Does your hometown have any fun nicknames?

I wouldn't say that they were "fun" - but people do like to talk down about the area where I live... and there's a certain degree of rivalry between us and the other town in our borough.

Every time money is spent on one - the other starts complaining "Why do they get this... and we get nothing - again". It doesn't matter that the money came from a ringfenced grant that must be spent on the town that was awarded it by law... "they" are getting something "we" are not. It's like watching children in the school playground fighting over the "good" ball.

Sadly, due to some shootings in the past, my City is known as Shottingham...

However, more funnily sweeties, due to some Earl or someone, it was originally called Snottingham...as in the Earl Of Snot!

Always found that dead funny!

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One of my favourites was an ex PM here who said of you're not living in Sydney you're just camping out 😜

My home city of Stoke-on-Trent is known as The Potteries, because they make pottery.

Edinburgh, the nearest city to where I live, is known as Auld Reekie, because of the chimneys and smoke.

My hometown used to be called little Chicago. It was about half way between Chicago and las vegas, so it had an alarming about of mob influence and drug running up until about 2000.

I live in Cambridge England. There are so many bicycles in its often called Cycle City 😂

I'm from Boston, we are known as Beantown 🙂

A lot of residents seem to not like Michigan. I have never been, but never heard anything good.

My hometown, nothing real interesting.

The friendly city.

I wouldn't know.. 😬 It was named after a Frenchman tho.. that’s all i know

Beantown (Boston ) because of the baked beans made here years ago!

I live in downtown Toronto Canada and it has two nicknames.

Older Torontonians refer to Toronto just as the northern Native Indians referred to Toronto, which was "The Big Smoke", in reference to Toronto producing a lot of coal smoke when coal was burned to generate electricity.

Toronto's other nickname is "Hogtown" because Toronto is where the vast majority of Canadian livestock end their journey at the Toronto Stock Yards.

The town they forgot to close down .....

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hongcouver, raincouver

Brizzle (Bristol, UK) on account of the fine weather ⛈

"Harbour City:".

It used to be called BoomTown because it was overflowing with oil

Baghdad by the Bay
The City By The Bay
The City
Frisco

We just have a commonly known name for local wind. It's an abbreviation of "Fucking *name of the city* Wind" and every local knows what it means.

clfty cause of all the cliffs,but at the swimming hole its called cltty lol.

Rose City, Rip City (Trailblazers)