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Unless it's Azzwipe Blvd. or something comparable, I'm OK with it for the right house. We looked at a house on a street in my neighborhood that I still don't know how to pronounce the name. There are 3 different versions out there, including people on the street. That's sort of annoying but liveable for the right house.

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I couldn't live on Elm Street, I have horrible visions of Freddy!

Otherwise, I don't really care much about the street name.

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We keep eyeing this house on MLS but the street name is Woodcock Lane....I'm an immature person by nature so I think if we ever bought the house, I'd end up giggling every time I gave someone our address.

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Posted by IansMommy23

Posted by Momma2Be

We keep eyeing this house on MLS but the street name is Woodcock Lane....I'm an immature person by nature so I think if we ever bought the house, I'd end up giggling every time I gave someone our address.

yeah you would! and i'd picture Evan referring to you every time someone asks for it cause he'd be embarrassed to say it.

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We passed on a house that was on Nimrod Street. I just couldn't do it even thought hte house was pretty nice.

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our new home is on Marlboro ... at least i wont have to spell it over the phone, i can say "like the cigarettes"

TBH - i actually remember thinking to myself, i hate the name of this street

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I get a kick out of when I see one of our families members name on a street sign

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For us it actually took a house out of the running (we were kind of deciding against it anyway)...

One of the pronunciations of our last name is 'skank' (terrible, I know...we don't pronounce it that way) and a house we were looking at was on Leuce Place.

We didn't want to be The Skanks of Loose Place

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I grew up in NPT the block next to mine was D1ck Court.

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I am not going to lie, I would be disappointed if the house I loved was on a street with a terrible name. But it probably wouldn't stop me from buying it.

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It doesn't but it does...When we were looking we found a house that we like on a street that when you translate it from our language to English, it translated to male genatali. Couldn't find myself living on P*nis lane. It was too much. Thank GOd because we found the house of our dreams soon after.

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There is a street I always used to pass whose name used to make me cringe because it has the word "Gun" in it.

I always thought I don't think I could live on that street

Then my DC's became friends with a lovely girl in their class who lives on that street. I really like the mom. We were invited for a play date...

OMG!!! I was totally GA-GA over her house.
The road could be named "Your momma is a @#$%" and I'd buy that house in a second

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I live in Queens so most of our streets are numbers, but this is not something that would bother me.

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Posted by Tah-wee-ZAH

The road could be named "Your momma is a @#$%" and I'd buy that house in a second

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i had a bf in hs that lived around the corner from dyke court... i remember thinking then that i could never live on a street that had a name like that. luckily, the 2 homes that i've bought - it wasn't an issue

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We're on our second "old lady" street name.

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I think it depends, and is part of curb appeal in a way.

I grew up in Queens, where i had a number street. Then, when we moved to LI, I lived in a town house development with an undesirable address because it was off of Sunrise Hwy, so that was technically our street.

I love that I have a pretty street name now.

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Not at all to me, could really care less......if I loved the home how bad could it be? Wouldn't stop me if I loved the house for a second.

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I never really thought about the street name when looking. our current street and our last name differ by one consonant sound - I honestly didn't realize it for a few years. I think b/c DH has always made up new names for the streets we have lived (i.e. via Mallorca = via Marshmallow - and this is from a native Spanish speaker)

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i live on Dock lane. which i thought was great. easy to pronounce, spell... until my bff reminded me that if i changed the first letter to C or second letter to I, i have two options for one body part!!!

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If I loved the house, I could care less about the name of the street.

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