From the "Chicagoland Control Cities" thread.
Quote from: mukade on January 31, 2013, 08:55:12 PM
Assuming all control cities should be in another metro area (unlike Aurora which is in Chicagoland),
I always found the term "Chicagoland" to be a bit unusual as a description of the metropolitan area.
The Cincinnati area is called "Greater Cincinnati."
Any other unusual monikers for big cities and their adjacent suburbs?
The LA area is sometimes called the Southland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles_Area (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles_Area)
South Bend/Elkhart/Niles area is Michiana: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiana)
Kentuckiana is used around Louisville and Evansville.
The Milwaukee, WI metro area is often called 'Milwaukeeland'.
Also, the immediate Appleton, WI area (Kaukauna through Neenah plus a few contiguous developed suburban areas on either side) are the 'Fox Cities' while urbanized areas along the US(I)-41 corridor from Oshkosh through Green Bay are collectively the 'Fox Valley'.
Mike
This may be more regional than strictly metropolitan, but I am amused by "the Ark-La-Tex" and "Ark-La-Tex-oma" for the Shreveport - Texarkana area.
In North Carolina:
Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill are collectively "the Triangle." (Research Triangle Park is a particular area within the Triangle to the southeast of Durham.)
About an hour to the west of there you find Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point, which are collectively "the Triad" (sometimes "the Piedmont Triad").
The Quad Cities of Davenport ,Bettendorf,Moline,East Moline and Rock Island.......
Formerlly the Tri-Cities which is what Pasco,Kennewick and Richland WA are called
Peoria calls it self the River City and Bloomington -Normal calls itself the twin cities which I think someplace in MN is also known
Chicagoland reflects its strangely insular nature while at the same time being at the core of the Midwest.
Within the greater Chicagoland area is Northwest Indiana which is known as the Calumet Region or simply "da region".
On the INDOT city maps, the Indiana suburbs of Louisville are called the Falls City area.
There's the obvious Bay Area up here in Northern California.
The Phoenix area is known as the Valley of the Sun.
Then there's also the Brazosport and the DFW Metroplex in Texas.
This is the Tri-State Area, not the New York Metro.
Quote from: mukade on January 31, 2013, 10:26:41 PM
Within the greater Chicagoland area is Northwest Indiana which is known as the Calumet Region or simply "da region".
There are lots of different parts to Chicagoland:
NW Indiana (aka Calumet Region)
Southland (everything south of 87th Street (Will/DuPage County line) and west of the state line)
North Shore (the coastline north of Chicago including Winnetka, Evanston, and Highland Park)
NW Cook (the part of Cook County north of DuPage County)
Joliet/North Will County (includes Bolingbrook, Romeoville, and Plainfield)
South Cook (south Cook County suburbs, south of Chicago)
Fox Valley (Elgin, St Charles, Geneva, Batavia, and Aurora)
Chain of Lakes (Lake/McHenry border area along the Fox River)
There's no real name for greater Hartford. I've heard the city itself be called The HART-beat a few times, but that's it.
Here's a couple that come to mind:
Memphis, TN = the Mid South
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX = DFW Metroplex (or the Metroplex for short)
West Virginia, of course, has no metro areas, but varrious names for collective regions have developed:
The most problematical one is Huntington and Charleston as a group. Huntington, WV, Ashland, KY, and Ironton, OH, as a group are generally "The Tri-State", which is also used for Cincinnati and can thus be confusing. Something therefore "The River Cites" is used. Charleston is "The Kanawha Valley", but the two together have never been a good name. Ohio and Kentucky object to "Charleston-Huntington" and anything longer is too long. Marshall University's research corporation used to be called "The Advantage Valley" and they encouraged that for a while, but, since the area isn't a valley, and has no particualar advantages, this fell out of favor. "I-64 Corridor" is more often heard as anything now.
The Parkersburg area, including Marietta, OH, uses "The Mid-Ohio Valley", which is only correct if you look at the Ohio in WV terms. In Ohio terms the "mid" point would be Ironton, and in the whole river, its Louisville.
The Bluefield area has uses "The Bluefields", "The Two Virginias" or "Four Seasons Country". Beckley area uses "The Plateau". Fairmont - Clarksburg - Morgantown (generally always in that order, which isn't geographically nor populationally in order, Fairmont belonging in the middle either way) has made plays off "Research" or "Technology" to try to emulate NC's success, but no one has bought it. "F-C-M" or "The Monongalia Valley" have been used, although the latter is confusing since the area below Pittsburgh, just to the north, uses it more for that area.
