More like St. I'm interested in renaming as a form of unofficial culture, folk culture. Sometimes the new name carries a weight of opinion - one type of renaming is to give a locality an insulting version of its real name. I've seen this most prevalently in teenagers and in service personnel stationed somewhere away from home.
For instance, my hometown of Red Bank was called "Dead Bank" by its disaffected teens. It's been studied a little bit by folklorists, but I'd love to assemble some more recent name versions. I understand that some of these "Jew York" might not always be PC and certainly can accept that in this context as I hope others can. This Onion piece was not my inspiration, but turned up in a search - you get the idea.
So please share your town's insulting nickname! Also, I think, LA. Now that I think about it I'm not sure if it's meant as derogatory or a badge of honor. You choose. Tangental, I know. But still. Aurora, out on the flats east of Denver, where slums and slightly-less-than-middle-class neighborhoods are sprawled, is often referred to especially by older and more conservative residents, I've found as 'Saudi Aurora.
Screwy St. A quick search reveals that people are still referring to Cumberland, MD as "Cumberhole", rather charmingly and reflexively typifying the local wit. If we're talking Red Bank, NJ possible. It was once called "Dead Bank" as well, it's revitalized and has been referred to as "Hip City" in magazines, etc. Which, although it does have some cool stuff now, is enough of an overstatement that that nickname is now used mainly ironically.
Indiano-place Indianapolis posted by cashman at AM on December 17, In high school we had nicknames like this for all the other schools we played against. I don't remember any of them any more except the one for my own high school town, Eureka. It was "you reek I've heard Orlando called "O-bland-o" or maybe "Or-bland-o" due to its lack of restaurants and culture that can be enjoyed by the locals.
