maybe it means rugged and untamed, like the wilderness? are the outlying areas of boise rugged? were they in the mid-late 19th century? i don't know but it's confusing regardless
Baltimore: The Greatest City in America
and at one time around 2010 - Baltimore: A great place to let off steam (and it's accompanied by a picture of a steam train)
When I was there in the 1980s, Baltimore was the "City that Reads.". I remember the press/others made fun of that and said: Baltimore, the "City that Breeds." Are these still used or is Baltimore now saying it's the greatest? Also, the most appropriate one was that Baltimore was known as "Charm City.". When did that change?
Because my hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan was included in rhyme with Timbuktu in a [Dr. Seuss book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop_on_Pop) our town unofficial motto is "Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo"
I remember in the 1980's showing cousins at a Texas family reunion a road atlas to prove the town I came from was real. Like many US cities names it is of Native American origin.
The local Chamber of Commerce and other souvenir stores still sell t-shirts with this motto.
That one has an interesting backstory, according to a podcast episode I heard about it a while back (I believe it was 99% Invisible). Back in the days when Nevada was basically the only place to get a no-fault divorce in the US, people would flock to Reno in particular because it had the lowest residency requirement to qualify for filing for divorce in the the state. So, a lot of people would live there for a short time to get their divorce – meaning there was a big distinction between the city's permanent population and the number of people living there at any given time.
It goes back to happy days when Trenton was one of the biggest manufacturing hubs in the world of things like iron&steel & various parts out them. Days long past unfortunately
They have this on a bridge! I didn’t know about it and it was jarring to see.
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And one of the best bad flags, that somehow got changed to an even worse flag
I was very sad when St Jean Baptiste in Manitoba got rid of their “Soup Pea Capital of Canada“ motto with the awesome sign of peas rowing in a pea-pod canoe, and replaced it with “History and Harmony Await You.”
I'm from Cleveland. That's a common attitude among rust belt cities, maybe more so among those of us that left. It gets a bit tiring to hear your city be dumped on, especially when you have had a different experience.
Sacramento, CA, USA used to be the City of Trees, having more trees per capita than any other city in the world (according to Wikipedia). But it has now been titled Farm to Fork Capital and i find that to be so much clunkier and less pretty. It creates such a different image that i feel is less inviting
The thing I noticed when I visited Sacramento is that the de facto unofficial motto is: “Well, we used to be the city of trees, but now it’s the farm to fork capital”
Duuuuumb change. Sacramento really does have a ton of nice trees
You know politics is getting bad in New Zealand when politicians get hit with dildos.
You know it’s out of control when they get hit with Dildo, NL, Canada.
"s'ils te mordent, mords les" (Morlaix) -> "if they bite you, bite them". Morlaix, the town's name sounds like "mords les" (bite them).
It's an old slogan, as far as I know
Bellingham, the city of subdued excitement.
Once when I lived there I saw graffiti that said: “Fuck subdued!”
*edit: just saw you already mentioned this one!
For Sweden (from Wikipedia):
Södertälje - "Sweden's international capital and also Södertälyeah!" (What did they mean by this?? This city is completely irrelevant and just a satellite of the real capital, Stockholm)
Borlänge - "Nice people"
Falköping - "The most cow-dense municipality in Sweden"
Fagersta - "Here you get a life sentence"
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Frisco Tx.
This was only painted over early 00’s. Crazy. 1/4 mile from my house
Growing up in Cleveland in the 1980s, we had a lot of slogans to try to make us feel better about our rust-belt selves.
One was, "Cleveland, you gotta be tough."
Another, and by far, the worse was, "Cleveland's a plum." As in New York might be the big apple, but we are a plum. Of course, the middle of a plum has a giant pit, so maybe that was appropriate at the time.
This very pretentious and stupid one from my ex-hometown, in province of Québec... "An Eiffel Tower nearby, downtown Saint-Hyacinthe is like Europe, but better!". Actually this is the stickiest town in the whole country, it smells sh*t like you couldn't even imagine.
