Hey, nicknames for areas of your city?

[HEyHEY]

In Vancouver there's East Van, North Van, South Van, West Van.... but there is no "Van"

Then there's the Downtown eastside (Hell, DTES, whichever you prefer)

Port Coquitlam = "Poco"
Port Moody = "Pomo" (HEyHEY's stomping grounds)
Whalley = Whalley world
Yaletown
Gastown
"Richmond = "Ditchmond"
"EB" - Ask YVR Girl
Surrey = slurry

Kitts = Kittsalaino (SPINC)

Commercial = COmmercial drive

Yours?

[GirlinContempt]

1. Transcona - Trashcona

Transcona - Hell
Transcona - Gateway to the trailerparks of 1981




I made that last one up :crazy:

[HEyHEY]

2. What is St Boniface? Does it have a nickname?

[GirlinContempt]

3. Saint B

Osborne Village is... the Village....

We arent too creative

[strategery blunder]

4. Chicago

Entire Chicago area (six counties, not including Indiana!), including suburbs/exurbs: Chicagoland

Within Chicago city limits:

Downtown=The Loop
Gold Coast/Magnificent Mile--Along Lake Michigan just north of the Loop, where rich people live in condos
Near North Side
North Side
South Side
West Side

There are so many suburbs that I don't have nicknames for all of them. Perhaps another Chicagoan with more patience will fill in the blanks I leave...

[leftofthedial]

5. Five Points

Hilltop
LoDo
Cherry Creek
Cherry Creek North
Capitol Hill

various suburbs and neighbothoods named after parks

[Seabiscuit]

6. "North Coast"

Del Mar area of San Diego, CA.

Prior to that it was "South Bay" - Hermosa Beach, CA (L.A. area)

[Seabiscuit]

8. A friend from L.A. calls Chula Vista "Chulajuana".

Close to Tijuana. Chula Vista in S.D. is mostly Mexican-American.

[LoZoccolo]

7. Wicker Park = Liquor Park

I can't think of any others off the top of my head, though. And really I've only heard my brother use Liquor Park.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. There are LOTS of nicknames for my little town by the sea!

On the beach it's the Sand section, and going inland away from the beach, we have the hill section, the tree section, North end, and east of Pacific Coast Hwy (the old boundary of Hwy 1, the King's Hwy, or El Camino Real back in the Spanish days) we have the dreaded Flat-lands, where no-one lives! We are so faaar from the beach that we hardly count...lol...Only the old-timers remember this name; and that's where me and my husband live! We love it here, in our little town...

[ForrestGump]

10. The Strip

:D