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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
by __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 agoThere's also Moscow, Idaho somewhere in there
- tdeck 6y agoThere's also an Ontario, CA in southern California.
- walrus01 6y agoand Ontario, Oregon
- legojoey17 6y agoAnd 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 agoThe 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...
- schoen 6y ago> I live in London Ontario, right by the Thames. Wow, I thought you probably meant the latter part as a joke until I looked it up! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_River_(Ontario) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_River_(Ontario) Thanks for the geography lesson.
- cbm-vic-20 6y agoAnd there's also New London, also on the Thames. No, not that one. Not the other one, either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_River_(Connecticut) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_River_(Connecticut) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut
- walrus01 6y agoIt's also possible to fly to Moscow, Idaho which shares an airport with Pullman, WA