Comment on When a place is called " Heights", what does "heights" mean/refer to?
glimse@lemmy.world 11 months agoSee: half the suburbs of Chicago
Chicago Heights, Harwood Heights, Arlington Heights, Highland Park, Palos Heights, etc.
It’s purely marketing because they’re all flat as fuck
tygerprints@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yeah but "Arlington Flat as all Fuck" isn't quite as appealing as "Arlington Heights." It's like adding "Grove" or "Hills" to the end of a town to make it sound more upscale instead of "sits on top of a massive landfill."
glimse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah it’s just marketing. I think 99pi even had an episodes about it
tygerprints@kbin.social 11 months ago
It's funny because the area where I grew up was kind of a dumping ground but now, you can't find a home there for less than 10 millions, even older one story brick houses. What is so appealing about Utah that our housing prices are so astronomical? We don't have many towns with "heights" after their names!