Inspiration
Agent641, Big Jian Yang energy
EmperorHenry, 
Ah yes…New Walla Walla, New Nimrod. New Nenana, New Miami
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.
ILikeBoobies, You’re thinking of Denmark
CurlyMoustache, 
I doubt it…
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.
bizarrocullen, Fun fact: Britain was called great to differentiate it from ‘little’ or ‘lesser’ Britain, with theories go between Ireland and Brittany
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
xX_fnord_Xx, Don’t forget underscores for easier parsing! Landplace_1, Landplace_2…
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.
Soku, Just googled quickly out of interest. There’s 14 pubs called Bird in Hand within 30 miles from my location, plus 2 restaurants and one bus stop with the same name.
leraje, A bus stop? Is it right outside the local?
Soku, There’s a pub 0.3 miles from the bus stop. I suppose better than to name the stop “Nisa local” or “shopnumber5”.
samus12345, 
No New Shitterton, though. :(
Pickle_Jr, Meanwhile, the Americans that didn’t even put “new” in front of the city name and just called it Paris, Texas or some shit. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/165709ef-453f-4dfb-b697-b02de8f9ba48.png
jol, It must be horrible living there. You search for weather or news and get the more popular counterpart.
Anticorp, That’s a completely original name! Do you think Texans know anything about France?
AnUnusualRelic, (edited ) 
Isn’t it named after a girl in a sex tape?
Anticorp, Yes actually. Paris Motel or something like that.
Steve, Greetings from Naples Florida
Transporter_Room_3, 
I can visit almost every continent without even leaving my state!
hobovision, London, Ontario is one of the worst ones, and it’s not even in the US.
Viking_Hippie, No new Scunthorpe though, for some reason 🤔
DumbAceDragon, (edited ) 
To be fair, have you ever been to regular York? I have, it sucked. New York is a slight to moderate improvement.
Nfamwap, For real? York is one of England’s most historically important cities. And a really nice city, too. What sucked about it?
Kusimulkku, Probably it being in England
SuddenDownpour,
FarFarAway, (edited ) Explain new Mexico then. /s
Ultragramps, 
This may have been the question that the aliens wanted answered, when they landed there.
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