Your city's nickname

[Harke the Boeotarch]

For such a small population of Jews, it's amazing how Yiddish has worked its way into the Dutch language.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-amsterdams-beloved-nickname-is-a-centuries-old-yiddish-word-mokum/

It was a relatively small population of Jews after a certain brezel-baking neighbour-country of ours decided to deport over 70% to their place.

Then, afterwards, many of those few that returned departed for the newly formed nation of Israel.

 

[Charon]

TeeJay.

 

[Negasta]

What an amazingly beautiful tree!

It looks like just any other tree most of the year, but from late September to October, it looks like somebody painted the whole place purple.

 

[gsdx]

It looks like just any other tree most of the year, but from late September to October, it looks like somebody painted the whole place purple.

We have streets lined with red maple trees (leaves are dark burgundy). Your streets are purple whereas ours are red.

I had a friend in SA. She and her family lived just north of Jo-burg. I lost touch with them about 15 years ago when they moved back to England. She never mentioned the Jacaranda.

 

[nycguydowntown]

pretty well known around the world--The Big Apple.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

Antwerpen, Belgium is now in much of the country as simply "The City". If I go to Brussels or Ostend and say I lived in THE city they will understand it's Antwerp. And I wasn't born there, so I don't have the accent.
Marrakesh, where I moved later, has a more specific nickname. It's the Red City, just as Chefchaouen is the Blue City (or town, rather). Madrid, where I lived the longest of all, has many nicknames but my favorite is the dry "corte y villa" meaning royal court and small town. Madrid never acquired the official town of city (ciudad) and a lot of people claim it still has a small-town feel. It's true up to a point, but then you can have the same feeling in a lot of big cities.

 

[FPNY]

Yonkers, the city on seven hills and nothing is on the level...also once known as the City of Gracious Living..

 

[medic1]

Auld Reekie.

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/edinburgh-called-auld-reekie/

And for Glasgow, the razor boys, for their penchant to carry open bladed barbers blades.

 

[Thad1527]

The City of Brotherly Love, the Cradle of Liberty...and we have a sound.

 

[Gussss]

Birmingham, Alabama

"The Magic City"

"The growth from 100 persons in 1865, to a metropolitan area of just over 250,000 people in 1878 was considered magical, therefore ‘Birmingham The Magic City’."

 

[gsdx]

Thanks for all the responses, guys. I never expected such a response, but it truly has be informative and entertaining.

@Gussss - What caused the sudden growth?

 

[jaynoel]

The tiny redneck town I am in has no nickname. (Though I sometimes refer to it as "Shitsville".)
The people here are are too dull and unimaginative to come up with anythung clever or interesting.

 

[backagain]

Boston, Massachusetts = Bean town

 

[Gussss]

Thanks for all the responses, guys. I never expected such a response, but it truly has be informative and entertaining.

@Gussss - What caused the sudden growth?

Because it was founded in the Jones Valley, the only place on Earth where large deposits of the three raw materials needed to make iron—coal, iron ore, and limestone—existed close together. It became the second largest producer of iron, after Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Actually, another nickname for Birmingham is "The Pittsburgh of the South".

 

[gsdx]

^ Thanks for that. I have learnt something new already an I haven't even had my morning coffee yet.