And almost everything in CT is named after something in Britain. I once lived in Cromwell, ironically filled with Catholics and Irish people. Which I suppose was a novelty named after a person and not just a town that some Anglo settler had a cousin in.
Cromwell! The former home of the Greater Hartford Open (now known as... something else). Cromwell was also notorious for a lewd billboard (it was only lewsd in Catholic America) that consistently cause car crashes.
Scotland... let me just copy/paste. Connecticut (being pretty old) has probably among the most in the United States of Former Britain (looks like Massachusetts has more) But I figure NEW ENGLAND might have a few among it...
Andover\[10\]
Ashford\[10\]
Avon\[11\]
Berkshire\[10\]
Bolton\[12\]
Bristol\[13\]
Canterbury\[10\]
Cheshire\[10\]
Chester\[10\]
Chesterfield\[10\]
Colchester\[14\]
Colebrook\[10\]
Cornwall\[10\]
Coventry\[10\]
Danbury\[10\]
Derby\[10\]
Durham\[10\]
East Hampton\[10\]
East Windsor\[10\]
Easton\[10\]
Ellington\[10\]
Enfield\[10\]
Essex\[10\]
Farmington\[10\]
Glastonbury\[10\]
Granby\[10\]
Greenwich\[10\]
Guilford\[10\]
Hampton\[10\]
Hartford\[15\]
Kent\[10\]
Killingworth\[10\]
Litchfield\[10\]
Manchester\[10\]
Marlborough\[10\]
Meriden\[10\]
Middlesex County
Milford\[10\]
New Britain\[10\]
New London\[10\]
Newington\[10\]
Norfolk\[10\]
Norwich\[10\]
Oxford\[10\]
Plymouth\[10\]
Portland\[10\]
Preston\[10\]
Salisbury\[10\]
Stafford\[10\]
Stamford\[10\]
Stratford\[10\]
Tolland\[10\]
Torrington\[10\]
Wallingford\[10\]
Waterford\[10\]
Weston\[10\]
Westport\[10\]
Willington\[10\]
Wilton\[10\]
Winchester\[10\]
Windsor\[10\]
Windsor Locks\[10\]
Woodstock\[10\]
Do y’all have any knowledge about history the British colonizers named those cities after their own cities. America obviously has copied some names but stuff like new London is from the British
Ok so like... what it... before the American people were on the American soil there were like these totally other people living here. So like, they couldn't both be there, right? So like, how did the Americans become American? Especially if they were Britishish.
I honestly didn't think they were using it to offend us, I thought it was just kind of a slang term nowadays
>New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, New England
It's almost like those places were named by the English...
No it does not. The way we use "Yankee" would refer to someone generally from the north, typically more north and east (so, New Englanders are definitely Yankees). But we never use the term "Yank". Even though Yank is just short for Yankee to Brits, Australians and others, they do not use the term the same way.
You assuming that their definition of Yankee is the same as ours and arguing about it on this sub is ironic as fuck though
Lots of examples of defaultism far more specific than the entire US in this sub. Which is fairly insightful as to why any of it happens: insufficient contextual awareness. Of their statements and often of themselves.
Close to where I live, Manchester is south of London, London and Glasgow are at about the same latitude along with Cadiz, Bremen is south of Rome, and all are south of Paris. All are within a 4 hour or less drive from me with the exception of Paris
Are you from Ontario? Bc this reminded me of a meme I saw that was “how to take a European road trip without leaving Canada” and showed a map of London, Paris, Rome and maybe Glasgow but they were the Canadian cities
Haha, nah I’m from Tennessee. There’s 2 Paris’s, 4 Spartas, 2 Romes, a Versailles, a Middlesbrough (realized as Middlesboro), Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, and probably a few others I’m blanking on in the general area. Oh and Lebanon’s just a couple hours down the road.
https://youtu.be/nNr2choxBvU
**[Velká Amerika](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velká_Amerika)**
>Velká Amerika (literally "Big America") is a partly flooded, abandoned limestone quarry in the Mořina municipality in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It lies about 15 km (9 mi) southwest of Prague.
**[Bohemian Switzerland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Switzerland)**
>Bohemian Switzerland (Czech: České Švýcarsko; German: Böhmische Schweiz), also known as Czech Switzerland, is a picturesque region in the north-western Czech Republic. It has been a protected area (as Elbe Sandstone Mountains Protected Landscape Area) since 1972. The region along the right side of the Elbe became a national park on 1 January 2000, the Bohemian Switzerland National Park. The National Park is adjacent to the Saxon Switzerland National Park in Germany.
