves priority on this one.

GMTA.

[coydog]

WHAT? No mention of Newfoundland here? There are indeed such places:

* Jerry’s Nose
* Nick’s Nose Cove
* Come-by-Chance
* Blow-me-down
* Lushes Bight
* Bumble Bee Bight
* Ha Ha Bay
* Run-by-guess
* Bleak Joke Cove
* Calves Nose
* Nancy Oh
* Little Looping Harbour
* Snake’s Bight
* Joe Batt’s Arm
* Dildo
* Gripe Point
* Bad Bay
* Bleak Island
* Misery Point
* Famine Point
* Wild Bight
* Breakheart Point
* Famish Gut
* Savage Cove
* Dead Man’s Bay
* Confusion Bay
* Wreck Cove
* Bareneed
* Empty Basket

[Little Bill]

The Grand Tetons mean large prefrontal protuberances on women, Canadian French.

[null and void]

I would guess that Krum was named by Bulgarian immigrants who wanted to honor their great medieval ruler Krum (808-814), famed for his victories over the Byzantine Empire.

Nah, Vicktor Krum, and his performance in the Maze...

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

[Gone_Postal]

what about The Village of Intercourse, PA

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

[calex59]

Verity? You don’t believe me? I am hurt!

[The KG9 Kid]

Zye-Zicks.