View from the ‘Bridge

There’s a great thread over at Ask MetaFilter right now about nicknames for towns and cities. Someone posted:

Do you know a derogatory nickname for a town or city?

I’m interested in renaming as a form of unofficial culture, folk culture. Sometimes the new name carries a weight of opinion - one type of renaming is to give a locality an insulting version of its real name…For instance, my hometown of Red Bank was called “Dead Bank” by its disaffected teens…I’d love to assemble some more recent name versions. I understand that some of these (”Jew York”) might not always be PC…

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