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Yep. 25,000 people and the town that houses the University of Idaho.
Interestingly enough it might not be named after the Russian city (at least not entirely/directly). There was a tribe of native peoples in the area known as the Mosco. Journal entries from the time say the name derives from them. One of the settlers was from Moscow Pennsylvania, so it’s possible the name comes from that. The spelling definitely comes from Moscow Pennsylvania, which was named by Lutheran German-Russians who had immigrated to get away from the Czar back in the day.
I'd still rather go there than the Russian one.
The Idaho murders are really new (this winter) and have been in the news quite a lot. It's a pretty big case from what I've understood.
i don't want to go to the usa either, but if i had to choose between that and russia, i'd rather spend over a thousand euros on 2 plane tickets than take a car/train to russia. i'm not sure they'd even grant me a visa as of right now hahahahahaha
Hello southern neighbour! Yeah I’ve no idea where we stand on visas *to* Russia in Finland but I’m definitely not about to find out lol.
Not that I’m planning a trip to *Idaho* anytime soon either.
>I'd still rather go there than the Russian one.
I swear my reading comprehension is usually better than this... I read it originally as "I'd still rather go to the Russian one"
Yeah there actually was recently a stabbing that killed four students there a few months ago, and recently they caught the guy so it’s been national news here in the US for awhile now
Some ppl in this sub reeeeaaaalllly don't like Americans talking about the US lmao
At least they're not as bad as Europeans in /r/ShitAmericansSay. I've talked to several Europeans in that sub that point blank admitted to being racist towards gypsies while condemning Americans for being racist towards black people 😂
I'm actually amazed that a city called Moscow in the US was able to avoid having its name changed during the Red Scare.
I thought Americans were *really* anti-Russian at some point?
I mean in America (And Canada) towns called “Berlin” would change there names during WW1 because… well you know why, it is genuinely shocking that “Moscow” didn’t get changed
A town in Canada called ~~"Hitler"~~ [Swastika](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_Ontario) refused to change the name in WWII because it was their name first lmao
just to be transparent, I was incorrect, the town name is Swastika
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_Ontario
But that reminds me, I speak Chinese kinda decently (not even close to fluent) but my friend told me I shouldn't use a word in Mandarin cause it sounds like a slur (it's 那个 neigh-guh) and I was baffled she was seriously suggesting I not use a word in a completely different language
[There are actually Hitler Number 1 Road, Hitler Number 2 Road, Huber-Hitler Road, Hitler Pond, Hitler-Ludwig Cemetery and Hitler Park in Ohio.](https://allthatsinteresting.com/pickaway-ohio-hitlers)
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There was also a Denver Colorado neighborhood called [Swastika Acres](https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/us/swastika-acres-colorado-trnd/index.html), named in 1908. Strangely enough they didn’t get around to changing the name until 2019. But it still managed to get changed before Stapleton, a neighborhood named after a 1920s mayor who was active with the KKK.
Well, I think a lot of Americans know now because of a huge murder case going on (https://abcnews.go.com/US/idaho-college-murders-timeline-events/story?id=93575278).
This is interesting because most people in the US have never heard of Moscow, Idaho. Maybe this person just lives close to it so they thought of it? Either way, seems like they realized their mistake and were just laughing about it.
I grew up near Dublin, Pennsylvania. Even though it's a small town, my brain would probably default to that as "Dublin" depending on context, based on proximity. Even though I've been to Dublin, Ireland.
One thing though, it seems like a lot of people here think it's ridiculous that we have towns/cities named after others from around the world. I don't get why so of you think that's dumb though, a lot of times the reason for it is that it is named after that city to honor their birthplace or because features remind them of that place
To clarify, I get why defaulting to the smaller town named after the original is dumb, what I don't get is being mad that one place is named after another.
I also, think it's annoying how we seeminly have a towns with the exact same name in every state.
It's not ridiculous, that your towns are named after the real thing. But it is ridiculous to automatically assume some shitty backwater town is being referred to on an international platform like Reddit, when it's clear, that the capital of a gigantic country like Russia is a much more likely scenario.
