I live in Furniture City (or Beer City)? What is your hometown and what’s it known as?

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  2. Navy yard city I suppose. There’s literally a place named that (although it’s not technically in the city).

  3. ‘The Air Capital of the World.” Boeing, Spirit Aerosystems, Raytheon, Learjet, Airbus, all have manufacturing hubs here, we’ve got tons of aerospace engineering and manufacturing contractors, McConnell Airforce Base, and our local college (Wichita State University) has a substantial and renowned aerospace engineering program.

  7. Both the “cradle of the Confederacy” and “birthplace of the civil rights movement”.

  8. Whiskey city. We sit on top of a pure aquifer that at one time served 13 distilleries, the most well known is Seagrams. My 2 grandfathers both worked 45 years there before retiring, and many other family and friends did too.

  10. I grew up in the City of Brotherly Love (and sisterly affection). Now I live in a town known for groves of willows.

  11. I live in Pine Bush, it’s the UFO sightings capital of the World (allegedly).

    We have an ufo street festival every year and a cute little paranormal “museum” that’s nice to go through once.

  15. Clutch city, slab city, syrup city, spool city, bayou city, and space city.

  17. They call Ann Arbor tree town, but let’s be honest it’s only known for the University and having the 3rd largest stadium In the world

  19. The Steel City

    There are still a few mills in the region but the industry certainly doesn’t dominate our present the way it did our past.

  20. Satellite Beach.. named during the space boom. And we are the Space coast. Or area code is actually 321 to go along with everything else Space related.

  24. Boulder, CO — home of mountains, marijuana, college, hippies, and entitled Karens. The only place I know where there’s regularly a line to get into the Whole Foods (whole paycheck, anyone?) parking lot and a battle for any parking spot at all.

  25. I’m from a small crappy Southeast Texas town. From Houston into Louisiana, oil refineries for as far as the eye can see.

    The region is known as (in environmental law circles) ‘Cancer Alley’.

  26. The Birthplace of the Nation

    The City of Brotherly Love

    The city where It’s Always Sunny

  27. Stockton CA is mud city or mudville or mud town. The city is likened to mud, and I think that’s an accurate analogy. There was a Stockton rapper who made a song called “swerving through the mud” by lildaddex that shows what Stockton is all about fairly well.

  29. Grew up in The Endurance Capital of the World. Our town was the end point for some major races. The Tevis Cup which is a 100 mile equestrian race from Palisades Tahoe (formerly Squaw Valley) and ending in Auburn. The Western States is a similar 100 mile race from the same start point and ended in our high school track. We used to drive through the neighbor hood just near the finish line and cheer on the runners.

  30. (Thank you reddit for switching to the wrong thread and making me look like a fool.)

    Baltimore. Officially, Charm City, but there were previous attempts at other slogans such as “The City That Reads”, which around here of course got turned into “the city that bleeds”.

  39. Mines known as “not the Denver in Colorado” it’s also sometimes called “The Mile Wide City”

  42. I live in aurora il. The city of lights. The first city in The us to USA się electric lights to publiczny light The Enter city.
    Used to live in Chicago, the Windy City or the city of broad shoulders

  43. Bomb city, Amarillo, tx

    It’s due to Pantex being out here and the nuclear weapons

    Also called yellow City because Amarillo is Spanish for yellow

  45. My wife grew up in the Pumpkin Capital of the World. About 85% of the world’s canned pumpkin is from there. Morton, IL

  46. * City of Good Neighbors
    * Queen City of the Lakes
    * Nickel City (names after the coin)

    Less common:

    * Radial City (for our radial street grid)
    * City of No Illusions
    * City of Light (First US city to have access to electricity at scale)
    * City in the Trees

    Buffalo is known for:

    * Wings
    * Presidential History
    * War of 1812/Erie Canal/Fenian Raids/Electricity
    * Fischer Price, New Era Caps, Cool Whip, M&T Bank, Modern A/C, Pacemaker, Puzzles, Kan Jam, Cheerios
    * Largest public university in NYS
    * Third tallest city hall, second most FLW buildings, park system by Olmsted

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