city nicknames

[colin]

I just did a quick search out of curiosity and came across this: Trivia Asylum.

It looks old ("Optimized for IE 4.0"), but I'm sure more of it still holds true. I saw a few that I knew of that were missing and some that I thought were ridiculous.

Is there a better list somewhere?

Any comments on this list?

[pvenne]

I just did a quick search out of curiosity and came across this: Trivia Asylum.

It looks old ("Optimized for IE 4.0"), but I'm sure more of it still holds true. I saw a few that I knew of that were missing and some that I thought were ridiculous.

Is there a better list somewhere?

Any comments on this list?

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Portland maine (my city) was listed as "hill city" Ive never heard this. I have heard of brick city and forest city though. thats all I have in terms of additions.

[TheBostonian]

Well "Beantown" is still used for Boston even though I hate it.

[MadVlad]

How can the forget "the Insurance Capitol of the World"?

[cheeriokid61]

I like the fact there are three Venices, three of them being in the North.

I'm also surprised how the forgot Athens of the South. We built the Parthenon, for goodness sakes, yet they managed to forget us, but remember Celery City.

[rusthebuss]

I thought they would have had something for Norfolk, Va.

[ctman987]

Hartford is known as the Insurance Capital of the World but a new marketing campaign to bring people to the city a few years back started the nickname "New England's Rising Star" which is still being used today.

[NCB]

New Orleans has many nicknames...

The two that are used most often are "The Big Easy" and "The Crescent City"

But there's also "The City That Sin Forgot" "The Original Sin City" "Paris of America"

and "Jewel of the South"

[jmanhsv]

That list says that Miami is the "Magic City"! That's Birmingham's nickname!

The list also forgot about Huntsville's famous nickname- the Rocket City. I have heard someone call Huntsville the "prison city", obviously confusing us with the other Huntsville in Texas.

[csmurphy8885]

Tallahassee was left off, thank god. the only nickname i have ever heard was sometihng horrible like, "the Fantastic capital of Fabulous Florida"... no T-shirt huts in tallahassee for some reason (the only city in fla without 5 for 5 t shirts)...lol