DC Neighborhoods have dumb names.
so I was looking at a ,a href="
http://www.neighborhoodinfodc.org/nclusters/nclusters.html">website</a> with the names of DC neighborhoods, and I got to thinking about the names. I decided to go through and write what I thought the name sounded like - not what I know about the place, but just what the name itself sounded like. So here are the results. Feel free to post your own ideas about the names if you so desire.
Adams Morgan – sounds average
Anacostia – sounds ok. Maybe a little country wide place in the road.
Arboretum – sounds ghetto. Arboretum is an old word and is kind of unattractive, which makes me think the hood is the same way.
Barnaby Woods – sounds fancy
Barry Farms – sounds kind of like a brand new subdivision. Is really housing projects though.
Bellevue – sounds crappy. Maybe like an suburb from the 70s that is ugly
Benning – ok
Berkeley – sounds good. Full of hippies. I don’t really think there is a place called that
Bloomingdale – sounds crappy
Brentwood – maybe nice, maybe ghetto trying to sound nice
Brightwood Park – sounds ghetto
Brookland – sounds ok
Buena Vista – kind of crummy
Burleith - ok
Burrville – sounds like a little colonial town, or a farming village
Buzzard Point – sounds bad
Capitol Hill – sounds kind of ghetto
Capitol View – sounds more than kind of ghetto
Cardoza – like a small Texas town. So small they only have
6 man football.
Cardozo Shaw – sounds ok. maybe kind of crappy.
Carver – sounds ok
Cathedral Heights – I’m torn. Cathedral sounds nice, but heights sounds ghetto
Chevy Chase – sounds nice
Chinatown – sounds like Chinatown
Cleveland Park – I know it’s nice, but sounds kind of crappy. Who names something for Grover Cleveland?
Columbia Heights – kind of crappy
Congress Heights – very crappy. “Heights” generally sounds bad to me.
Crestwood - ghetto
Deanwood – ghetto. “-wood” also sounds bad to me. “Woods” though, sounds nice, as a separate word. Weird how that is.
Douglass – sounds ok
Eastland Gardens – sounds very ghetto. “Gardens” also sounds bad. Like a low income burb developed in 1900, and now it’s worse, or maybe a big housing project. I’ve never heard of this place before.
Eckington – sounds crappy
Edgewood – also crappy. Very generic name.
Embassy Row – nice, obviously. You don't have embassies in bad neighborhoods, I assume
Fairlawn - crappy
Fairfax Village – sounds like it’s in Virginia
Fairmont Heights – very ghetto
Foggy Bottom – sounds like an industrial hood
Forest Hills – sounds like a nice old suburb
Fort Davis Park – kind of lame, because it says park. The other forts all sound OK though
Fort Dupont – sounds ok
Fort Lincoln – ditto
Fort McNair – ditto
Fort Stanton – ditto
Fort Totten – ditto
Foxhall – sounds nice. Fox = fox hunting, hall = big fancy old mansion. Whoever named this was a good salesman. Though I think it was named for a Mr. Foxall.
Friendship Heights – sounds very bad. Which is funny, because it's pretty nice.
Garfield Heights – sounds very very bad. Garfield is an ugly word, and heights is bad.
Gateway - ghetto. Gateway to what? Never heard of this neighborhood either.
Georgetown – sounds old
Glover Park – sounds bad
Good Hope – ok. maybe a little farming community.
Grant Park – hard to say. Probably old and crappy
Greenway – old, ok suburbs
Hawthorne – not so good
Hill East - ghetto
Hillandale – ghetto, or maybe crappy old burbs
Hillbrook - ghetto
Hillcrest – ghetto
Hillsdale – very ghetto. As you can see, all "Hill-" sounds bad to me
Historic Anacostia – sounds historic
Howard University – sounds like a university
Ivy City – sounds crappy
Kalorama Heights – sounds weird, and maybe crappy
Kenilworth – sounds ok
Kingman Park – sounds ghetto
Knox Hill – very ghetto. Like a housing project or a prison
Lamond Riggs – sounds ok
Langdon - ghetto
Langston - ghetto
Lanier Heights – ghetto. Is actually a nice place though
Le Droit Park - ok
Lincoln Heights - ghetto
Lincoln Park – nice. Park and Heights make a big difference
Logan Circle – sounds ok
Lower Central Northeast – this is a name of a neighborhood? How stupid.
