When a place is called " Heights", what does "heights" mean/refer to? - eviltoast

For example, in Washington Heights and Golan Heights, what does “heights” mean? What does it tell us about the place?

  • glimse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    See: 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

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      1 year 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.”

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          1 year 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 million, 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!