Arcata-Alanland: The Goat Meadow
Albany, New York: primarily "The Capital District" or the more recent variation "The Capital Region", and sometimes the "Tri-Cities" (with Schenectady and Troy).
Bournemouth-Poole-Christchurch (sometimes, erroniously called the South East Dorset conurbation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_East_Dorset_conurbation)) is looking for a better name with an official campaign to unite the conurbation (long youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WZx4Y4pSEY)). Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton) isn't looking for a better name, but ought to have one.
The towns of Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton form the city of Stoke-on-Trent (Hanley being considered the city centre). Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme (which was blocked from becoming part of the city due to being a lot bigger than the other towns) together form "The Potteries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Potteries_Urban_Area)", which is the best name for a conurbation I've heard, though I quite like the <river>side names like Tyneside, Teesside, Wearside.
Riverside and its surrounding municipalities are known as the Inland Empire.
the suburban area west of Burbank is known as the San Fernando Valley, or just "the Valley".
east of downtown San Diego is known as "east county", and north of San Diego is "north county", but these also encompass rural areas.
between San Jose and San Diego on 101 is Silicon Valley, and the corresponding region near Boston is called Route 128 (not I-95!).
Quote from: hbelkins on January 31, 2013, 09:35:26 PM
I always found the term "Chicagoland" to be a bit unusual as a description of the metropolitan area.
The Cincinnati area is called "Greater Cincinnati."
Any other unusual monikers for big cities and their adjacent suburbs?
I grew up in "Greater Rochester" and understood it to be a generic way of referring to a city and its suburbs together, so I was going to ask what you found so unusual about "Greater Cincinnati". But now I'm wondering how many other cities I've actually ever seen the term used?
Quote from: NE2 on February 01, 2013, 07:25:21 AM
Arcata-Alanland: The Goat Meadow
Only adjacent to the Perkins Union, and then only when the Perkins Union isn't in Alanland, and then only in leap years.
Quote from: empirestate on February 01, 2013, 09:46:23 AM
Quote from: hbelkins on January 31, 2013, 09:35:26 PM
I always found the term "Chicagoland" to be a bit unusual as a description of the metropolitan area.
The Cincinnati area is called "Greater Cincinnati."
Any other unusual monikers for big cities and their adjacent suburbs?
I grew up in "Greater Rochester" and understood it to be a generic way of referring to a city and its suburbs together, so I was going to ask what you found so unusual about "Greater Cincinnati". But now I'm wondering how many other cities I've actually ever seen the term used?
The term "Greater New York" was commonly used in the 1890s in conjunction with that city's consolidation when Brooklyn became part of New York City.
I've heard the term used many times as to other cities in the manner you describe–not as any sort of "official" name, just as a convenient term that's shorter than "[city name] metropolitan area," especially when the metropolitan area might span multiple states or include other cities of a decent size.
Returning to the original topic, the urban areas of far southeastern Virginia are variously referred to as "Hampton Roads" (after the body of water that dominates the geography down there) or "Tidewater" (though traditionally in Virginia history that term had a broader meaning). Given that the area includes Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Hampton, and Newport News, a shorter name for the entire area clearly makes sense, although there's some disagreement down there over which short name is more appropriate. Some people find the nautical term "roads" confusing, too.
Quote from: 3467 on January 31, 2013, 10:07:37 PMBloomington -Normal calls itself the twin cities which I think someplace in MN is also known
Minneapolis-St. Paul, if I read it correctly.
Quote from: empirestate on February 01, 2013, 09:46:23 AM
Quote from: hbelkins on January 31, 2013, 09:35:26 PM
I always found the term "Chicagoland" to be a bit unusual as a description of the metropolitan area.
The Cincinnati area is called "Greater Cincinnati."
Any other unusual monikers for big cities and their adjacent suburbs?
I grew up in "Greater Rochester" and understood it to be a generic way of referring to a city and its suburbs together, so I was going to ask what you found so unusual about "Greater Cincinnati". But now I'm wondering how many other cities I've actually ever seen the term used?
Nothing unusual about "Greater Cincinnati." I thought "xx-land" was unusual, and Greater Cincinnati was the first other metro area name that came to mind.
