Shard

Yonkers ! What a hoot. I guess that's halfway between Britain and Western Canada.

Dorothy

I got Detroit and Buffalo. Both are somewhat close to where I grew up so not too unexpected.

BristolUK

I used to have a penfriend in Yonkers, just off Broadway which stretched all the way from Manhattan.

I did the quiz. I didn't see anything definitive, I was everywhere.

BuckinghamshireBoy

New York, Yonkers and Jersey City.

Buckinghamshire didn't feature.

Rete

Now, now, don't be laughing at my hometown. Unless you are talking about a Yonkers, other than the one in New York State.

BristolUK

Did you know the Malpicas?

Rete

Interesting. Didn't give me any city names but the highlighted area was definitely lower New York State and Long Island. BTW a long sandwich that contains lettuce and tomato is called a "Wedge" in Yonkers. Why? Because Yonkers has an infamous small deli from back in the 50's and 60's across from the bakery that made the best Italian bread on Willow Street. The owners were from Italy and spoke little English. His lovely wife couldn't pronounce sand'wich' and called it sand'wedge' and thus the name stuck. Their wedges featured any type of cold cut and cheese you could imagine and was topped with a condiment of your choice, lettuce, tomato, olive oil, vinegar, oregano and basil and if you wanted, you could add banana peppers and onions. These add-ons were called "the works". My favorite was ham, provolone, genoa salami, mayo and the works.

Canadian husband thought I was talking about being drunk when I first used the word 'pissed' which means angry in the states.

Shard

Only one Yonkers as far as I know !

Rete

Thought there were one or two others. Nice to know we stand alone having this Dutch bastardized name.

Siouxie

Not quite so unique as thought - you are right, there are

Places called Yonkers in America.

Yonkers - Oklahoma - America
Yonkers - New York - America
Yonkers - Maryland - America
Yonkers - Georgia - America


Actually, the website is pretty good for finding other places with the same name https://us.geotargit.com/called.php?qcity=Hamilton (pan the map to get a world view!)
Number of places named Hamilton per country:

There are 33 places named Hamilton in America.
There are 5 places named Hamilton in Australia.
There are 2 places named Hamilton in Sierra Leone.
There is one place named Hamilton in Zimbabwe.
There is one place named Hamilton in South Africa.
There is one place named Hamilton in Suriname.
There is one place named Hamilton in New Zealand.
There is one place named Hamilton in United Kingdom.
There is one place named Hamilton in Canada.
There is one place named Hamilton in Bermuda.

BuckinghamshireBoy

Places called Yonkers in Buckinghamshire.

scrubbedexpat091

Apparently only 2 places named Vancouver. One in Canada and in the US per the link above.

78 places called San Diego with 3 in the US, but not sure if that is correct about the US. The map only shows 2 in the US. California and Texas which are the 2 that I know of.

BuckinghamshireBoy

Seriously this time, that is a good website. I've just 'wasted' an hour or so looking where-else in the world I might have been born, went to school, gotten married and similar trivia. Fun, in an old git kind of way.

caretaker

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ca...36495?hl=en-CA
That website didn't do Canada for me so they missed my home town, Crystal Springs. In the 1950's and 60's when it had a population of just over 100 people, the RCMP in Wakaw called it Little Chicago.

BuckinghamshireBoy

Interesting place. I took the co-ordinates that you posted and went for a walk. Heading to the main road I turned right and found this...





Is this to be generally considered as good value?



Late edit: Just realised the Google street view shot is quite old now so prices have likely increased...