BOMBS@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoWhen a place is called " Heights", what does "heights" mean/refer to?message-squaremessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1142file-text
arrow-up1142message-squareWhen a place is called " Heights", what does "heights" mean/refer to?BOMBS@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
For example, in Washington Heights and Golan Heights, what does “heights” mean? What does it tell us about the place?
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoSee: half the suburbs of Chicago Chicago Heights, Harwood Heights, Arlington Heights, Highland Park, Palos Heights, etc. It’s purely marketing because they’re all flat as fuck
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoYeah it’s just marketing. I think 99pi even had an episodes about it
minus-squareBraveSirZaphod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoWashington Heights in NYC, at any rate, is physically high in elevation, and it’s not a particularly fancy area at all.
minus-squareHubertManne@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agothere is a town in illinois that was called brickton because chicago brick was dug up there. Now its a hoity toity suburb called park ridge.
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See: half the suburbs of Chicago
Chicago Heights, Harwood Heights, Arlington Heights, Highland Park, Palos Heights, etc.
It’s purely marketing because they’re all flat as fuck
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Yeah it’s just marketing. I think 99pi even had an episodes about it
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Washington Heights in NYC, at any rate, is physically high in elevation, and it’s not a particularly fancy area at all.
there is a town in illinois that was called brickton because chicago brick was dug up there. Now its a hoity toity suburb called park ridge.
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