Quote from: empirestate on February 01, 2013, 09:46:23 AM
I grew up in "Greater Rochester" and understood it to be a generic way of referring to a city and its suburbs together, so I was going to ask what you found so unusual about "Greater Cincinnati". But now I'm wondering how many other cities I've actually ever seen the term used?
I grew up in the Detroit suburbs and often heard the term "Metro Detroit" used. Now I live in Grand Rapids and have often heard "Greater Grand Rapids", but I usually just say "the Grand Rapids area". I used to live in a suburb but now live in the city proper.
Speaking of Cincinnati, the Kentucky portion of the metro area is typically refered to as Northern Kentucky, at least in the metropolitan scene. Geographically it probably includes the next couple or so tiers of counties to the south, but the top three are the main ones (Boone, Campbell and Kenton.)
I read further up Kentuckiana being refered to as both Louisville and Evansville areas. While I've definently heard the term for the Louisville area, I don't remember hearing it for Evansville. There, I've always heard "Tri-State area" with a nod given to Illinois as well as Indiana and Kentucky.
Also from Indiana: Wabash Valley to refer to the Terre Haute area, though that's regions boundaries probably extend beyond the Terre Haute metropolitan area. And while in Muncie, I heard East-Central Indiana a lot, but again that was beyond the Muncie area and included the counties around Delaware.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on February 01, 2013, 09:20:46 AM
Riverside and its surrounding municipalities are known as the Inland Empire.
the suburban area west of Burbank is known as the San Fernando Valley, or just "the Valley".
I have Frank Zappa to thank for my knowledge of those two terms.
Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties are lumped in different ways. The Florida Gold Coast, the Florida Platinum Coast, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Greater Fort Lauderdale, the western suburbs (Broward County) or "out West," and the Palm Beaches.
Quote from: tdindy88 on February 01, 2013, 01:15:54 PM
Speaking of Cincinnati, the Kentucky portion of the metro area is typically refered to as Northern Kentucky, at least in the metropolitan scene. Geographically it probably includes the next couple or so tiers of counties to the south, but the top three are the main ones (Boone, Campbell and Kenton.)
I suppose that would be akin to NoVa (Northern Virginia) to refer to that part of the state which is suburban to Washington, but not actually including Washington or the Maryland portion of its metro.
NOLA for New Orleans
Pocatello ID is known simply as Pokey
Albuquerque is known as the Duke City (for the Duke of Albuquerque in Spain)
Flagstaff is shortened to Flag
Santa Fe is called the City Different
Truth or Consequences,NM is too long and is refered to as T or C
Phoenix is also called the Valley of the Sun, while Mesa is the East Valley
Quote from: xcellntbuy on February 01, 2013, 04:36:26 PM
Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties are lumped in different ways. The Florida Gold Coast, the Florida Platinum Coast, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Greater Fort Lauderdale, the western suburbs (Broward County) or "out West," and the Palm Beaches.
Florida also has the "First Coast"(Jacksonville area), the "Space Coast"(Brevard County) and the "Treasure Coast"(Indian River, Martin and St. Lucie counties)
Maybe only a metropolitan area during the beach season I must mention home -->The Emerald Coast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Coast in Florida consists of Escambia county (Pensacola area), Santa Rosa county (Navarre area), Okaloosa county (Fort Walton Beach), Walton county :hmmm: (Seaside area) and Bay county (Panama City area) gulf coasts.
In the trucker vernacular se Florida is known as "the bottom", how appropriate is that?
I've heard the Sioux Falls area refered to as the Sioux Empire, while the Sioux City area is called Siouxland.
I have heard the Grand Island/Hastings/Kearney area in Nebraska refered to as the Tri-Cities, but I personally think that is solely based on the fact the hockey team which plays in Kearney is called the Tri-City Storm.
Quote from: sandiaman on February 01, 2013, 09:34:17 PM
Pocatello ID is known simply as Pokey
Albuquerque is known as the Duke City (for the Duke of Albuquerque in Spain)
Flagstaff is shortened to Flag
Santa Fe is called the City Different
Truth or Consequences,NM is too long and is refered to as T or C
Phoenix is also called the Valley of the Sun, while Mesa is the East Valley
You must come from "Space" City. :)
Quote from: allniter89 on February 02, 2013, 01:00:14 AM
Maybe only a metropolitan area during the beach season I must mention home -->The Emerald Coast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Coast in Florida consists of Escambia county (Pensacola area), Santa Rosa county (Navarre area), Okaloosa county (Fort Walton Beach), Walton county :hmmm: (Seaside area) and Bay county (Panama City area) gulf coasts.
