Inspiration
diverging, 
People have always had a lack of creativity.
When the Greeks were settling around the Mediterranean they founded many ‘New Cities’, (Neapolis). One remained a ‘new city’ for long enough for the name to evolve to Naples.
The Phoenicians did the same, in their language ‘New City’ was Qart Hadasht, we now call it Carthage. One of the Carthages in what is now Spain was conquered by Rome and to differentiate it from the Capital of the Carthaginians they called it Carthago Nova, essentially New New City.
eating3645, There’s something beautiful about ancient cities being named “new city”
ArcaneSlime, Uhhh, buddy? Most of those were Europeans born in “city name” who moved and founded “new city name” because they were born in “city name.” This is a you thing.
zeppo, 
Europeans named the towns. People From Europe.
moon, Stop writing New before everything and just add a 2 at the end
vaultdweller013, Instructions unclear. Named 8 cities Bismark.
buzz86us, Come to NY… we have Florida, and Poland within 50 miles of each other.
TheControlled, I mean, it’s a bunch of immigrants naming things after their home. Or it’s a bunch colonists claiming things… For their home.
Agent641, Big Jian Yang energy
milicent_bystandr, (edited ) Laughs in Newcastle, Newmarket, Newport, Newbury, Newton and Newspaper
Rubanski, My hamster lives in Newspaper!
sighofannoyance, 
I guess every crap he takes is newsworthy!
BastingChemina, I think there is above 50 cities named “Villeneuve” in France (literraly meaning "New City)
Shapillon, Or Villefranche which means it was exempted from taxes.
Or how there are so many “St Something” that they had to add “de somewhere” to disambiguate lmao.
I’ve lived in 3 different places all named St Etienne.
corsicanguppy, There are 15 cities in the world named Paris.
14 of them are in America.
ILikeBoobies, The other is in Canada
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E, There is one in Russia. So i conclude the number above is bullshit
SpaceCadet, 
I believe there’s one in France too.
CurlyMoustache, 
So it is to avoid confusion when they write “PARIS, FRANCE” in films when they show the Eiffel tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Notre-Dame and the Louvre in establishing shots. Good to know 👍
oce, Yeah, who knows what monument they have replicated again in Texas.
Couldbealeotard, 
I’m certain there’s one in Australia. There’s an Australian movie called “the cars that ate Paris” set in a remote Aussie town
RagingRobot, It’s weird they went with new instead of better. Maybe they weren’t very optimistic.
NoSpiritAnimal, 
Better York
Less Crappy Orleans
Marginally Improved Haven
InternetCitizen2, Or more accurately Great Britain should just be OK Britain.
vaultdweller013, (edited ) Lets be honest here, great Britain should be called below standard Britain.
Pipoca, Sometimes in colonial America, people named things in honor a Duke who funded/controlled the place.
For example, after NY was captured from the Dutch, it was a proprietary colony of the Duke of York.
Better York sounds like it’s just antagonistic towards the guy.
edgemaster72, 
Still better than I’d do naming things. It’d just be Landplace 1, Landplace 2, etc.
meliaesc, The City of Townsville
ILikeBoobies, Australia or Powerpuff Girls?
meliaesc, Never Australia.
kamen, (edited ) -This road
-That road
ornery_chemist, But obviously pronounced wrong.
New Prague, MN, for example (/nu pɹeɪg/)
Exslash, I literally just used new prague as an example to my fiance over Christmas, about how we are super unoriginal in naming places in this country. Also hello fellow Minnesotan.
TimewornTraveler, Praha
son_named_bort, And then there’s the Amish, who gave their towns names like Intercourse and Bird in Hand.
Spyker, Let us not forget Blue Ball, Virginville, Balls Mills, and Climax.
platypus_plumba, I think they’re trying to send a message.
Honytawk, Well, what else can they do in the evening?
leraje, 
That’s a pub name in the UK.
Bird In Hand, that is. Intercourse is what happens in the pub toilets.
samus12345, 
No New Shitterton, though. :(
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