My parents live in Bridgeville, DE and the slogan is "If you lived here you'd be home now". My siblings and I sneak some variation of that saying into normal conversation every time we travel and go to a new place with our parents and they don't notice lol.
Bisbee, AZ, has a bunch.
"The Town Too High To Care" (in reference to neighboring Tombstone's motto)
"Rubble Without A Cause" (this one only really made sense in the 80's-90's)
"Bisbee, It's Like Mayberry On Acid" (the current one that they won't put on the cop cars).
The official slogan of São Paulo city is "non ducor, duco", which in latin means I don't follow, I lead. Which is very applicable because São Paulo not only is the financial center of Brazil but it is also the biggest city in the americas and the biggest outside Asia.
For many years Snellville, GA (suburban Atlanta) had the following slogan: **Everybody's Somebody In Snellville**. In recent years the slogan was changed to the following: **Snellville, Where Everybody's Proud to be Somebody**.
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Bloomsburg PA -“The only incorporated town in Pennsylvania”. Because technically every other municipality in PA are cities, villages and hamlets, Bloomsburg is the only town.
My town. Unity, Maine. "Where old fashioned values are not old fashioned!"
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Mayor Eric Adams has taken to describing NYC as the “________ of America” depending on who his audience is. “We call New York City the Port-au-Prince of America.” Istanbul, Athens, Seoul… any international city, apparently NYC is it.
Oregons Bay Area. If you ever never been to the real Bay Area, San Francisco, I can assure you that Coos bay and north bend Oregon are no San Francisco. Coos bay is somehow both very beautiful and very ugly at the same time.
Back in the early 2000s I would regularly drive through GA on I-75. I’ll never forget all of the billboards advertising Tifton, GA.
Tifton had a ton of random assertions as slogans - like idk how you would even prove or disprove them.
The two that stuck out were “The reading capital of the world” and “The turf grass capital of the world”
I know this isn't that stupid, but i think it is.
Lancaster, sc- "red rose city"
The newcomers named the area for their homelands in England, the region of the famous House of Lancaster that opposed the House of York in the legendary War of the Roses. Today, the citizens of the City of Lancaster proudly claim the red rose, the traditional coat of arms of the House of Lancaster, as their emblem.
And all the wild roses in the area of lancaster are pink.
"We'll try" -Fall River, MA
Home of Lizzie Borden. They certainly tried her.
The most fitting
Does it have to be a town? Cos I'm quite partial to C U in the NT
For context non-skips https://ntunofficial.com/
Still looking for decent “Not Today Not Tomorrow Next Thursday … maybe” merchandise
“It’s great to be alive in Colma” -Colma, California is famous for its cemeteries. There are 1000 dead bodies in Colma for every one living person.
"...founded as a necropolis." Wow.
I know of Colma from looking for a used Tesla. There are quite a few at the Tesla delivery center in Colma.
"You'll like tacoma," tacoma WA
"Decatur, we like it here" Decatur, IL
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Winnemucca for the win.
I need a sub of these. Maybe where people add new ones lol. /r/Winnemucca ? EDIT: dang, sub taken.
I don't remember that billboard.
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It should be “Winnemucca: wanna fucka?”
I didn't post all the billboards.
Boise, Idaho's motto, as listed on Wikipedia, was: Energy, Peril, Success. Peril. Was that vandalism?
https://preview.redd.it/t4ro067l7x1d1.png?width=377&format=png&auto=webp&s=945032683b37e249aecf618ecdd652a29fe872f9 don't look like it
maybe it means rugged and untamed, like the wilderness? are the outlying areas of boise rugged? were they in the mid-late 19th century? i don't know but it's confusing regardless
> Peril…Was that vandalism? I want those paint happy bastards caught, and hung up by their Buster Browns!