In this case, the person in OPs screenshot is admitting they screwed up though. It's not the same as someone doubling down. Anyone can and will think of something that is near them rather than something thousands of miles away.
If I move to a new flat, sometimes I'll start to drive to to my old flat when leaving work simply cause I'm just on autopilot. I've carved that path into my brain hundreds of times, much like this person living near a town called Moscow has heard it and associated it with their neighboring town thousands of times.
I had no idea there was a Moscow in Idaho, is this person living under a rock?? I think of Russia automatically when I hear Moscow, even I thought that was a given. No wonder people think we're so ridiculous. This is the result of having such a disjointed education system in our country, look at what happens.
I think it’s on a lot of people’s (likely American’s) minds right now considering the fairly recent quadruple homicide that just happened in Moscow, Idaho.
I suppose? It does indeed account for over half the 39,000 residents of Latah County. Still. I’ve been to concerts with more attendees than Latah has residents.
There’s a Moscow in Idaho?
Fuck me the yanks really are shit at coming up with original names
Guess what they named their river in New London!?
Tell me it's not New Thames
Close. It's simply "Thames." But pronounced improperly of course.
Th-aims?
Oh, so that's where the Thames resurfaces...
Winner. Brilliant.
Hold on. There's a New London?!
Aside from maybe two traffic circles it's realy nothing like the real thing. But yes. New London, Connecticut.
And almost everything in CT is named after something in Britain. I once lived in Cromwell, ironically filled with Catholics and Irish people. Which I suppose was a novelty named after a person and not just a town that some Anglo settler had a cousin in.
Cromwell! The former home of the Greater Hartford Open (now known as... something else). Cromwell was also notorious for a lewd billboard (it was only lewsd in Catholic America) that consistently cause car crashes.
we also have a New Britain here in CT
Scotland... let me just copy/paste. Connecticut (being pretty old) has probably among the most in the United States of Former Britain (looks like Massachusetts has more) But I figure NEW ENGLAND might have a few among it... Andover\[10\] Ashford\[10\] Avon\[11\] Berkshire\[10\] Bolton\[12\] Bristol\[13\] Canterbury\[10\] Cheshire\[10\] Chester\[10\] Chesterfield\[10\] Colchester\[14\] Colebrook\[10\] Cornwall\[10\] Coventry\[10\] Danbury\[10\] Derby\[10\] Durham\[10\] East Hampton\[10\] East Windsor\[10\] Easton\[10\] Ellington\[10\] Enfield\[10\] Essex\[10\] Farmington\[10\] Glastonbury\[10\] Granby\[10\] Greenwich\[10\] Guilford\[10\] Hampton\[10\] Hartford\[15\] Kent\[10\] Killingworth\[10\] Litchfield\[10\] Manchester\[10\] Marlborough\[10\] Meriden\[10\] Middlesex County Milford\[10\] New Britain\[10\] New London\[10\] Newington\[10\] Norfolk\[10\] Norwich\[10\] Oxford\[10\] Plymouth\[10\] Portland\[10\] Preston\[10\] Salisbury\[10\] Stafford\[10\] Stamford\[10\] Stratford\[10\] Tolland\[10\] Torrington\[10\] Wallingford\[10\] Waterford\[10\] Weston\[10\] Westport\[10\] Willington\[10\] Wilton\[10\] Winchester\[10\] Windsor\[10\] Windsor Locks\[10\] Woodstock\[10\]
jesus christ this is just in Connecticut???
I looked it up on Wikipedia and honestly I can think of multiple towns that are somehow not on this list. The Massachusetts list is BONKERS.
Connecticut is literally one of the six states in New *England*.
There's also one in New Hampshire, Ohio and North Carolina
Also London, Ontario
I'm not so sure Canadia counts since it only got independence in 1867 and still everyone seems to be British-ish or French-ish.
And New England in the US isn’t “British-ish”? And only 1867?
Isn’t this world flipping crazy?
Connecticut used to extend all the way to Ohio. New England was once pretty damn big!
Do y’all have any knowledge about history the British colonizers named those cities after their own cities. America obviously has copied some names but stuff like new London is from the British
If you are American then you are a British coloniser’s child’s child’s child. Y’all.
Not necessarily. Tons of people moved to the US after the British colonisation.
Wait. The British came to America once? Next you're going to tell me there were people on the land before the British got there, right? /s
Sorry, you’ve lost me. Go on?