That's not the term I first heard for it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Riviera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Riviera)
When I visited the region, I do remember agreeing that it looked as though someone had taken a Bedazzler™ to the panhandle swamps.
Philadelphia area as the Delaware Valley
Quote from: DandyDan on February 02, 2013, 04:19:11 AM
I've heard the Sioux Falls area refered to as the Sioux Empire, while the Sioux City area is called Siouxland.
I have heard the Grand Island/Hastings/Kearney area in Nebraska refered to as the Tri-Cities, but I personally think that is solely based on the fact the hockey team which plays in Kearney is called the Tri-City Storm.
They are also sometimes referred to as the Tri-Cities in local weather reports. Of course, they are too far apart to really be Tri-Cities in the same sense as Richland-Kennewick-Pasco, WA are.
Saginaw-Bay City-Midland is referred to as the Tri-Cities.
Tri-Cities is also used for Petersburg-Hopewell-Colonial Heights, VA and Bristol-Kingsport-Johnson City TN.
I have heard the Tampa- St. Petersburg area in Florida known as the "Bay Area" just like in San Fransisco.
In Orlando it is Central Florida.
The Fort Myers, Cape Coral, and Naples area is South-West Florida hence the name of Fort Myers own airport.
"Mid South" is not just the Memphis metro, it is a region composed of several states.
Quote from: empirestate on February 02, 2013, 10:46:30 AM
Quote from: allniter89 on February 02, 2013, 01:00:14 AM
Maybe only a metropolitan area during the beach season I must mention home -->The Emerald Coast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Coast in Florida consists of Escambia county (Pensacola area), Santa Rosa county (Navarre area), Okaloosa county (Fort Walton Beach), Walton county :hmmm: (Seaside area) and Bay county (Panama City area) gulf coasts.
That's not the term I first heard for it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Riviera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Riviera)
When I visited the region, I do remember agreeing that it looked as though someone had taken a Bedazzler™ to the panhandle swamps.
Swamps???? No no no my friend, you missed the true beauty of the area. Along US 98 you can see our sugar white sand & and the emerald colored water of the Gulf of Mexico. :nod:
I have very seldom heard anyone use the Redneck Riviera monicker, I dont consider it very flattering although most of our summer visitors are rednecks :sombrero:. I hear Emerald Coast or the panhandle used the majority of the time. :wave:
The Hampton Roads area (which started being used around 1990 for the area instead of Tidewater) also is broken down into 2 sub-regions. Norfolk, Va. Beach, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Suffolk are referred to as "the Southside", and Newport News, Hampton, and Poquoson are referred to as "the Peninsula."
Syracuse and the surrounding area has been called Central New York on newscasts from at least the 1960's.
Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton are usually referred to as "Lehigh Valley."
Quote from: allniter89 on February 03, 2013, 01:05:54 AM
Quote from: empirestate on February 02, 2013, 10:46:30 AM
Swamps????
Yep: http://tinyurl.com/aynqy68
Quote from: allniter89 on February 03, 2013, 01:05:54 AM
No no no my friend, you missed the true beauty of the area. Along US 98 you can see our sugar white sand & and the emerald colored water of the Gulf of Mexico. :nod:
If I missed those things, how could I be aware that the swamps had been Bedazzled™?
Quote from: allniter89 on February 03, 2013, 01:05:54 AM
I have very seldom heard anyone use the Redneck Riviera monicker, I dont consider it very flattering although most of our summer visitors are rednecks :sombrero:. I hear Emerald Coast or the panhandle used the majority of the time. :wave:
Those I heard it from were self-applying the term, but that doesn't make it any more flattering. I didn't spend nearly enough time there to gather what the common local term would be. But I did get a bit of a sense of pride that there was a beach region catering more to actual Southerners than to transplanted northerners, as found elsewhere in the state.
Quote from: US81 on January 31, 2013, 10:01:00 PM
This may be more regional than strictly metropolitan, but I am amused by "the Ark-La-Tex" and "Ark-La-Tex-oma" for the Shreveport - Texarkana area.
And when I moved to monroe, la for college that part of the state refers to itself as ark-la-miss. NotrNot really a metro area though. Monroe and vicksburg are miles apart.
Quote from: amroad17 on February 03, 2013, 05:21:42 AM
The Hampton Roads area (which started being used around 1990 for the area instead of Tidewater)...