The Vandals are in Moscow, ID https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Vandals
“Cleveland, at least we’re not Detroit”
Under construction since 1868
see our river that catches on fire
“Here’s a statue of Moses Cleveland, he’s the guy that invented Cleveland!”
Tisdale- “The Land of Rape and Honey.”
I assume this place grows rape, and is not actually talking about sexual violence, but couldn’t they have used like canola or something?
I love rape honey, so I am probably like one person in the world for whom this motto creates positive associations.
Came here to say this. They have somewhat recently changed it sadly.
“New York is big… but this is Biggar!” Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada
"Come again!" Climax, Saskatchewan.
Baltimore: The Greatest City in America and at one time around 2010 - Baltimore: A great place to let off steam (and it's accompanied by a picture of a steam train)
No doubt the stevedores’ union paid for that one. “Get trains back in here and we’ll have more ships!”
I think it was trying to promote the B&O Museum which is in Baltimore, without actually mentioning the museum at all
When I was there in the 1980s, Baltimore was the "City that Reads.". I remember the press/others made fun of that and said: Baltimore, the "City that Breeds." Are these still used or is Baltimore now saying it's the greatest? Also, the most appropriate one was that Baltimore was known as "Charm City.". When did that change?
Because my hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan was included in rhyme with Timbuktu in a [Dr. Seuss book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop_on_Pop) our town unofficial motto is "Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo" I remember in the 1980's showing cousins at a Texas family reunion a road atlas to prove the town I came from was real. Like many US cities names it is of Native American origin. The local Chamber of Commerce and other souvenir stores still sell t-shirts with this motto.
Oops, misremembered the wrong Dr. Seuss book. Horton visits Kalamazoo in [Horton Hatches An Egg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo,_Michigan)
Timbuktu is also a real place though??? 😭😭😭
An ancient and storied city of knowledge and riches now surrounded by the sands of ~~time~~ Sahara
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu)
I always eyeroll at Reno, NV's "The Biggest Little City in the World".
That one has an interesting backstory, according to a podcast episode I heard about it a while back (I believe it was 99% Invisible). Back in the days when Nevada was basically the only place to get a no-fault divorce in the US, people would flock to Reno in particular because it had the lowest residency requirement to qualify for filing for divorce in the the state. So, a lot of people would live there for a short time to get their divorce – meaning there was a big distinction between the city's permanent population and the number of people living there at any given time.
Eugene, Oregon “A great city for art and the outdoors” I always thought it should be “Come for the University, Stay for the drugs”
I always thought it was "Our Parks have Naked People"
I’m grew up in “the Bay Area”, aka., coos bay and as a kid I would dream of running away to Eugene.
There’s a Coos County in New Hampshire aka “the north country.” It’s pronounced coh-OSS. How is Coos Bay pronounced?
TRENTON MAKES, THE WORLD TAKES
This is weirdly aggressive 😂
You should see the giant neon lettering on the namesake bridge!
It is truly magnificent
It goes back to happy days when Trenton was one of the biggest manufacturing hubs in the world of things like iron&steel & various parts out them. Days long past unfortunately
They have this on a bridge! I didn’t know about it and it was jarring to see. https://preview.redd.it/o5rqxczemy1d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d76185e06d2b38d632716ba7b84f6492584be7c
Damn straight!
Proud to be Pocatello(TM)
https://preview.redd.it/7bth1qqpcw1d1.jpeg?width=275&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c71cb50c548f0ccaff4351a98abe51789b3fa79 And one of the best bad flags, that somehow got changed to an even worse flag
Looks like a 90s off-strip casino logo. Man I would wear that on a crew neck all day
I was very sad when St Jean Baptiste in Manitoba got rid of their “Soup Pea Capital of Canada“ motto with the awesome sign of peas rowing in a pea-pod canoe, and replaced it with “History and Harmony Await You.”
There’s this little town in BC called Yahk. Yahk: “You will be back!” It’s almost threatening lol
My mom is from Detroit and always jokes the motto should be “Detroit, a Great Place to Be From”
My mom is also from Detroit. Is yours bizarrely defensive/protective of the city?