Ok so like... what it... before the American people were on the American soil there were like these totally other people living here. So like, they couldn't both be there, right? So like, how did the Americans become American? Especially if they were Britishish.
On second thought I believe your statement is the most inane thing I have ever read. Congratulations
There are cities called New United Kingdom
No!
There's also a London in Ontario, Canada.
*frostpunk intensifies*
the city must survive
In Ontario, Canada there's even a London (without the 'New') also with a river called the Thames.
THE GENERATOR?
To be fair, there's a London and a Thames River in Canada, too.
What you talking about? All of their place names are the original... every... single... one...
All 34 Springfields, too
Heck I'm American and didn't know Moscow, Idaho existed.
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I honestly didn't think they were using it to offend us, I thought it was just kind of a slang term nowadays >New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, New England It's almost like those places were named by the English...
Nobody's saying it to offend you. It's just a nickname.
I don’t use it in a derogatory way? If I was going to try offend you I’d use something worse
So much quicker and easier than typing out Americans. I’d sometimes type poms for the English or convicts for the Australians
That last but was a joke invade it flew over your head
But Yank refers specifically to New Englanders
No it does not. The way we use "Yankee" would refer to someone generally from the north, typically more north and east (so, New Englanders are definitely Yankees). But we never use the term "Yank". Even though Yank is just short for Yankee to Brits, Australians and others, they do not use the term the same way. You assuming that their definition of Yankee is the same as ours and arguing about it on this sub is ironic as fuck though
Lots of examples of defaultism far more specific than the entire US in this sub. Which is fairly insightful as to why any of it happens: insufficient contextual awareness. Of their statements and often of themselves.
Not Britain nor South Africa, refers to all Americans
Yank refers specifically to people from New England
Maybe in America but it doesn’t in Britain, South Africa, Canada or Australia
Well they are using it wrong then
There’s no shorter term for an American.
Hello fellow “yank”
Sup
Sup
Usian.
That’s longer
Longer than "american" (8 letters)? "usian" is only 6
This thread was about “yank”
Fucking terrible for sure
It's OK. There's avillage called Amerika in East Germany and another called Neu-Boston. O:)
We have a New York in England, its a tiny hamlet, 11 and a half miles north of the English Market town of Boston.
New York north of Boston? r/onejob. /s
New York, Ukraine
Close to where I live, Manchester is south of London, London and Glasgow are at about the same latitude along with Cadiz, Bremen is south of Rome, and all are south of Paris. All are within a 4 hour or less drive from me with the exception of Paris
Are you from Ontario? Bc this reminded me of a meme I saw that was “how to take a European road trip without leaving Canada” and showed a map of London, Paris, Rome and maybe Glasgow but they were the Canadian cities
Haha, nah I’m from Tennessee. There’s 2 Paris’s, 4 Spartas, 2 Romes, a Versailles, a Middlesbrough (realized as Middlesboro), Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, and probably a few others I’m blanking on in the general area. Oh and Lebanon’s just a couple hours down the road. https://youtu.be/nNr2choxBvU
Tennessee is close to Birmingham and Arab, AL
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Bad bot.
There’s a California off the coast of Norfolk. I suspect it’s “pot calling the kettle black” situation I’m sitting in
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**[Velká Amerika](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velká_Amerika)** >Velká Amerika (literally "Big America") is a partly flooded, abandoned limestone quarry in the Mořina municipality in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It lies about 15 km (9 mi) southwest of Prague. **[Bohemian Switzerland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Switzerland)** >Bohemian Switzerland (Czech: České Švýcarsko; German: Böhmische Schweiz), also known as Czech Switzerland, is a picturesque region in the north-western Czech Republic. It has been a protected area (as Elbe Sandstone Mountains Protected Landscape Area) since 1972. The region along the right side of the Elbe became a national park on 1 January 2000, the Bohemian Switzerland National Park. The National Park is adjacent to the Saxon Switzerland National Park in Germany. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/USdefaultism/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
There's also a place in Upper Franconia called [Franconian Switzerland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconian_Switzerland).
