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New neighborhood naming war: Fort Hill or Highland Park?
By adamg on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 1:10pm
Iseut reports that a battle has broken out on a neighborhood mailing list over what to call the hill:
... I kinda like Boston Highlands for this section of Roxbury. But I agree, too, with the neighbor who fairly growled on the listserv, call this nook what you like but its name is Roxbury.
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A bunch of hippy yuppies
A bunch of hippy yuppies fighting over the name of a neighborhood that they did not grow up in and will move out of in the near future. Love how they repeatedly stress that they live in Roxbury. If you want to be really urban chic, go try and gentrify Intervale St or Stanwood St.
Rubber, glue, etc.
Yes, because people only have any right to think anything if they live in the same neighborhood they grew up in. Extra points if it's in their mom's basement.
I'll have my neighbor relations on the rocks.
This is a great trend. All the neighborhoods should swap their old name for the name of a brand of whisky. Particularly those places that were renamed by a developer or real estate agent. The new name should reflect the spirit of the place, eg Goverment Center could become The Famous Grouse, Southie might be The Green Spot and Storrow Drive could be renamed Wild Geese.
100 proof agreed
I live down the hill and we don't get a pretty name, we're just 'those people down the hill from Highland Park' or maybe we live on 'Lower Fort Hill'. Either way I hereby rename our little neighborhood Johnny Walker Flats.
Fort Hill is a great name!
Why would anybody want to change it? And this "Boston highlands" nonsense has to go. It is so generic and meaningless. That's not even the highest neighborhood in Boston, which is Belvue Hill in West Roxbury, followed by Clarendon Heights in Roslindale.