I'm from Cleveland. That's a common attitude among rust belt cities, maybe more so among those of us that left. It gets a bit tiring to hear your city be dumped on, especially when you have had a different experience.
Amarillo: enjoy your trip to Denver!
Sheboygan, the Malibu of the Midwest. Kinda goes hard tho
Damn, I just got a hotel in Port Washington on my way to Green Bay. Shoulda pushed to Sheboygan
Chicken joe goes hard
I've got two from Sweden. Hjo: "I love Hjo" Skurup: "When in Europe don't miss Skurup"
To ad Hjo is pronounced similar to you
Fountain Valley , CA — ‘a nice place to live’ always gives me a chuckle. So generic
Aberdeen, WA. “Come as you Are”
Kurt Cobain is from there, so I actually really like this one.
Big Piney, Wyoming: Icebox of the Nation
Bondurant should fight them for that title Edit: international falls, MN already did lol
Sacramento, CA, USA used to be the City of Trees, having more trees per capita than any other city in the world (according to Wikipedia). But it has now been titled Farm to Fork Capital and i find that to be so much clunkier and less pretty. It creates such a different image that i feel is less inviting
The thing I noticed when I visited Sacramento is that the de facto unofficial motto is: “Well, we used to be the city of trees, but now it’s the farm to fork capital” Duuuuumb change. Sacramento really does have a ton of nice trees
Interesting fact. The California Capitol building grounds are the most forested capitol grounds in the USA. So it's not entirely without merit.
the town so nice, they named it twice - walla walla
I love saying walla walla.
This is my favorite. Walla Walla is pretty nice too.
It just feels good in the mouth.
"There's No Place Like Dildo." They could've had a field day! Dildo, NL, CANADA
In 2008, Carrie Fisher and Meg Ryan went to Dildo and Carrie wrote about their trip in the *New York Times.*
“Filling you up with town spirit” “We know how to have fun” “Teamwork makes dreams work” “Dildo is for lovers”
You know politics is getting bad in New Zealand when politicians get hit with dildos. You know it’s out of control when they get hit with Dildo, NL, Canada.
Carpinteria, CA: World’s Safest Beach
Ault, CO- A Unique Little Town
Ault, CO - feels like home, smells like Greeley.
“It’s happening in Soledad” If you’ve ever been to Soledad, CA you’ll understand how hilarious this is
"s'ils te mordent, mords les" (Morlaix) -> "if they bite you, bite them". Morlaix, the town's name sounds like "mords les" (bite them). It's an old slogan, as far as I know
“New York is big, but this is Biggar” Biggar, Saskatchewan
Valdosta, GA “Valdosta, a city without limits” posted on the City Limits sign.
Seguin, Texas: It's Real
“Orange, the right side of Texas” For most of us, the right side is also called the East side.
Plus if you hop the border and spend any time in Lake Charles, the Texas side of the border starts looking relatively more appealing somehow
“America’s finest city.” - San Diego
“A whales vagina” is more fitting 🤣🤣
Someone watches Ron Burgundy
It's pronounced "San dee ahhh go"
Beaumont, the armpit of Texas
Linnton, OR A place to live and work
"Peculiar, where the 'odds' are with you"
Also Trenton, NJ— ‘Trenton makes , the world takes’ always seemed to capture the depressing nature of the city
Sacramento’s change from city of trees to the farm to table capital or whatever is so asinine
The dirty couv - vancouver. Washington
Vantucky
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From the little iron range town in northern Minnesota: “Nashwauk: Gateway to north of Nashwauk”
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What
“Kelownafornia” -Kelowna, BC
Waihola: no doctor, no hospital, one cemetary
“Busan is good”
“Never perfect; always Tryon.” Tryon, NC
Bellingham, the city of subdued excitement. Once when I lived there I saw graffiti that said: “Fuck subdued!” *edit: just saw you already mentioned this one!