I've heard "Tidewater" used to describe the whole region, as far west as Emporia.
Oklahoma City and surrounding areas is generally referred to in the media as "the metro". People from "the metro" who are not from Oklahoma City call it "the city", as in someone from Norman saying "would you like to have lunch up in the city tomorrow?"
"Big Smoke" = London.
Phoenix is often referred to as "The Valley"
It's not unusual to hear the Tucson area referred to as "The Old Pueblo"
Back in 1988, I heard a classic rock station broadcasting in Southern California refer to their broadcast area as "the Empire." I do not know which region in the vastly populated area around LA- San Bernardino- San Diego is called that, but I found it interesting.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on February 01, 2013, 09:20:46 AM
between San Jose and San Diego on 101 is Silicon Valley, and the corresponding region near Boston is called Route 128 (not I-95!).
I assume you meant San Francisco instead of San Diego. Silicon Valley corresponds to Santa Clara Valley, and specifically the corridor from San Jose to Palo Alto, although some cities in San Mateo and Alameda Counties are included in a looser definition.
Like someone mentioned about Oklahoma City, people in the Bay Area refer to San Francisco proper as "The City."
Quote from: roadman65 on February 04, 2013, 12:28:22 AM
Back in 1988, I heard a classic rock station broadcasting in Southern California refer to their broadcast area as "the Empire." I do not know which region in the vastly populated area around LA- San Bernardino- San Diego is called that, but I found it interesting.
As mentioned above, the "Inland Empire" refers to the Riverside-San Bernardino area.
Quote from: DTComposer on February 04, 2013, 12:51:24 AM
Like someone mentioned about Oklahoma City, people in the Bay Area refer to San Francisco proper as "The City."
Even in Rochester, NY, "the city" is used to refer to, well, the city, as opposed to one of the surrounding suburban towns or villages. Of course, "the city" is also used by NYC folks to refer to
that city, sometimes to distinguish it from its suburbs (or even to refer to Manhattan as opposed to other boroughs), but quite often it's not in distinction from any other place; it's merely a short term for NYC.
Naturally, when folks from NYC come upstate to Rochester, some confusion can often arise. You ask where they live, they say "the city", and you start naming neighborhoods in the city of Rochester, drawing a blank stare from the downstater.
For the Rockford, IL & Beloit, WI urban areas, the term 'Stateline' is often used. Rockford has a few nicknames, mostly notably the 'Forest City.' Other Rockford nicknames, endearing as they are, include the 'Screw City' and RockVegas.
Mexico City is referred to as 'La Ciudad', but I don't have a feel for how far away from the city that moniker is well known.
Quote from: DTComposer on February 04, 2013, 12:51:24 AM
Like someone mentioned about Oklahoma City, people in the Bay Area refer to San Francisco proper as "The City."
In Minnesota, people who don't live in the Twin Cities area such as much of my mom's half of the family tree often refer to the Twin Cities as "The Cities".
Quote from: DandyDan on February 05, 2013, 06:54:48 AM
In Minnesota, people who don't live in the Twin Cities area such as much of my mom's half of the family tree often refer to the Twin Cities as "The Cities".
Well, I do live in the Twin Cities and refer to them as "The Cities". This is generally in response to a question of "where are you from?" from someone outside "the Cities", but who lives close enough to know what that means.
Local broadcasters tend to use the terms "Twin Cities" and "Metro area" with about equal frequency.
On an unrelated note, Duluth and Superior comprise the "Twin Ports".
A couple of interesting ones for larger metropolitan regions in the west:
The Wasatch Front: generally the area from Provo's southernmost suburbs all the way north to Brigham City (occasionally extended to Logan) and encompassing Provo/Orem, Salt Lake City and Ogden. This is the bulk of Utah's population, all grouped into a roughly 120 mile by 20 mile area.
Each individual sub-section of that conglomeration has it's own nickname: the Logan area is in the Cache Valley; there's Ogden/Weber County, Davis County, the Salt Lake Valley and Utah Valley (anchored by Provo).
The Front Range: Mainly used to describe the area including the Denver metropolitan area, Boulder/Longmont, Loveland/Ft. Collins/Greeley, etc. Colorado Springs metro is a southern extension to this moniker. It's yet another population center that covers a large geographic area, but yet is interconnected as one larger metropolis (more or less - the Springs being less).
