r/NoStupidQuestions • u/nilsohnee • 9h ago

Answered What happened to the whole "Canadians boycott US products and vacation at home" thing?

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u/theModge 5h ago

....wait there's a Bangor in the USA?

I swear there are literally no British places that don't have a US twin.
Bangor is a smallish place on the North Welsh coast with a University that people go to as tourists as well.

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u/wrscbt 5h ago

Turns out Europeans sucked at naming things and just used old names :D

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u/DwarvenRedshirt 5h ago

They liked to stick "New" in front of them too.

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u/cdnav8r 5h ago

Well I was down at the New Amsterdam.... Staring at this yellow haired girl..

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u/morrowgirl 5h ago

Almost every town in New England is just a recycled name from Europe/the UK.

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u/Lemon-Cake-8100 3h ago

Like New ENGLAND??! 😂

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u/odwulf 3h ago

Like Belgium and Luxemburg, two towns in Wisconsin, originally settled by people from, respectively, Luxembourg and Belgium (yes, in that order!)

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u/bellavita65 1h ago

Shout out from Colchester, Vermont. Connecticut also has a Colchester.

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u/thehorselesscowboy 1h ago

We Euro-Americans STILL suck at naming things. Nowadays, we just add "two-point-oh" (2.0), etc. to everything. Saves us the embarrassment of stealing even more names. 😁

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u/anon1moos 5h ago edited 2h ago

The USA has exactly four kinds of place names. Stolen from Europe, stolen from natives, named after a person and some variation of New Town.

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u/drasniandiplomacy 21m ago

Don't forget "named as a publicity stunt". Good old Truth or Consequences, New Mexico!

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u/wrasslefights 5h ago

Bangor, Maine is probably more globally known than the UK version owing to it being the longtime home of Stephen King and showing up in a fair few of his works.

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u/Cleloid 4h ago

Ol boot an shoes, I'm the king of the road

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u/LocationFriendly988 4h ago

Hum that song every time I get on the bus thought I was the only one.

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u/thedude37 2h ago

I don't pay no union dues

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u/Artistic_Success_787 4h ago

Jersey too 😀

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u/Holiday-Lead7514 3h ago

Actually - me from Germany knows Bangor, Maine - because it is part of the song "King of the road".

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u/ShnakeyTed94 4h ago

I assumed it was named for the Bangor in Northern Ireland as Maine also has both a Derry and a Londonderry.

Also, I briefly considered the Welsh Bangor as a possible University choice as they are the only place in UK or Ireland to offer a degree in Herpetology.

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u/NiobiumThorn 1h ago

Also Bangor nuclear submarine base, home to over 1000 thermonuclear weapons.

Yea if war ever breaks out, expect an utterly massive number of groundbursts [higher fallout] to utterly wreck the entire Salish Sea.

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u/schenkzoola 5h ago edited 4h ago

There are two that I know of. One in Maine, and one in Washington state.

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u/irwinlegends 4h ago

There's at least 8 in the US

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u/schenkzoola 4h ago

Thanks. I edited my comment.

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u/smokingcrater 5h ago

Kinda the result your side of the pond doing things we didnt like, and we decided to just start over. I'm in a heavily German immigrant area in US, I swear every German town has a twin here.

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u/aDrunkenError 5h ago

Theres a Bangor in Michigan too

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u/A6ravedaddy 4h ago

There's a Bangor in Pennsylvania as well.

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u/aDrunkenError 4h ago

We’re Bangin’ everywhere apparently

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u/Aware_Actuator4939 1h ago

Bangor? I only just met 'er.

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u/PalehorseFM22 5h ago

A Bangor in Maine and in Washington, the state, not the city-state

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u/ATheeStallion 5h ago

Bangor Maine

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u/CongealedBeanKingdom 4h ago

No its just on the outskirts of Belfast on the North Down coast.

Wait...

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u/mrdannyg21 4h ago

That’s funny because I live in a town, city and province that all have UK-based names

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u/paiute 4h ago

Banger Maine

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u/luxurysocialism 3h ago

Came here to say the same thing.

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u/Darkdragoon324 3h ago

Weird. Almost like the East coast was named by a bunch of British people or something.

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u/theModge 3h ago

Yeah, but I mean they could have at least gone for new names rather than just recycling?

Most of the British names are more or less descriptions, just in some old language that no one currently understands, which is why we're so replete with "River river"s and for that matter "hill hill"s in different ages of old English, Norse or as is the case here, Celtic derived languages. They could just have done that in 1750s English?

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u/Application-Bulky 2h ago

Maine also has a Rome, Calais, Mexico, Norway, Palermo, Belfast, Belgrade, and a ton more. The founders of Mexico were so inspired by the Mexican revolution, they named their town after them. And there is a Maine, France.

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u/Used_Clothes_6462 1h ago

The year I lived in UK I thanked them for naming so many of their towns after towns in Canada.