What if you love a house but HATE the name of the street?

[Anonymous]

I have to admit, when I was looking at houses last year, I was afraid I'd want one with a bad street name. Luckily I got a great one!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is neurotic and funny. Are you Elaine?

I understand hating a street name, but I certainly would not let that affect my purchase decision.

We moved to Illinois for work. We found a lovely house that was located on George W. Bush Drive. We did not buy it. I got pissed off every time I saw the street name. I just couldn't do it.

Don't blame you one bit. Even if my dream house were for sale there for $1 and it came with the best neighbors in the world, I wouldn't live there.

[Anonymous]

NP here. It would be a deal-breaker for me, as I wouldn't be able to ignore it. There were lots of those kinds of things that popped up in our house search. I always visualized myself coming home to each house and if there was something that made me shudder or (in some truly egregious instances after months of searching and serious exhaustion) cry, it was off the table. For example, there was one house that had been built on a split lot and our address would have been 217A with 217 (or whatever) right next door. I envisioned decades of walking next door to get our mail sorted out and just couldn't hack it.

[Anonymous]

So what is the name of the street?? I am dying to know. FWIW I think there are worse names than AshLee. I grew up on a street with a completely inoffensive name but still had to spell it for everyone as there are two common spellings...not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:It would give me pause. How bad is it (without necessarily revealing the street name). Is it embarassing? near-Derogatory? personnally unappealing?

It's the equivalent of spelling Ashley AshLee. Just tacky in my opinion.

I have to admit this would give me pause too.

Oh my GOD you guys are seriously SCREWED UP!!! Do you have anything serious to worry about? what a bunch of entitled fucking losers....

Not the PP, but you are making me grateful that what I don't have to worry about is rage-stroking out over a post on an anonymous bulletin board. Yikes!

[Anonymous]

I have seen Butts and Butkus recently as street names.

[Anonymous]

Mulva Lane? What is it, OP?!?

Seriously, whether it would deter me really depends on the specific name. It would have to be pretty bad to keep me from a house I really liked a lot, especially if I had been looking for a while.

[Anonymous]

I once visited a friend who lived in an expensive community in Manila, Philippines. All the streets were vegetables, e.g. mushroom st, broccoli st. It was hilarious esp. because the houses were all stately mansions.

[Anonymous]

this is what we call a "first world problem" and you should build yourself a bridge so that you can then get over it.

[Anonymous]

The only street name that would freak me out is Elm Street. Or something like Poltergeist way or Blair Witch road. Yes, I'm juvenile.

[Anonymous]

Oh yes, definitely could be a dealbreaker for me. In Houston there is (or used to be) a pretty neat loft style apartment building downtown that I thought was terrific except that it was called the Hogg Palace. I mean, seriously, how do people even deal with that? I know the Hoggs are a well-known old Texas family, but still. Horrid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Nuthatch Dr, Fairfax Station

A nuthatch is a kind of a bird.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Well, thank you everyone! Your amazing examples have helped me to realize that the street name in question is not nearly as bad as it could be.

[Anonymous]

Korte court

[Anonymous]

What about flannel flower fairway? That's a mouthful.

Also my husband and I have seen a firth ave. when we say it, we have to then say the rest of our sentences with 's' as a 'th'. I live in 5 firth ave and our firth child is due in 5 weekths!