I think places should do more to fuck with tourists. Name every restaurant in Delhi "Indian Restaurant" . Every building in London taller than one story is now the Tower. All water in Australia is Sydney Harbour.
The Triangle is the best because every city and town has roads named after the other cities and towns nearby. It’s a navigational version of Who’s On First.
All driving directions in Eastern Massachusetts that involve 3 or more turns must contain references to at least two different Dunkin' Donuts.
I think it's a state law.
Chicago traffic reporters refer to highways exclusively by name (the Eisenhower, the Kennedy, the Stevenson) but maps exclusively use numbers. Also major highways that go from downtown to Wisconsin, for example, are said to be "east/west" and vice versa
I once worked for a company compiling an online hospitality guide for the whole of Austria. One thing I learned is that EVERY town or village, no matter how small, has at least one Kirchenwirt (church pub). They may not have a church, but they do have the Kirchenwirt.
Come to the Slocan Valley, where the Slocan River flows out of Slocan Lake, by the town formerly known as Slocan City but is now just Slocan, the upper and lower Little Slocan rivers, following the Slocan Range of mountains, Slocan Park, and of course there is Slocan Village, plus roads.
Every locality has their own characteristic little navigational traps for making outsiders look dumb while trying to find their way around and I just think it’s great
It’s also why, if it’s an option, the best way to learn a new city is to get really, incredibly lost a few times, bad enough you realize on more than one occasion that you’ve unintentionally made a full circle w/o reaching your destination
Big fan of specific regional pronunciations as well. Near Chattanooga, there’s a town called Fairyland but the locals call it “Ferralynd” I guess because Fairyland is a ridiculous name.
