Would you live on a street with a stupid name?

[Susie]

Perrier wouldn't be a dealbreaker for me.

We looked at a couple houses on Spawn Rd., though, and I really thought long & hard about that.

I also refused to see a house on Kris Krossing. What am I, a Kardashian?

ETA:  There's also a Columbine Drive in my town, and I've always wondered if houses on that street have a harder time selling than the same homes a street or two over

[IIOY]

Mar 6, 2013 11:19:43 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

;There's a Tenacious Dr.,

I would totally call my street Tenacious D.

I don't think these street names are bad enough to skip the houses. I thought perhaps you found a Cocksucker Drive or Ronald Reagan Way. ;-)

[thewop]

*shrug* Sure, why not? Unless the street name was something totally weird like Penis Point or Vulva Drive, I wouldn't think much of it.

[TBM]

I did find myself hoping to hate houses on certain streets with stupid names, (I was surprised at how many bad ones there were out there), but I could live on Perrier. ;p

I wound up with a house in a city that I said I didn't want to live in because of the name, with a street name that is nms, but not horrible. The street name conjures up a very different house style/time period than our house projects. For some reason, we find that slightly amusing.

[Deleted]

Tenacious Dr. is a bit weird but none of the others would bother me at all.  For me living on Chablis Circle or Perrier Drive would be cool since I'm a fan of both of those beverages.  

Except for streets named after gross body parts as referenced above, I could deal with a weird name. 

[treedimensional]

Please post pics of the house on Chablis drive, it sounds sooo perfect!

[thewop]

Mar 6, 2013 11:45:17 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Mar 6, 2013 11:32:45 GMT -5 thewop said:

*shrug* Sure, why not? Unless the street name was something totally weird like Penis Point or Vulva Drive, I wouldn't think much of it.

Because Perrier, Chablis, and Thoroughbred are conspicuous-consumption street names.  If the house was awesome, I would really try to get past it, but it feels like the same thing as logo clothing - you know, like t-shirts with a Chanel logo on them??

Tenacious is just funny because I would totally make the Jack Black connection, and Treasure is okay, it's just sounds like a Disney street.

 I still don't see the big deal.  I guess it just wouldn't bother me.  Oh wells. 

[emoflamingo]

I really want to live on Easy Street. No, there is one in a small town near me.

I don't really think it'd bother me. I do live in an area where all the zip codes start with 666 though, so I'm already screwed.

[munkii]

Yes, as long as the street names weren't too out there. There are some pretty ridiculous street names in Fishers, IN, such as All American Rd and Endurance Dr. There's also a football themed neighborhood with Packers Ave and Buccaneers Way.

[Deleted]

I'm in the whatever the hell category too. I guess some of them might make me giggle but I'm not running around analyzing my address all day long I guess.

I'd take a silly memorable name over the obscene amount of numbers I have going on in my address any day! It's so hard to remember and just confuses people.

[Deleted]

The house on Chablis looks gorgeous. Unless they are really bad I wouldn't care. Tenacious is a little much but I could deal with it if I loved the house.
We considered a house on Kickapoo Ct. Yes, I know it is a dog but no, we didn't love the house enough to deal with living on Kickapoo.

[TBM]

Mar 6, 2013 12:17:22 GMT -5 @forcuatro said:

We considered a house on Kickapoo Ct. Yes, I know it is a dog but no, we didn't love the house enough to deal with living on Kickapoo.

Kickapoo are a native american people, not a dog.

[emoflamingo]

I actually get irritated at neighborhoods with themed street names. My dad lives in a subdivision and they're all "forest" names. Every city has an Oak street.

There are a few counties here (haha, getting country on you) that have all their streets named after counties in the state. So there's an Anderson road in Anderson county.

[bunnymendelbaum]

It would bug me. Not those names so much, but others. My sister lives on Sunflower Lane and it bugs me even to write it. Idk why. Maybe because it seems juvenile?

[april37]

I agree with TBM... I wouldn't refuse to see a house but would hope I didn't like it if it was on a stupidly named street.

Perrier would be totally fine with me.

We currently live in a neighborhood that has all college names. Except, of course, for ours. It's not a college name. I don't even know where they got the name from. I googled it and came up with nothing. It's just a really hard street name for people to say and spell. I do like it though so I just deal with it accordingly.

[Deleted]

How about a town with a stupid name? Our subdivision was annexed by a town called Pflugerville but by the grace of the Post Office we are within another town's zip code. DH prays that they don't ever build a post office closer to us that will make us have to change our city to Pflugerville. He has visions of mail getting lost going through his head.