The Western Slope: That would be the Grand Junction, CO area, extending to (and including) Delta, Montrose and Rifle.
The Magic Valley: Twin Falls/Jerome, ID and general vicinity.
Treasure Valley: Boise/Nampa/Caldwell, ID metro area.
From New England:
The Springfield, MA area has also long been referred to as the Pioneer Valley. Though I have heard this used less in my more recent visits to that area.
The Manchester/Concord/Nashua, NH area is often called the Merrimack Valley by Granite Staters, but ask a *Masshole* and they'll say it's the Lowell/Lawrence/Haverhill, MA area. Both are right, by the way - but they're not the same metro area.
Quote from: hbelkins on February 03, 2013, 01:46:08 PM
Quote from: amroad17 on February 03, 2013, 05:21:42 AM
The Hampton Roads area (which started being used around 1990 for the area instead of Tidewater)...
I've heard "Tidewater" used to describe the whole region, as far west as Emporia.
That is true. The "Tidewater" region extended to I-95 in southern VA, east of Richmond (near Providence Forge), and up to the Rappahannock River. The area north of the Rappahannock is usually called the Northern Neck.
Quote from: kendancy66 on February 01, 2013, 09:20:56 PM
NOLA for New Orleans
This actually varies by location.
On the Southshore, it's just called "the city."
On the Northshore, it's called "Across the Lake" or "the city."
Quote from: Darkchylde on February 06, 2013, 07:58:32 PM
Quote from: kendancy66 on February 01, 2013, 09:20:56 PM
NOLA for New Orleans
This actually varies by location.
On the Southshore, it's just called "the city."
On the Northshore, it's called "Across the Lake" or "the city."
Is NOLA is used more when writing addresses, rather than in conversation?
Quote from: kendancy66 on February 07, 2013, 12:17:20 AM
Quote from: Darkchylde on February 06, 2013, 07:58:32 PM
Quote from: kendancy66 on February 01, 2013, 09:20:56 PM
NOLA for New Orleans
This actually varies by location.
On the Southshore, it's just called "the city."
On the Northshore, it's called "Across the Lake" or "the city."
Is NOLA is used more when writing addresses, rather than in conversation?
Slightly off topic, but - directions in NOLA - riverside or lakeside rather than south or north - cool!
Quote from: mgk920 on January 31, 2013, 09:55:29 PM
The Milwaukee, WI metro area is often called 'Milwaukeeland'.
I have yet to hear anyone call it that and, as I write this, I'm sitting downtown. Perhaps some have used that descriptor (i.e. I'm not calling you a liar or anything), but I tend to doubt that it's commonly used.
The one that I hear most often to describe the "Milwaukee area" in generic terms is "Southeast Wisconsin". That takes in Kenosha, Racine and everything else in the Milwaukee media market.
Quote from: mukade on January 31, 2013, 10:26:41 PM
On the INDOT city maps, the Indiana suburbs of Louisville are called the Falls City area.
I've lived in Jeffersonville for 7 years now and have never once heard anybody use the term "Falls City". The entire metro area is referred to as singularly as "Kentuckiana" or dually as Greater Louisville and Southern Indiana.
Also, the same INDOT city inset that uses the term "Falls City" also still contains IN 131, which has not existed for 10 years, and is missing Veterans Parkway, a major thoroughfare that has been built within the last 10 years. I'm guessing nobody at INDOT has bothered to update that city inset in a very long time.
When I hear "Falls City," I think of cheap beer.
Quote from: allniter89 on February 02, 2013, 01:00:14 AM
Maybe only a metropolitan area during the beach season I must mention home -->The Emerald Coast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Coast in Florida consists of Escambia county (Pensacola area), Santa Rosa county (Navarre area), Okaloosa county (Fort Walton Beach), Walton county :hmmm: (Seaside area) and Bay county (Panama City area) gulf coasts.
In the trucker vernacular se Florida is known as "the bottom", how appropriate is that?
Hmmm, looking at the "shape" of Florida, it looks much more like male anatomy than the bottom :colorful:
Quote from: empirestate on February 04, 2013, 02:18:39 AM
Quote from: DTComposer on February 04, 2013, 12:51:24 AM
Like someone mentioned about Oklahoma City, people in the Bay Area refer to San Francisco proper as "The City."
Even in Rochester, NY, "the city" is used to refer to, well, the city, as opposed to one of the surrounding suburban towns or villages. Of course, "the city" is also used by NYC folks to refer to that city, sometimes to distinguish it from its suburbs (or even to refer to Manhattan as opposed to other boroughs), but quite often it's not in distinction from any other place; it's merely a short term for NYC.
