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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My grandparents lived on Long Island for a while in the 30s and they were on Josef Goebbels Boulevard

Why was a street named after him?

Hitler’s close relatives lived on Long Island for decades.

“Close” is a stretch. Also, that story is irrelevant to the street name which well predates those distant relatives. Street was part of a camp and community founded by a pro Nazi group in the 30s.

I have a friend who lives on Wisteria Lane. We always have a good laugh when I visit her house.

Anonymous wrote:I assume you’re using a fake stand-in name here? “Tammy Jo Lane” would be a no from me. But I could live with Mary Jane or Suzie Q Lane.

Yes, stand in, but something very "soap opera-y" or like the name of a chainsmoking waitress in a midwest diner circa 1999

Anonymous wrote:No. But I understand. My last house was a nice round number and cute name, like "100 Maple Drive" and now I have a 5 digit number and a long word I need to spell slowly and repeat.

+1

I'll never understand why some of these dimwitted developers/builders named the streets after their wives or daughters. Some of those street names are offputine.

Earnestine Court, Mary Jo Terrace, that sort of thing. Granted not as bad as Anus Rd and Morning Wood, but I don't like that. Why not just go with something simple.

I do like the one development that has Holyrood Rd (Dr? Ct?), like the castle in Scotland. Although I imagine people mispronounce it all the time.

Redrum in Ashburn. Always cracks me up.

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Anonymous wrote:In Colonial Village there's a street called "Hemlock" and I always think that is a REALLY bad street to live on!

My parents live in a town where there is a “Broomrape Ct” (or maybe circle). I understand it’s a flower (or flowering bush?)indigenous to the west but it’s a tough, tough address. Thankfully, parents don’t live on that road.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Colonial Village there's a street called "Hemlock" and I always think that is a REALLY bad street to live on!

My parents live in a town where there is a “Broomrape Ct” (or maybe circle). I understand it’s a flower (or flowering bush?)indigenous to the west but it’s a tough, tough address. Thankfully, parents don’t live on that road.

Now "Flowering Bush Lane" would be an interesting address.

My aunt and uncle lived on Anus Road. They changed the name in 2008 when that section of the county joined the town.

If it was a really terrible name, yes. Unless it was a ridiculously great deal… unheard of, and impossible to find anywhere else.

DW refused to even look at a house on MorningWood Dr in Olney.

And she was right. It would have been nothing but bad jokes for years

Anonymous wrote:In Colonial Village there's a street called "Hemlock" and I always think that is a REALLY bad street to live on!

My parents live in a town where there is a “Broomrape Ct” (or maybe circle). I understand it’s a flower (or flowering bush?)indigenous to the west but it’s a tough, tough address. Thankfully, parents don’t live on that road.

I was processing something for someone at work and their address was something very close to 69 Soiled Britches Lane. I changed a word so I'm not giving out their literal address.

Like...that's where they had their W-2 going. It was a real place. Nope. Couldn't live there.

Columbia, Md. pretty famously has quirky street names drawn from literature -- https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/columbia-maryland-street-names

Think "August Light Ct." -- named for William Faulkner's novel "Light in August". (And the street happens to be in the neighborhood of Faulkner Ridge.)

Another example is a street named "The Mending Wall", after Robert Frost's poem of the same name.

And then there is the street named "Barefoot Boy" after a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier.

Makes for a memorable address, at least.

My best friend lives on Memory Lane and she loved that about her house.

We looked at one house on No-Wa-Ta and that still makes me laugh that we'd be forever parched.