Lower Fairfax Village – also stupid
Mahaning Heights – sounds pretty nice. I’ve never heard of this place though.
Manor Park – sounds like it's trying to sound nicer than it is
Marshall Heights - ghetto
Mass Avenue Heights – very ghetto
Massachusetts Heights - ghetto
Mayfair - ghetto
McLean Gardens – very ghetto (but actually is pretty nice)
Michigan Park – pretty nice (is actually ok)
Mt. Pleasant – sounds pretty bad (is actually nice)
Mt. Vernon Square – ok. Mount Vernon sounds bad, but Square sounds like it’s a nice part of a colonial city. Thus it equals out to “Ok”
Navy Yard – ghetto. Like navy yards usually are. Dirty and seedy.
Naylor Gardens – ghetto
Near Southeast – sounds pretty crappy, if there is nothing else to describe them besides a direction.
North Portal Estates – this sounds pretty lame. “North Portal” is dumb, and “Estates” sounds like a lame suburb name from the 50’s.
Palisades - nice
Park View – ghetto (“view” is bad to me too. If it were nice, you wouldn’t have a view of the park, you’d be in the park, right? Though Parkside sounds ghetto also.)
Penn Branch – sounds nice
Penn Quarter – also nice. Sounds old and stately, although it’s really kind of a new, manufactured neighborhood. Smart name though.
Petworth - ok
Pinehurst Circle – very ghetto. I’ve never heard of this place
Pleasant Hills – ghetto.
Pleasant Plains – ghetto too. If you have to tell somebody it’s pleasant, it’s probably not.
Queens Chapel – sounds nice and colonial. Maybe a little country village that has antique shows and stuff.
Randle Highlands - ghettto
River Terrace – ghetto (terrace = bad)
Rock Creek Gardens – ghetto. Garden also = bad
Shaw - ok
Shepherd Park – pretty nice
Sheridan – old mansions
Shipley - crappy
Skyland – what? This is a stupid name. sounds like shitty little 60s houses
Southwest Employment Area – you’ve got to be kidding me. You can’t come up with a name for this place? It must be a wasteland if the only thing remarkable about it is that people are employed there.
Spring Valley – sounds like a farming village, or a new subdivision with a fake name.
Stanton Park – sounds pretty nice. Is actually ok
Stronghold – this is really a neighborhood? Man, I don’t want to live anywhere near there. It sounds terrrrrible.
Summit Park – ghetto. Even though it has Park, which sounds nice, Summit makes it sound ghetto to me.
Sursum Corda – this doesn’t sound like anything. It’s ghetto though in real life.
Swampoodle – this is awesome. I love this neighborhood name. It’s the area around Union Station
Takoma – sounds ok
Tenleytown – sounds nice, with old colonial type houses. It is pretty nice in real life, but no colonial houses.
The Palisades – oh, very shi-shi. “The” sounds nice and Palisades. fancy pants mcgees live here.
Trinidad – sounds like it should be in New Orleans
Truxton Circle – sounds like crap
Twining – eh, ok
Union Station – sounds like a place to catch a train
Van Ness – sounds pretty nice
Washington Highlands – sounds very ghetto
Washington Mall – sounds dumb. Really though, if you lived in the Washington Mall part of Chicago or something, I would think that is a stupid name for a neighborhood
Waterfront – hard to say. Some waterfronts are bad, some are nice. Most are not too great I suppose.
Wesley Heights – sounds kind of nice, despite “heights,” which I generally think is bad
West End – sounds nice. Some fancy apartments I would bet.
Woodland – sounds pretty nice
Woodley Park – nice
Woodridge - ok. sounds like very ho hum boring suburbs.
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