What's in a name?

Alex's post about friends living in Holliday in Florida made me think... yeah, I do that sometimes....

I have moved around much too much in my life, at least much more than I wanted to, and I know that there will be more new addresses in my future.

I don't know if other folks do this, but when I start researching areas for a new home, I pay as much attention to the name of the street as I do the floor plan and sturdiness/cleanliness of the future abode.

There's a town in the Texas Panhandle called Happy, and the town's motto is The Town Without a Frown. It is a small farming community not far from where my mom now resides. It always seemed a great place to be, although, I know it was simply what the name implied, I never spent much time there to get any other opinion formed.

Then there is Silverton, Tx, named just as the infamous town in Colorado. I lived there for a few years and could have easily changed the name to Stepford. The town's motto was Live the Dream, which if you read the Savage Chicken cartoons, look up the cartoon they have with the same name and you will get the idea.

My favorite abode was in Rockport Texas. Near the water, the coast, I love it, it does so much for my state of mind that I can't imagine not being near water ever again (a large swimming pool might suffice, I just don't know yet). Rockport is next to several small communites, similar to it, Fulton and another area called Holiday Beach... now that sounds like my kind of place, on the Texas coast... drove out there and found that it was a nice area but I never found the beach, even though it was suppose to be right on the bay.

My latest residence, not including my summer digs, is located on a street named Hillcrest, which is the same name of the street where my mom lives. The house numbers are not the same, but they are not far off. It is a similar neighborhood type as well, which is funny, considering her house is over 500 miles from mine. It gets tricky when you are stressed or tired and someone asks for your address (business reasons), or when I am mailing something to my mom...

My summer digs are in Galveston, although I head home next week, after traveling to get my 16 year old son from his dad. My victorian downstairs apt. is on Avenue M 1/2. There is a half street for several of the Alpha Avenues. Now folks, it is an island, why would it be so hard to think of alpha named streets after you ran out of the first 26 letters? Guess half letters worked for the city. Downtown there is a Market Street, as many towns have, and a Post Office Street, which I am sure at one time were the streets the Market and the Post Office, respectively, were on.

I can't think of them right now, probably due to deliberate blocking, but there have been several street names I have come across that made me wonder "who would want to live on a street named THAT?" I am sure you can think of some, so let me know what they were, so we can both have a laugh. ...