Naturally, when folks from NYC come upstate to Rochester, some confusion can often arise. You ask where they live, they say "the city", and you start naming neighborhoods in the city of Rochester, drawing a blank stare from the downstater.
I was born in NYC, and always kick myself when Oklahomans refer to Oklahoma City as "the City."
People in Baltimore refer to Baltimore City as "the city" and Baltimore County as "the county."
In my early years, the Warriors led me to believe that San Francisco is "The City":
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FKDjjZiE.jpg&hash=41d4a67398bb6ee3b745be6fd29c62a68c3c5948)
Couple I hear from time to time.
The Louisville metro is often "Kentuciana". I have also heard "Michiana" for the South Bend, etc, area. Bristol-Kingsport-Johnson City are "the Tri-Cites" (even though there are four cities, as Bristol, VA and Bristol, TN have seperate governments). But the entire area, generally defined as places that get TV from there, is "the Mountain Empire". All of coastal SC from the NC line (or slightly north of it) to Murrels Inlet is "the Grand Stand", Myrtle Beach being only a small part of that. When I was a kid "Reds Country" meant the places where Cincinnait was the nearest big league city, which was quite much more than just Cincinnati metro.
As to Floridia's "coasts". From north to south on the Atlantic side: First Coast (Jacksonville - St. Augustine), Fun Coast (Daytona), Space Coast (Cape Canaveal), Treasure Coast (Jupiter-Palm Beach), Gold Coast (Ft. Lauderdale - Miami), Keys. On the Gulf side, Northwest Florida (Pensacola), Big Bend (Tallahasse), Forgotten Coast (St. Joe developments), Sun Coast (Tampa Bay and the Naples area together).
Quote from: SP Cook on February 08, 2013, 06:12:50 PM
Fun Coast (Daytona)
Never heard this one. They must not do any advertising in Orlando.
Quote from: Grzrd on February 08, 2013, 05:44:54 PM
In my early years, the Warriors led me to believe that San Francisco is "The City"[/img]
Yep, SF is known as "The City by the Bay"
Speaking of SF, the Bay Area is divided into several regions. Pretty much anything between San Francisco and Santa Clara is known as
The Peninsula. The area around San Jose is the
South Bay. Anything east of the bay (such as Oakland) is the
East Bay. Finally, anything north of the bay (such as Napa and Vallejo) is in the
North Bay.
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Quote from: Grzrd on February 08, 2013, 05:44:54 PM
In my early years, the Warriors led me to believe that San Francisco is "The City"[/img]
Yep, SF is known as "The City by the Bay"
Speaking of SF, the Bay Area is divided into several regions. Pretty much anything between San Francisco and Santa Clara is known as The Peninsula. The area around San Jose is the South Bay. Anything east of the bay (such as Oakland) is the East Bay. Finally, anything north of the bay (such as Napa and Vallejo) is in the North Bay.
I've heard Oakland called The City by The City by the Bay. Hartford and New Haven are often referred to as Greater _____, but there's a movement to call Greater Hartford the Capitol Region. Another one that is out there is for the Stamford/Greenwich/Norwalk area: The Gold Coast. The Pioneer Valley refers to most of Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin County, MA within 20 miles east or west of the Connecticut River. The area west of Boston along the Mass Pike out to 495 is also known as Metro West. Buffalo area is known as Western New York.
Just reading through the topic brought some more names to me...
Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills , and Manteo, NC: The Outer Banks (OBX)
Pittsburgh: The Steel City
The area from Jamestown, NY to Binghamton, NY: The Southern Tier (I-86)
Toledo, OH: The Glass City
Cincinnati and Charlotte, NC: The Queen City
And, finally, something Clevelanders have been hearing for many years: The Mistake by the Lake
P.S.: Cleveland is not that bad of a city. It now has a mix of the classic northeastern city with the modern interwoven in.
Toronto gets "hog town", or the "big smoke." "The city" is also common.
The western edge of Lake Ontario is typically referred to as the Golden Horseshoe.
If you take a map of Southern Ontario and rotate it 90º clockwise, you'll see it's shaped like an elephant.
That's why Owen Sound is referred to as "The Elephant's Bunghole." :-D
Quote from: AsphaltPlanet on February 09, 2013, 11:24:29 PM
Toronto gets "hog town", or the "big smoke." "The city" is also common.
