I haven't written more about our housing situation, or as I like to call it "The Greater Bako Foreclosure Scavenger Hunt", in deference to the boyfriend's wishes. He doesn't read this blog, but he'd "heard" from "friends" (you know who you are) that I had mentioned something about it and he wasn't too thrilled. So out of love and respect, I'll say no more.
Except this.
Who the hell picks the names for the streets of Bakersfield? Obviously it's someone with an axe to grind against the city, or someone with nothing but contempt for the people who live here. Someone from Fresno.
How else to explain streets like "Volcano" and "Fjord"? Because everyone knows Bakersfield is known the world over for it's scenic volcanoes and fjords.
How about "Candy Lane" and "Twinkle Drive"? No wonder the people here seem so angry.
"Merlot Cellars Drive"... why, that has to be a nice area, right?
We looked at a house on "Snowflake". "Snowflake"? In Bako? It was 106 that day.
Several of the developers have chosen to name the streets after their kids (I'm assuming):
"Kathy Suzanne"
"Tori Lorene"
"Kimmie Rachelle"
Proving they have no more talent naming their kids than they do the streets.
"I live on Kimmie Rachelle Drive..."
Never gonna happen.
Or how about a theme! Everyone loves a theme. There's the "Spice Tract", which is really the "Spice Rack".
"My house? Just make a left on Sage, a left on Rosemary and the a right on Thyme..."
You can really do that here!
Or get your flag on in the neighborhood of "Liberty" where you can actually live on the corner of "Declaration" and "Independence".
The old downtown is laid out with numbered streets running east and west, and lettered streets running north and south. Either the original city fathers were a no-nosense, pragmatic sort, or they knew even then that the locals couldn't be trusted naming the streets.