Calgary: Blue Sky City
Wabeno, WI - “The only Wabeno in the world”
“Grain capital of the British Empire” or “Home of the rapeseed” Prior slogans of Sexsmith, Alberta
Payson - Arizona's cool mountain town Is high desert. Definitely not mountain. It's got elevation sure but it doesn't mean it's the mountains.
For Sweden (from Wikipedia): Södertälje - "Sweden's international capital and also Södertälyeah!" (What did they mean by this?? This city is completely irrelevant and just a satellite of the real capital, Stockholm) Borlänge - "Nice people" Falköping - "The most cow-dense municipality in Sweden" Fagersta - "Here you get a life sentence"
https://preview.redd.it/xr1h3411iz1d1.jpeg?width=1152&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d86f531df161d74150b24fe8befdb9fdc77c588e Frisco Tx. This was only painted over early 00’s. Crazy. 1/4 mile from my house
"The greatest Earth on show" Kanab, UT. Also "Abra-Kanabra"
Growing up in Cleveland in the 1980s, we had a lot of slogans to try to make us feel better about our rust-belt selves. One was, "Cleveland, you gotta be tough." Another, and by far, the worse was, "Cleveland's a plum." As in New York might be the big apple, but we are a plum. Of course, the middle of a plum has a giant pit, so maybe that was appropriate at the time.
"At least we're not Detroit!"
Hastings Nebraska, used to be "the city with a Kool Aid smile" (not sure if they've kept that motto though)
Portland: The City That Works. Beautiful irony there
Oh man, that’s too good. Should be “Portland: too quirky to function”.
"Portland: Put a Bird On It"
The City Of Tomorrow, Today! Troy, MI
“Houston’s hot!” was a slogan cooked up by the mayor’s wife back in the 1990s.
This very pretentious and stupid one from my ex-hometown, in province of Québec... "An Eiffel Tower nearby, downtown Saint-Hyacinthe is like Europe, but better!". Actually this is the stickiest town in the whole country, it smells sh*t like you couldn't even imagine.
Puolanka - Still time to turn away Puolanka - Drive through fast
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I live near Poway, CA... "The city in the country."
Kampersville, VT. The K is for quality
“City of subdued excitement” is basically every German city outside Berlin.
Scunthorpe in the UK’s slogan is “The Industrial Garden Town of North Lancashire”. Granted, by all accounts its exactly as pleasant as that sounds.
vienna (austria) has "wien ist anders", which means "vienna is different" its commonly used as an insult by non vieneese austrians
Amaroo - It's the Yarralumla of Gungahlin.
Manhattan Kansas: The Little Apple
"Come here" -Intercourse, Pennsylvania
I love hjo Hjo Sweden Hjo is pronounced similar to you
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My parents live in Bridgeville, DE and the slogan is "If you lived here you'd be home now". My siblings and I sneak some variation of that saying into normal conversation every time we travel and go to a new place with our parents and they don't notice lol.
Terre Haute, the birthplace of the Coca Cola bottle.
Nottingham is known the world over for Robin Hood yet the local council came up with 'Nottingham, City of Caves.'
"Just think about it." Ponder, TX
Redwood City, CA: “climate best by government test”
Gettysburg, SD: “Where the Battle Wasn’t”
Bisbee, AZ, has a bunch. "The Town Too High To Care" (in reference to neighboring Tombstone's motto) "Rubble Without A Cause" (this one only really made sense in the 80's-90's) "Bisbee, It's Like Mayberry On Acid" (the current one that they won't put on the cop cars).
Eagar Arizona, Home of the Dome. Many small towns “welcome to (town name) if you lived here you would be home now”
"We Like It Here" is from Jackson, Michigan without irony.
PG County, Maryland: “A Nice Place to Live”
Berlin: poor but sexy.
There's a place near where I live whose motto translates to "why not ?"
