Sac housing goes ironical

All right, it’s officially time to stop building new houses in the Sacramento region, now that I’ve discovered that there is a subdivision in Rocklin called Wisteria. That’s actually all I want to say about that. There is another subdivision called Fiddyment Farm which sounds like a neighborhood out of Dr. Seuss and is one letter away from being pronounced “Fiddy Cent Farm,” which is hilarious.

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Author: CoolDMZ

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9 thoughts on “Sac housing goes ironical”

  1. That’s almost as good as my favorite fake neighborhood, “Rivershore.” Have you ever heard of a “rivershore?” Of course not, because there is no such thing. Shores are confined to lakes and oceans. The geographical term for where land meets a river is a riverBANK, or even a riverSIDE, hell I’d even go for a good river landing or a riverwalk. Just to add to the irony, I think river shore is at least 15 miles from the nearest river.

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  2. At one point in my life, I edited a real estate publication. I used to shake my head at all the fanciful names for subdivisions that crossed my desk. Keeps the marketing people employed, I guess.

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  3. I like it when they name a subdivision for what was destroyed to make way for the new construction — like Peach Tree Mall or Orchard Lane.

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  5. What about Del Bocca Vista Phase II?

    Also, when people new to the Sacramento area hear people mention “Laguna” do they think of such exotic places as Elk Grove or some place in Socal?

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  6. Personal favorite: Pollo Del Mar

    OK, OK, so that was in the movie “LA Story” but it was great for those of us who did our years of high school Spanish.

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  7. excellent discussion! though i’m kicking myself that i didn’t work in “Sudden Valley”… it makes me think of ranch dressing, but for some reason i don’t want to eat it.

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  8. Norm wrote:
    “Also, when people new to the Sacramento area hear people mention ‘Laguna’ do they think of such exotic places as Elk Grove or some place in Socal?”

    A former coworker of mine got re-married, and she moved in with her new husband in Elk Grove. She was sad to leave her American River Drive divorcee condo (East Ranch) for the south county. She would always clarify that it was “the LAGUNA side” of Elk Grove — even to the person taking her Nordstrom catalog order on the phone (in the dark ages before the internet) who couldn’t care less where she lived. Somehow the “Laguna” nomenclature made it more acceptable to her.

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  9. Has anyone noticed the complex on Fulton called something like “Rio de Diablo”? I swear I’m not exaggerating, there is definitely a reference to a body of water and satan in the complex title.

    I guess at least that one is honest about itself…

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