The western edge of Lake Ontario is typically referred to as the Golden Horseshoe.
The GTA.
Quote from: Road Hog on February 11, 2013, 12:28:47 PM
If you take a map of Southern Ontario and rotate it 90º clockwise, you'll see it's shaped like an elephant.
That's why Owen Sound is referred to as "The Elephant's Bunghole." :-D
Maybe? I suck at drawing! :(
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Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia = Puget Sound Area
Greater Vancouver, BC = Lower Mainland
Quote from: Road Hog on February 11, 2013, 12:28:47 PM
If you take a map of Southern Ontario and rotate it 90º clockwise, you'll see it's shaped like an elephant.
That's why Owen Sound is referred to as "The Elephant's Bunghole." :-D
What is considered Cottage Country in Ontario?
I've heard it mentioned on TV weather reports in Toronto, but they presume that the audience knows where Cottage Country is.
Wikipedia has a Cottage Country entry here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_country), but it make reference to
three different parts of Ontario.
Is that really correct?
Quote from: cpzilliacus on February 15, 2013, 02:44:59 AM
What is considered Cottage Country in Ontario?
I've heard it mentioned on TV weather reports in Toronto, but they presume that the audience knows where Cottage Country is.
Wikipedia has a Cottage Country entry here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_country), but it make reference to three different parts of Ontario.
Is that really correct?
If I were to guess the meaning, I'd come up with exactly what Wikipedia describes; seems pretty straightforward to me. It's what in the States would be called a resort area, as the Catskills or Poconos would be to NYC.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on February 01, 2013, 09:20:46 AM
Riverside and its surrounding municipalities are known as the Inland Empire.
the suburban area west of Burbank is known as the San Fernando Valley, or just "the Valley".
east of downtown San Diego is known as "east county", and north of San Diego is "north county", but these also encompass rural areas.
between San Jose and San Diego on 101 is Silicon Valley, and the corresponding region near Boston is called Route 128 (not I-95!).
Silicon Valley is located between San Francisco and San Jose, while the section of coast between SJ or Salinas and Santa Maria or Santa Barbara is called the "Central Coast Kingdom" and from there to SD is the "Southland" represented Southern California.
L.A. is known as "La-La-Land" and "the Big Orange", but was nicknamed "Los Anglos" when the city was portrayed as a bastion of WASP's in the mid 20th century.
Palm Springs and Palm Desert shared the titles of "Golf capital of America", "the Playground of Presidents" and "Heaven's waiting room" due to the large retiree population, while my hometown Indio Cal. is "the Hub of the Valley".
Mike D Boy,
All you spoke is true, but in your profile, you list "Sou Cal," which is a new one on me. I have of course, heard of SoCal, but never Sou Cal...
The western crescent shape of land around Lake Ontario in Canada is referred to as the Golden Horseshoe.
Quote from: djsinco on February 16, 2013, 03:39:27 AM
Mike D Boy,
All you spoke is true, but in your profile, you list "Sou Cal," which is a new one on me. I have of course, heard of SoCal, but never Sou Cal...
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Quote from: cpzilliacus on February 15, 2013, 02:44:59 AM
Quote from: Road Hog on February 11, 2013, 12:28:47 PM
If you take a map of Southern Ontario and rotate it 90º clockwise, you'll see it's shaped like an elephant.
That's why Owen Sound is referred to as "The Elephant's Bunghole." :-D
What is considered Cottage Country in Ontario?
I've heard it mentioned on TV weather reports in Toronto, but they presume that the audience knows where Cottage Country is.
Wikipedia has a Cottage Country entry here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_country), but it make reference to three different parts of Ontario.
Is that really correct?
Cottage country is a vague term in Ontario. Wikipedia may list three different areas, but all three areas are really just a large swath of land to the north and east of Toronto.
I've always figured that Ontario looked like a fish, not an elephant.
Quote from: kphoger on February 16, 2013, 11:11:44 AM
Quote from: djsinco on February 16, 2013, 03:39:27 AM
Mike D Boy,
All you spoke is true, but in your profile, you list "Sou Cal," which is a new one on me. I have of course, heard of SoCal, but never Sou Cal...
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.minotaurstudios.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F01%2Fpow1.jpg&hash=58c83e5f7f3aa0d3c37510827f4874ce375aeb9b) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salchow_jump)
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