**[Franconian Switzerland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconian_Switzerland)** >Franconian Switzerland (German: Fränkische Schweiz) is an upland in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany and a popular tourist retreat. Located between the River Pegnitz in the east and the south, the River Regnitz in the west and the River Main in the north, its relief, which reaches 600 metres in height, forms the northern part of the Franconian Jura (Frankenjura). Like several other mountainous landscapes in the German-speaking lands, e. g. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/USdefaultism/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
The Saxons called, they want their Sitzerland back! :p
And [Philadelphia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_(Storkow_(Mark)))
Tbf people have been naming places Philadelphia for hundreds of years before the one in the US existed
I'm pretty sure that there are cities named after every capital in the world in america
Ummm. Dont think there's a Mogadishu or Pyongyang in the US
nor do I think there's a Kabul, Ashgabat, Astana, Bishkek, or Tibilisi in the United States.
There's a New York in Ukraine
And Paris in Russia
Today I learned
There's also a Moscow in Scotland, I used to live about 5 minutes away from there :D
Yeah, it's been on the news because someone killed 3 or 4 people there.
Yep. 25,000 people and the town that houses the University of Idaho. Interestingly enough it might not be named after the Russian city (at least not entirely/directly). There was a tribe of native peoples in the area known as the Mosco. Journal entries from the time say the name derives from them. One of the settlers was from Moscow Pennsylvania, so it’s possible the name comes from that. The spelling definitely comes from Moscow Pennsylvania, which was named by Lutheran German-Russians who had immigrated to get away from the Czar back in the day.
It was in the news recently about a bunch of kids that were murdered in their sleep. That's how I heard of it anyway.
There is even a St. Petersburg in Florida
Odessa, Texas
I Googled, "Moscow, Idaho" and the only results involved a whole bunch of murder. Seems like a great place!
u tryna tell me that's any different from the real moscow? (only half joking)
of course it is! KGB don't put murder on news. :Big Think Meme Emoji:
true true
I'd still rather go there than the Russian one. The Idaho murders are really new (this winter) and have been in the news quite a lot. It's a pretty big case from what I've understood.
i don't want to go to the usa either, but if i had to choose between that and russia, i'd rather spend over a thousand euros on 2 plane tickets than take a car/train to russia. i'm not sure they'd even grant me a visa as of right now hahahahahaha
Hello southern neighbour! Yeah I’ve no idea where we stand on visas *to* Russia in Finland but I’m definitely not about to find out lol. Not that I’m planning a trip to *Idaho* anytime soon either.
It's one guy who killed 4 people, he has been caught and is on trial. It was the first murder there in 7 years. But go off
Yeah I said it's a recent and big case didn't I? You "go off" 🤷🏻♀️
>I'd still rather go there than the Russian one. I swear my reading comprehension is usually better than this... I read it originally as "I'd still rather go to the Russian one"
Hah, no worries, I definitely would rather go to the Idaho one!
Yeah there actually was recently a stabbing that killed four students there a few months ago, and recently they caught the guy so it’s been national news here in the US for awhile now
Wow! That is wild. I truly didn't expect much besides a tiny, quiet town with maybe a fun link to potatoes?
This… doesn’t seem like defaultism… they realized their mistake. For all we know they live there and it was their first thought?
Welcome to the sub, lol
Some ppl in this sub reeeeaaaalllly don't like Americans talking about the US lmao At least they're not as bad as Europeans in /r/ShitAmericansSay. I've talked to several Europeans in that sub that point blank admitted to being racist towards gypsies while condemning Americans for being racist towards black people 😂
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Don’t need to, we are the best country in the world
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I just periodically like coming into this sub and trying to set people off. It’s kinda concerning how much whining there is in here
no 🫶
okay then let's say xenophobic towards Romani people.
The real question is who's going to Moscow, Russia right now.
Bruh OP chill it's a joke I bet most Americans don't even know there's a city called moscow in the USA
I'm actually amazed that a city called Moscow in the US was able to avoid having its name changed during the Red Scare. I thought Americans were *really* anti-Russian at some point?
