Do street names matter to you?

[gfh77665]

They do to me. I preuse the real estate listings quite often, and some of the street names I see, well, they are just stupid or flat out horrible. One I saw today is "Giddy Up Circle". One I am familar with is "Dell Dale" road in Houston. I have seen "Pumpkin Pie road" on a map. I lived on "Bois D'Arc" once. Imagine trying to spell that (with the apostrophe) to someone over the phone. I recieved mail with at least a dozen variations. Boys de Arc, Bo Dark, Boys Dark, and so one.

Do the planners even think about these weird or dumb names, as far as functionality is concerned? Then there are street names with 15-20 letters, or some nearly impossible to pronounce. It turns me away from buying on streets named like these. Why do they do this?

 

[_Will_]

my favorite head scratchers have numbers at the start of the name which are easily misinterpreted as part of the house number.

Ex: 123 Five Horses Ln, so the pizza guy drives around looking for 1235 Horses Ln and your dinner gets cold.

 

[JRay’07]

Only if it’s my name.

 

[IndyIan]

For subdivisions, often the developer chooses the street names and the planner approves them, or not.
A couple subdivisions near me have all the names of the developers kids or grandkids, which works pretty well as they have typical names with typical spelling.
Street and place naming is a not as simple as it might seem! Municipalities who "save" on not getting a full time planner often pay for it later!

 

[dnewton3]

No; it doesn't bother me at all.

Best name ever ... "Bacon Road" which leads to "Bacon, Indiana" ... Ya gotta love that!

 

[gfh77665]

For subdivisions, often the developer chooses the street names and the planner approves them, or not.
A couple subdivisions near me have all the names of the developers kids or grandkids, which works pretty well as they have typical names with typical spelling.
Street and place naming is a not as simple as it might seem! Municipalities who "save" on not getting a full time planner often pay for it later!

I dislike the "kids & grandkids names" strategy too. Is it Cindy Lou? Cindi Lou? Cindy Lu? Cindi Lu? So many are now getting away from typical spellings. That, and its hard to seem manly if you tell another man you live on "Cindy Lou" street. LOL.

 

[Hall]

I find them interesting sometimes, other times boring.... Where I grew up, there was a neighborhood with golf-related names: Putters Ln, Fairway Dr, Bunker Dr, Pro Dr, etc. Nearby there is a neighborhood with Cypress, Pecan, Magnolia, Yellowood, and Juniper.

Where we live now, there are two neighborhoods, nowhere near each other, with boring names.... Mark, Lisa, Angela, Bradley, and Kathie in one and the other has Jill, Scott, Arnold, Sue, Mary, etc.

 

[Klutch9]

My favorite road name was somewhere in a rural area of MI called "Unnamed Road #2" or something like that. It ran along rail road tracks and had houses on it. Can't remember where it was exactly.

 

[Vercingetorix]

Having the same house numbers as the next street over is not the brightest idea.

 

[earlyre]

there's one near me, that google maps ALWAYS messes up in directions, I've Contacted them to try and fix it, but they keep declining my correction.
it's "Southside Dr" it only exists to service "Southside Christian Church" ( it's only a block long) which built there 10-15 years ago, and kept the name, despite not being remotely on the south side any more.....
Google directions, ALWAYS refer to it as "S. Side Drive" with South as a Directional, even though it runs E-W.....

Where we live now, there are two neighborhoods, nowhere near each other, with boring names.... Mark, Lisa, Angela, Bradley, and Kathie in one and the other has Jill, Scott, Arnold, Sue, Mary, etc.

there's a few Developments near me, with similar name structure... local lore is the developer named the roads after family members...

My brother's house is on "Amy" it gets semi frustrating as some databases have it as "Amy Ave", others as "Amy Dr." some sites will only accept one or the other, but both will get delivered to his house.

the neighborhood is 2 different developments that run into each other.
one has names like Amy, Marciel, Gregory, Sharlene, Geneva, Theresa, Cherie.
the other has Carriage and Surrey, with Lobo running through both of them...

 

[skyactiv]

Doesn't bother me. In Hilliard/Columbus, OH, a developer named streets after tennis shoes: Nike, Adidas, Avia and Reebok.

 

[PontiacHO]

House Fly Lane. Black Snake Road. Then names of the owners of property along a road…**** Phillips road etc. Upper Nettle Knob Road.
Lower Nettle Knob Road. What’s a nettle knob?
Meat Camp Road. ??

 

[wavinwayne]

There is some nice real estate near me on "Convict Camp Road". Not kidding.

 

[ProbeGT]

I never thought about street names until I moved into a house with a generic name, let's call it "Farm Rd." There's another Farm Rd nearby. It's in a different ZIP code but that doesn't stop UPS and FedEx and other couriers from messing up deliveries. A construction crew showed up to dig up my front lawn once, I barely convinced them they had the wrong address. Another time, a truck dumped a full bed load of sand in my driveway meant for the other house. What a nightmare!

 

[Allaned]

Mostly I get confused in Atlanta where all the streets seem to be named "Peachtree something or other"

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

They do to me. I preuse the real estate listings quite often, and some of the street names I see, well, they are just stupid or flat out horrible. One I saw today is "Giddy Up Circle". One I am familar with is "Dell Dale" road in Houston. I have seen "Pumpkin Pie road" on a map. I lived on "Bois D'Arc" once. Imagine trying to spell that (with the apostrophe) to someone over the phone. I recieved mail with at least a dozen variations. Boys de Arc, Bo Dark, Boys Dark, and so one.

Do the planners even think about these weird or dumb names, as far as functionality is concerned? Then there are street names with 15-20 letters, or some nearly impossible to pronounce. It turns me away from buying on streets named like these. Why do they do this?

North of Houston near prison country I came across three dirt roads (Tom, D-#@$, Harry). Must be a Texas thing. lol.

 

[gfh77665]

Having the same house numbers as the next street over is not the brightest idea.

That is our experience, Our whole Subdivision shuffels mail to the right addresses. I live on Sandy Creek. The very next block its Shadow Creek. We have duplicate numerical addresses for the whole street. Just dumb.

 

[opus1]

Somewhere I have a picture of the two street signs, but have to look for it. This is in Dalzell, IL.

 

[Vil_Riker]

I lived on a street where the street name on the title was different than what the post office had in their records. Needless to say, depending on what map solutions was being used, deliveries did not happen bvery well. Even the post office would mess up often.

 

[Patman]

The street that I live on is called Bagot Street and it does bother me a little bit, it just sounds goofy to me