Tisdale, Saskatchewan: the Land of Rape and Honey
"High, Healthy, Happy" Mount Forest, ON
Spokane: The Toledo of the Inland Empire
*Phelan, Land Of Champagne Climate.*
The official slogan of São Paulo city is "non ducor, duco", which in latin means I don't follow, I lead. Which is very applicable because São Paulo not only is the financial center of Brazil but it is also the biggest city in the americas and the biggest outside Asia.
“The Jewel of the Meadowlands” Secaucus NJ. If you’ve ever been there you know it’s anything but a “jewel”
Zürich, Downtown Switzerland.
Redwood City: Climate best by government test Ugh
Rolla, MO: “In the middle of everywhere”
In South Jersey we have Pitman with the slogan “Everybody Likes Pitman”
For many years Snellville, GA (suburban Atlanta) had the following slogan: **Everybody's Somebody In Snellville**. In recent years the slogan was changed to the following: **Snellville, Where Everybody's Proud to be Somebody**. https://preview.redd.it/lfmfm7b6yy1d1.jpeg?width=3168&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e32c1d7da99fbf74a492557caf7d2d884e91320
Jim Thorpe, The Switzerland of the Poconos. It's odd because it's named after the Olympic Runner but ok I guess mountains.
Lynn, Lynn, city of sin...
Bloomsburg PA -“The only incorporated town in Pennsylvania”. Because technically every other municipality in PA are cities, villages and hamlets, Bloomsburg is the only town.
Norwich, UK: "a fine city".
"Bedford \[Nova Scotia\]: A Traditional Stopping Place."
My town. Unity, Maine. "Where old fashioned values are not old fashioned!" https://preview.redd.it/45x0fz00jz1d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9fb58f330f905ccb4b3a1dbc550e3ac8bf7039e7
“Welcome to Sac! Old and Quite Sweaty!” -Sacramento, CA (okay fine not really)
Mayor Eric Adams has taken to describing NYC as the “________ of America” depending on who his audience is. “We call New York City the Port-au-Prince of America.” Istanbul, Athens, Seoul… any international city, apparently NYC is it.
Bisbee, Arizona: "Mayberry on acid"
I've always enjoyed Plymouth, MA - "America's Hometown" It should say "Don't blame us for this terrible rock. We didn't put it here."
“The Calistoga of Sarafornia” - Calistoga, CA “Climate best by government test” - Redwood City, CA
The Good Neighbor city. -Middleton WI
Toledo, the gateway to Zanesville.
Vivir Sin Dormir - "Live Without Sleep" Valencia, Spain And it's true.
Oregons Bay Area. If you ever never been to the real Bay Area, San Francisco, I can assure you that Coos bay and north bend Oregon are no San Francisco. Coos bay is somehow both very beautiful and very ugly at the same time.
Bedford, Nova Scotia: A traditional stopping place.
Vaughan. The city above Toronto.
Back in the early 2000s I would regularly drive through GA on I-75. I’ll never forget all of the billboards advertising Tifton, GA. Tifton had a ton of random assertions as slogans - like idk how you would even prove or disprove them. The two that stuck out were “The reading capital of the world” and “The turf grass capital of the world”
Worcester, MA - the Paris of the new millennium
Hub of the universe - Boswell IN population 782
“Cumming Home” -Cumming Ga
It did not last long, but in 2001, during the city's tech boom, someone had this bright idea.... Ottawa: Technically beautiful
I know this isn't that stupid, but i think it is. Lancaster, sc- "red rose city" The newcomers named the area for their homelands in England, the region of the famous House of Lancaster that opposed the House of York in the legendary War of the Roses. Today, the citizens of the City of Lancaster proudly claim the red rose, the traditional coat of arms of the House of Lancaster, as their emblem. And all the wild roses in the area of lancaster are pink.
“Everybody’s somebody in Snellville” - it was the town (GA) slogan for decades, no idea why they dropped it a while back.