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Title: Have you been to "Paradise", "Hell", or other similar-named places? :D
Post by: ZLoth on January 10, 2022, 03:54:33 PM
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.

Title: Re: Have you been to "Paradise", "Hell", or other similar-named places? :D
Post by: Pink Jazz on January 10, 2022, 03:57:18 PM
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.
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Post by: Max Rockatansky on January 10, 2022, 03:57:42 PM
Yes, Hell Township wasn't far from me in Michigan and I briefly lived in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
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Post by: abefroman329 on January 10, 2022, 04:00:59 PM
I've been to Intercourse, PA.
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Post by: GaryV on January 10, 2022, 04:01:40 PM
Both Paradise and Hell, both in Michigan.
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Post by: ZLoth on January 10, 2022, 04:10:46 PM
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!!!
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Post by: SkyPesos on January 10, 2022, 04:31:04 PM
How about Fucking, Austria before it got renamed?
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Post by: kkt on January 10, 2022, 04:31:48 PM
Paradise is a place in Mt. Rainier National Park that I've enjoyed many times.
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Post by: oscar on January 10, 2022, 04:46:50 PM
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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Post by: 7/8 on January 10, 2022, 06:45:01 PM
I've been to almost heaven, West Virginia :bigass:
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Post by: Hot Rod Hootenanny on January 10, 2022, 07:42:56 PM
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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Post by: 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 (https://www.ctvalleybrewing.com/beers/devils-hopyard/))
Hell Valley, Noboribetsu, Hokkaido
Angels Camp, CA (CA 4 super-2 bypass)
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Post by: Max Rockatansky on January 10, 2022, 08:03:37 PM
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 (https://www.ctvalleybrewing.com/beers/devils-hopyard/))
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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Post by: 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:
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Post by: GaryV on January 11, 2022, 11:34:59 AM
^ I don't know.  Is hell flat?
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Post by: hotdogPi on January 11, 2022, 11:38:34 AM
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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Post by: roadman65 on January 11, 2022, 11:39:39 AM
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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Post by: US 89 on January 11, 2022, 12:00:37 PM
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.
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Post by: Max Rockatansky on January 11, 2022, 12:59:11 PM
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?
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Post by: wanderer2575 on January 11, 2022, 01:14:30 PM
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:

(https://i.imgur.com/FdluKP2.jpg)
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Post by: 1995hoo on January 11, 2022, 01:41:46 PM
Quote from: SkyPesos on January 10, 2022, 04:31:04 PM
How about Fucking, Austria before it got renamed?

I was reading the latest issue of Stereophile while eating lunch and discovered Middelfart, Denmark (https://www.google.com/maps/@55.5083558,9.7474839,13.83z).
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Post by: Life in Paradise on January 11, 2022, 01:49:39 PM
I actually live in Paradise, hence my name.  No, quite literally I live in an unincorporated area called "Paradise".
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Post by: kkt on January 11, 2022, 02:06:54 PM
Quote from: GaryV on January 11, 2022, 11:34:59 AM
^ I don't know.  Is hell flat?


No, it's uphill.  Both ways.
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Post by: US 81 on January 11, 2022, 05:36:44 PM
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.
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Post by: hbelkins on January 11, 2022, 07:04:53 PM
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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Post by: SP Cook on January 12, 2022, 09:24:29 AM
I've been to Hell, which is a rock formation in the Cayman Islands, BWI.  Sort of an out-of-place area, not that big, of broken limestone rocks.  Tourist trap, with a gas station the "Hell Service Station"  selling various Hell themed stuff. 

BTW, they sell gasoline (petrol) in Imperial gallons, priced in Cayman Islands dollars.  The math is impossible.

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Post by: hotdogPi on January 12, 2022, 09:29:15 AM
Quote from: SP Cook on January 12, 2022, 09:24:29 AM
BTW, they sell gasoline (petrol) in Imperial gallons, priced in Cayman Islands dollars.  The math is impossible.

They cancel out pretty much exactly.
1 Imperial gallon = 1.20095042 US gallons
1 Cayman Islands dollar = 1.2 US dollars (currency is pegged)
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Post by: frankenroad on January 12, 2022, 03:08:16 PM
I've been to Paradise, MI several times.  I think I was in Paradise Valley, AZ once on a trip to Scottsdale.

I've also been through Blue Ball, OH many times.
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Post by: MATraveler128 on January 12, 2022, 03:10:18 PM
I have been to Intercourse, Pennsylvania.
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Post by: SkyPesos on January 12, 2022, 03:44:52 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on January 11, 2022, 01:41:46 PM
Quote from: SkyPesos on January 10, 2022, 04:31:04 PM
How about Fucking, Austria before it got renamed?

I was reading the latest issue of Stereophile while eating lunch and discovered Middelfart, Denmark (https://www.google.com/maps/@55.5083558,9.7474839,13.83z).
This reminded me of this sign I found a while ago:
(https://i.imgur.com/nhBE8G0.png)