Have you been to "Paradise", "Hell", or other similar-named places? :D

Started by ZLoth, January 10, 2022, 03:54:33 PM

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ZLoth

Have you been to "Hell"? I have. It's a geologic feature on Grand Cayman good for a twenty minute visit where you can also mail a postcard. One of these days, I'll drive up north to Michigan.

How about "Paradise"? Yes, it's a town in California that got wiped off the map in 2018. All the friends I knew up there survived.

I'm an Engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like "What is beauty?", because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems and call them "paychecks".


Pink Jazz

Technically much of the Las Vegas Strip is outside Las Vegas city limits, but in the unincorporated community of Paradise. The northern end is in the unincorporated community of Winchester.

Max Rockatansky

Yes, Hell Township wasn't far from me in Michigan and I briefly lived in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

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ZLoth

Quote from: Pink Jazz on January 10, 2022, 03:57:18 PMTechnically much of the Las Vegas Strip is outside Las Vegas city limits, but in the unincorporated community of Paradise. The northern end is in the unincorporated community of Winchester.
I forgot about that!!!
I'm an Engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like "What is beauty?", because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems and call them "paychecks".

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kkt

Paradise is a place in Mt. Rainier National Park that I've enjoyed many times.

oscar

Quote from: ZLoth on January 10, 2022, 03:54:33 PM
How about "Paradise"? Yes, it's a town in California that got wiped off the map in 2018. All the friends I knew up there survived.

I went there in 2017. Also to the Paradise in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and Paradise River in Labrador on a branch of the Trans-Labrador Highway.
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I have been to both the Michigan Paradise and the Pennsylvania Paradise. As for Ohio, I know where the Getaway is and where one can seek Aid (both in Lawrence County)
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Hell's Backbone, UT
Bumpass Hell, Lassen NP, CA
Devil's Hop Yard SP, CT (and yes, there's now an IPA with that name)
Hell Valley, Noboribetsu, Hokkaido
Angels Camp, CA (CA 4 super-2 bypass)
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Quote from: kurumi on January 10, 2022, 07:57:52 PM
Hell's Backbone, UT
Bumpass Hell, Lassen NP, CA
Devil's Hop Yard SP, CT (and yes, there's now an IPA with that name)
Hell Valley, Noboribetsu, Hokkaido
Angels Camp, CA (CA 4 super-2 bypass)

Hell's Backbone is a road sadly that doesn't get features as much as it deserves to be.

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Quote from: GaryV on January 11, 2022, 11:34:59 AM
^ I don't know.  Is hell flat?

If you've played Minecraft, hell (well, the game calls it the Nether) is much more mountainous.
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Hell for me is waking up every morning with loss of urgency and motivation to get you going. Then as it's time for work, and you suddenly remember the things you were supposed to do.

Than Paradise I been to in PA on US 30 near Lancaster. 
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I've been to Paradise, Utah (for the sole purpose of clinching SR 165). It is by all accounts a very typical Utah farm town.

Max Rockatansky

Quote from: JoePCool14 on January 11, 2022, 11:30:11 AM
Quote from: ZLoth on January 10, 2022, 03:54:33 PM
Have you been to "Hell"?

I live in Illinois, does that count?  :spin:

Does Hell have people laying on their car horn and complaining about apartment complex parking lot incursions on YouTube?

wanderer2575

Quote from: GaryV on January 10, 2022, 04:01:40 PM
Both Paradise and Hell, both in Michigan.

As have I.

This was (maybe still is) posted in the parking lot of a bar on County Road D-32 in Hell:



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Quote from: SkyPesos on January 10, 2022, 04:31:04 PM
How about Fucking, Austria before it got renamed?

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Life in Paradise

I actually live in Paradise, hence my name.  No, quite literally I live in an unincorporated area called "Paradise".

kkt


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Off the top of my head: Eden and Paradise (towns), and a geologic feature called Devil's Backbone, all in TX. There're probably a few more that would qualify but I've gotten old and cant remember as well as I used  to.

hbelkins

I've been near Paradise, Ky., the town made famous by John Prine. It's a small community that's the sight of a TVA power plant on the Green River.

I've also been by Hell For Certain, Ky., which is also known as Dryhill, which is located adjacent to the Hal Roger Parkway in Leslie County near the KY 257 overpass.


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