[sillygoosegirl]

I live on 116th Ave. I'd rather live on a street with a name. Almost any name. I used to live on Hemlock Drive. People would comment on that. It was a tree themed neighborhood, but of course hemlock is also famious for being a poison. I always got a kick out of it.

Streets named for brands of anything do rub me the wrong way a little bit.

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Mar 6, 2013 12:21:11 GMT -5 TBM said:

Mar 6, 2013 12:17:22 GMT -5 @forcuatro said:

We considered a house on Kickapoo Ct. Yes, I know it is a dog but no, we didn't love the house enough to deal with living on Kickapoo.

Kickapoo are a native american people, not a dog.

My bad.  A friend got her dog from the Kickapoo Rescue so I assumed it was a dog.  American history must not be my strong point.

[statlerwaldorf]

The only street we nixed was Coonpath. My first apartment was in an area called Independence Village and all of the streets were like Centennial Drive, Yankee Doodle Drive, Freedom Trail, Flag Lane, Hancock Court, etc. It used to annoy me, but I would still consider a house in there if it wasn't such a shithole.

I had a lot of problems when I lived on a street with a silent w (think Wrap Street). I would spell it out for people, but they would still msend y mail to Rap Street instead of Wrap Street and it wouldn't get delivered.

Part of me wants to live on Boner Street. And I find Kris Krossing awesome.

[perkyderky]

I have friends that live on Seamon Drive (pronounced Semen). They hate the name of their street (and have already said they feel bad for their kids!) but it is what it is and obviously liked the house enough to overlook the street name. There are many "sections" of our town with themes. trees, flowers (a columbine is also a flower, don't forget), story books, etc. I think it's almost inevitable that some street names are silly. For the longest time I thought a street name was misspelled, but then recently discovered that the name was one person and not the one I was thinking. My cousin James used to live on James street, but it was a coincidence.

[kellikans]

I do giggle at funny street names, but I live on a numbered street and kind of wish I lived on a street with a name.

I don't think those street names are all that bad. At least not bad enough to be a dealbreaker for me.

[TBM]

Mar 6, 2013 12:24:02 GMT -5 bunnymendelbaum said:

It would bug me. Not those names so much, but others. My sister lives on Sunflower Lane and it bugs me even to write it. Idk why. Maybe because it seems juvenile?

Talk about juvenile....we rented a condo on Unicorn Circle when my girls were little.  They thought it was wonderful, but I was always a bit embarrassed to give our address.

I grew up with an unusual street name that had to be spelled out, and our current street name is pretty, (and long), but also has to be spelled out. Both street names always get comments and compliments.  Our new street name is kind of boring and dumb (imo), but people will know how to spell it.

[mrssavy42112]

I really don't care. I lived on a numbered street my whole life, until last year. I prefer numbers because they're easier to find, but names are interesting. There is an Easy Street in my hometown too. I know someone on Pleasant St. I'd really like that.

[emoflamingo]

Heehee.. statlerwaldorf said boner. (Sorry, I'm like 12.)

[emoflamingo]

Mar 6, 2013 12:58:14 GMT -5 @callmefia said:

Mar 6, 2013 12:23:49 GMT -5 emoflamingo said:

I actually get irritated at neighborhoods with themed street names. My dad lives in a subdivision and they're all "forest" names. Every city has an Oak street.

There are a few counties here (haha, getting country on you) that have all their streets named after counties in the state. So there's an Anderson road in Anderson county.

I'm so curious how bird lady might feel about a neighborhood jokingly called bird land! Whippoorwill Dr, eagle ave, mockingbird trl, goldfinch trl, etc? =D
It's not really a planned neighborhood, but it kind of has its own pocket. There are a few streets that may not have bird names. I know it has another real name for the area, but someone told me they call it bird land!

I don't care for real birds. Just ceramic ones that don't poop on my car.

[boiler717]

I think it matters, but not a ton. Some friends want to move into another section of our neighborhood but the only open lots are on Capital Spending and they hate it so they are waiting for another release (and have been for a year).

[ktzmoh]

we rented a place on a street with a name I truly hated. I liked the place, and we were in a hurry to find something, so I took it despite the street name. I regretted that compromise every time I gave out our address. I would not buy a house on a street name that bugged me. I would not buy on Perrier lane, because I agree -it sounds like a corporate endorsement of your street or something, like CitiBank lane.

[bunnymendelbaum]

Unicorn Circle? That's bad.

I grew up with a very rural address (think 456755 County Road P) so I love having one that seems more "real".

[Susie]

No discussion of bad street names is complete without:


It's real, and in NJ.  I don't think I could live there.

[tarheels]

Stupid names don't bother me - hard to spell ones do. Our first house was on Henderson - what a joy to never have to spell that one out ever! Our next house was the name of a French saint - annoyed the crap out of me every time.