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[tee rex]

Places you couldn't bear to live, based on the names alone. Usually new subdivisions/estates, like this one in Auckland ...

Golfland Drive

See the sights of Golflands, swing by Tiger Drive (geddit?), Faldo Drive, Putter Place, and other kill-me-now delights.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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Seeing as how they found room for John Lister, Frank Nobilo and Simon Owen, I'm surprised at the lack of love for Michael Campbell, the only Kiwi (apart from Bob Charles) to actually win a major.

Or was the estate built prior to 2005?

I live on an estate where most of the names are after the local flora. Blackthorn, Whitethorn, Oak, Birch, Elm, Juniper. And Pingle. What the fuck is pingle?

[Sean of the Shed]

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Knock-off golf gear?

[beak]

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Welcome to Nijmegen.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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I live very near here. However, as it's the site of the old Munich airport, it's kind of appropriate.

[Borracho]

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[Borracho]

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There's also this inelegantly-phrased one in New York:

[Sits]

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Not too many suburbs away from here you can find Lois Lane.

[Duncan Gardner]

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Heh. I correctly guessed Calx's first two before seeing them.

Nijmegen's town planners need urgent psychiatric help.

[Kevin S]

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Not sure about shame; two of everyone's favourite York streets:

[Geoffrey de Ste. Croix]

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beak wrote: Welcome to Nijmegen.

Geldrop in the south of the Netherlands has streets named after characters in Lord of the Rings

[Duncan Gardner]

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A school friend of mine lived at 6, Upper Toberhewny Lane, Lurgan.

Try saying it quickly in a Neil Lennon voice.

[Crusoe]

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On the flipside of this thread, I'd loved to live on John Carpenter Street down near the river.

[WOM]

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The Bendale section of my burgh. "Yeah, it's around here somewhere. Called Ben-something or other..."

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[ursus arctos]

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There are 71 streets named Peachtree in Metro Atlanta

[Patrick Thistle]

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There's a Fanny Street in Cardiff.

[beak]

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Sits wrote: Not too many suburbs away from here you can find Lois Lane.

What about Kirstie Alley?

[Sean of the Shed]

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The road on which Shepshed Dynamo's ground can be found.

[beak]

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"Whore Hunt", Enkhuizen

Some Amsterdam favourites:

Spooksteeg ("Ghost Alley")
Gebed zonder End ("Prayer Without End")
Oude Nieuwstraat ("Old New Street")
Nieuwe Nieuwstraat ("New New Street")

[Duncan Gardner]

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WOM, you're an neighbor to my cousin on Lawrence East.

Actually, you might not be. She lives a block from Yonge, and for all I know Lawrence East probably ends up in Nova Scotia or Greenland.

You do things differently there.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Gropecunt Lane was a popular English street name in the old days.

[WOM]

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Duncan Gardner wrote: WOM, you're an neighbor to my cousin on Lawrence East.

Actually, you might not be. She lives a block from Yonge, and for all I know Lawrence East probably ends up in Nova Scotia or Greenland.

You do things differently there.

I'm only a block away from the other end of Lawrence East to her.

[WOM]

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IIRC, we're also Northern Ireland neighbours as well.

[Felicity, I guess so]

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My facebook was full a year or so back of Madrid friends mocking/abusing/graffiti-ing the recently-named Plaza Margaret Thatcher.

Pleased to hear the new leftie coalition is going to rename it.

Other Madrid addresses to avoid/rename: Calle de la Division Azul (the volunteers who fought with the SS on the Eastern front); Calles/Avenidas of various Francoist generals.

[Geoffrey de Ste. Croix]

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Felicity, I guess so wrote: My facebook was full a year or so back of Madrid friends mocking/abusing/graffiti-ing the recently-named Plaza Margaret Thatcher.

Pleased to hear the new leftie coalition is going to rename it.

Please let it be Plaza Arthur Scargill.