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There was a time where I use to fly internationally very frequently. Very use to having the manager sort out the car/flight/hotel with our travel agent - so fo

• geocrasher 6y ago
  Just be glad they didn't send you to Paris TX or Rome, GA. Edit: I forgot Memphis, TN.
  • fma 6y ago
    As a Georgia resident...we have Rome, Ga AND Athens Ga so you can take a nice trip through European cities a few hours apart. And a Gainesville, Ga not to be confused with a Gainesville, Florida. We also have a Houston County...which is not pronounced the same as Houston, Texas (it is pronounced like house-ten) Also a Decatur, GA not to be confused with Decatur, Alabama. That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
    • ThinkingGuy 6y ago
      We're also home to not one, but two Buckheads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckhead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckhead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckhead,_Georgia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckhead,_Georgia
    • quercusa 6y ago
      There's also Cairo, not to be confused with Illinois or Egypt, as well as Albany (not to be confused with NY).
      • Qworg 6y ago
        Different pronunciations - if you're going to kay-row, you're going to Illinois.
        • quercusa 6y ago
          The GA one was apparently named after the IL one, so it's pronounced the same way.
        • jsight 6y ago
          The one in Georgia is pronounced that way too.
        • perl4ever 6y ago
          Cairo-Durham in upstate NY is also kay-row.
      • pardavis 6y ago
        The one in Georgia is pronounced Al-binny. Sometimes Awwl-binn-eeh.
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    • userbinator 6y ago
      ...and of course Georgia is also a country on the other side of the world. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2603182/South-Ossetia-conflict-Concerned-US-citizen-gets-her-Georgias-confused.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/260...
    • timoth 6y ago
      The US is teeming with UK or UK-inspired place names for obvious reasons. Here's the Georgia section on the list of US places with an English name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locations_in_the_United_States_with_an_English_name#Georgia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locations_in_the_United_States... It's a pretty lengthy page and is unlikely to be exhaustive. It can be a bit of a minefield though. For example, that page lists Boston Georgia, but according to the top of this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._places_named_after_non-U.S._places#United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._places_named_afte... Boston, Georgia is named after a person, not the location in England.
    • madcaptenor 6y ago
      And Decatur isn't in Decatur County. It's in DeKalb county (and the L is silent).
  • matthewaveryusa 6y ago
    You laugh, but I had an interview with some airforce people for some scholarship money. Living in Paris France they scheduled me for a phone interview with someone in Paris Texas. Needless to say we missed each other with the timezone difference.
  • abrowne 6y ago
    Or St Petersburg, Florida. And on the way back, not to Minneapolis, KS!
  • tshaddox 6y ago
    We also had plenty of those around where I grew up in Missouri. Visitors always got a kick out of this road sign: https://goo.gl/maps/FyJZdXuKDv8LKbhm7 https://goo.gl/maps/FyJZdXuKDv8LKbhm7 Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/uW3yzWj.jpg https://i.imgur.com/uW3yzWj.jpg
• __s 6y ago
  I live in London Ontario, right by the Thames. Got hassled at customs in Netherlands being asked why my Canadian passport was issued from England. People always say they can't hear the accent when I say I'm from London (besides that time at customs they were accusing my lisp of sounding a bit English) There's also a Paris Ontario
  • smnrchrds 6y ago
    > There's also a Paris Ontario Also Lisbon, Dublin, Vienna, Seville, and Copenhagen. There used to be a Berlin, but it was renamed to Kitchener in 1916. https://i.redd.it/zhp2c11izm541.jpg https://i.redd.it/zhp2c11izm541.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_to_Kitchener_name_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_to_Kitchener_name_chang...
    • mvolfik 6y ago
      There's also Moscow, Idaho somewhere in there
  • tdeck 6y ago
    There's also an Ontario, CA in southern California.
    • walrus01 6y ago
      and Ontario, Oregon
    • legojoey17 6y ago
      And Ontario, CA has a bottled water provider called Niagara[0]. Not to be confused with Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. When I saw a bottle of Niagra water in California (as I'm from Ontario) I was unbelievably confused. [0]: https://www.niagarawater.com/ https://www.niagarawater.com/
  • vidarh 6y ago
    The US has at least a dozen Paris-es, including one or two states with two. The only reason there's not far more confusion over these things is that a lot of these places are too small to have airports...