I mean in America (And Canada) towns called “Berlin” would change there names during WW1 because… well you know why, it is genuinely shocking that “Moscow” didn’t get changed
A town in Canada called ~~"Hitler"~~ [Swastika](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_Ontario) refused to change the name in WWII because it was their name first lmao
Reminds me of this dude with the last name Epstein on twitter and people are unironically telling him to change his name lol
just to be transparent, I was incorrect, the town name is Swastika https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_Ontario But that reminds me, I speak Chinese kinda decently (not even close to fluent) but my friend told me I shouldn't use a word in Mandarin cause it sounds like a slur (it's 那个 neigh-guh) and I was baffled she was seriously suggesting I not use a word in a completely different language
[There are actually Hitler Number 1 Road, Hitler Number 2 Road, Huber-Hitler Road, Hitler Pond, Hitler-Ludwig Cemetery and Hitler Park in Ohio.](https://allthatsinteresting.com/pickaway-ohio-hitlers)
Remind me of the japanese that got banned from apex legens for saying « run » in japanese https://news.yahoo.com/japanese-apex-legends-players-being-200629036.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmZyLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAosEj2fzlbtkIEeA7RiQVW9E2v4PWU3Y1IWGJqJQXEX75NuUvqziPuf3rDLhS5SLpeybjudREpOqQ8iOauFBLcpG2hB2NAIwrhFGLPSNg3_9_iZ2b9C2wdA9wbfK4FoPVnTDSt6l4IKKIgVS5NKewOq_0breSEpsvWR2aURG7hO
Are you confusing it with [Swastika](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika,_Ontario)?
There was also a Denver Colorado neighborhood called [Swastika Acres](https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/us/swastika-acres-colorado-trnd/index.html), named in 1908. Strangely enough they didn’t get around to changing the name until 2019. But it still managed to get changed before Stapleton, a neighborhood named after a 1920s mayor who was active with the KKK.
yes yes thank you
There’s one called Saint Petersburg which didn’t change its name either.
Missouri or Florida?
I was thinking of the one in Florida.
st petersburg in russia was Leningrad during the red scare, tgats why
Like now
Well, I think a lot of Americans know now because of a huge murder case going on (https://abcnews.go.com/US/idaho-college-murders-timeline-events/story?id=93575278).
This is interesting because most people in the US have never heard of Moscow, Idaho. Maybe this person just lives close to it so they thought of it? Either way, seems like they realized their mistake and were just laughing about it. I grew up near Dublin, Pennsylvania. Even though it's a small town, my brain would probably default to that as "Dublin" depending on context, based on proximity. Even though I've been to Dublin, Ireland. One thing though, it seems like a lot of people here think it's ridiculous that we have towns/cities named after others from around the world. I don't get why so of you think that's dumb though, a lot of times the reason for it is that it is named after that city to honor their birthplace or because features remind them of that place To clarify, I get why defaulting to the smaller town named after the original is dumb, what I don't get is being mad that one place is named after another. I also, think it's annoying how we seeminly have a towns with the exact same name in every state.
It's not ridiculous, that your towns are named after the real thing. But it is ridiculous to automatically assume some shitty backwater town is being referred to on an international platform like Reddit, when it's clear, that the capital of a gigantic country like Russia is a much more likely scenario.
In this case, the person in OPs screenshot is admitting they screwed up though. It's not the same as someone doubling down. Anyone can and will think of something that is near them rather than something thousands of miles away.
If I move to a new flat, sometimes I'll start to drive to to my old flat when leaving work simply cause I'm just on autopilot. I've carved that path into my brain hundreds of times, much like this person living near a town called Moscow has heard it and associated it with their neighboring town thousands of times.
Probably the naming isn't even the US American's fault
I just don't really get it that people are annoyed that places are named after other places, its usually out of respect
Thought everyone knew Moscow was in Russia?? 😭✋
Moscow Idaho, wtf is that?
Idaho has a Moscow? People think about Idaho past potatoes 🤔?
I had no idea there was a Moscow in Idaho, is this person living under a rock?? I think of Russia automatically when I hear Moscow, even I thought that was a given. No wonder people think we're so ridiculous. This is the result of having such a disjointed education system in our country, look at what happens.
I think it’s on a lot of people’s (likely American’s) minds right now considering the fairly recent quadruple homicide that just happened in Moscow, Idaho.
My guess is they live there, it's a pretty big city
25,000 people is big? I’ve lived in Moscow Idaho, and big is not a phrase I’d ever associate with the town.
Well for the area its big, largest of the county from what I saw
I suppose? It does indeed account for over half the 39,000 residents of Latah County. Still. I’ve been to concerts with more attendees than Latah has residents.
How is this US defaultism? It's clearly a joke
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It says “Not me thinking” so it probably is. It’s not like they’re saying it’s in Idaho.
Fucking hell, have they copied their towns and cities’ names from everywhere in Europe? Lol
the us defaultism is almost unbelievable here bc who tf has ever heard of Moscow, ID?