My husband is an immigrant with a name that most americans have a hard time spelling/ pronouncing. (They expect it to be hard, but it isn't. It's spelled phonetically, but I digress.)

HE was never happier than when we lived on 18th Street. Nothing to spell! Nothing to mispronounce! Now we live in the tree-streets, and that's ok too. But I can imagine he would have been very resistent if the dream house was a few blocks down, on Quackenbos.

There's a Scroggins Road in Alexandria that always makes me laugh when I drive by. And thank the real estate gods I don't live there.

When we lived in Mich I fell in love with a house in "coonpath rd"... I just couldn't do that!

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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.

Check if there's a similar street name in your area. It's possible you can use Ashley if there's no other ashle_ streets in your zip code.

Not a bad idea at all!

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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.

Check if there's a similar street name in your area. It's possible you can use Ashley if there's no other ashle_ streets in your zip code.

Anonymous wrote:I avoided a house on Stirrup Cup lane becuse I didnt want to be forever reminded of OB/GYN appointments.

Ha!

Ugh. Hate when cities let developers name streets after their family members/favorite stripper.

I avoided a house on Stirrup Cup lane becuse I didnt want to be forever reminded of OB/GYN appointments.

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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.

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.

WASP lane, mclean va?

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

Get a PO box.

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.

I know this sounds petty, but it's part of your address and something you have to write and tell people over and over. Would this be a deal breaker for you? Am I being silly to even consider it? (The street name I hate is a common word but that's mispelled.)