Here are a few that I've encountered: Brookshire, Sheffield Heights, Fartscove, Copper Creek, Vinegaroon, Cypress Mill, Eagle Bluff, Poverty Point, Hunter's Point, Bluffhaven, Bonita Grove, and so on. Obviously, some are seemingly more distinguished than others. Would you really want to live in Fartscove or Poverty Point? Biologically-inclined people might know or discover that a vinegaroon is a nasty spider, lending an ick! association to the place! Hunter's Point might dissuade the animal rights people, and so on.
One property development near Birmingham was named Chateau Manor Estates, coupling no less than three commendatory names in one without including any fourth element that might detract from their splendor! Is that an example of the hat trick in naming something?
Anyway, here are some of the more successful ones in Raleigh: Oakwood, Stonehenge, Briefcreek, Five Points, and North Hills. You will look in vain for a real deal Sequoyah Redwood in Sequoyah Hills, though!
In Knoxville, there's Sequoyah Hills, Fourth and Gill, West Hills, Forest Heights, and Farragut. For some reason known only to them they named a neighborhood after a minor Civil War character.
In New Orleans, there's Lakeview, Metarie, Uptown, Carrollton, Gentilly, and Lake Terrace.
However, real estate people sometimes are an unimaginative lot, and they come up with examples like these. Perhaps they need some creative person's help, as Marianne Moore was supposed to have provided (and ignored) when it came to choose the name of what became known as the Edsel.
For some reason or other, developers feel that using a faux olde tyme spelling adds to the class of the setting:
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Or real estate developers can't spel gud!
Trailer parks are also neighborhoods that get pretentious names. Polynesian Village near St. Florian, for example.
I think Knoxville has some neat names for developments (hey, I have friends in Sequoyah Hills, fyi!).
Street names, however, are crazy. Our favorite is "Fragrant Cloud." What were they thinking?
There is a subdivision not far from my house called Peyton Place.
Everything is grist for your delightful mill
ALOHA from Honolulu,
ComfortSpiral
=^..^=
We are leaving the Heritage Hill Country subdivision to move into the Stone Ridge subdivision. What do you think?
Coral Bells? Oh, it's a plant.
I live in Southfork.
There is no Northfork.
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Can you believe an Ashley
Can you believe a neighborhood called Ashley Pines?
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"Fragrant Cloud" must be one of those streets in Fartscove.
having worked for a national homebuilder for many years, i often wondered who really came up with these marketing names... :)
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