I want to live somewhere that has a cool acronym. For Example: SoHo: South of Houston Street Alphabet City: North of Houston Street BoHo: Bohemia, New York, just east of Central Park (or Artists or the people who live in Bohemia) SoCal: Southern California of course I realize that Alphabet City isn't really an acronym, but nevertheless it has a nice ring to it. I think, in order to live somewhere with a name like this, you need to be somewhere where there are a bunch of artists trying to create. Of course would they accept a designer into their midst? It could be argued that I've "sold out" by being a designer instead of a fine artist. However, when I graduate, I will have a Masters of Fine Arts, but on the other hand the mere fact that I went to school instead of diving in and pursuing my art is reason enough to deign my selling out status. I think I've been listening to too much RENT. If anyone has any cool ideas for acronyms for where I live let me know... and neither NoDa nor NoDal sound right. It sounds like node. However, maybe that's just the sort of thing I need. But really the problem is that both blatantly borrow heavily from the very acronym... of course SoCal isn't original, it's an obvious reference back to SoHo, and even SoHo and BoHo were originally areas in London, so even New York is, in effect, stealing. As for Alphabet City, I don't know... my research hasn't taken me that far, (besides the fact that it's so called due to Avenues A, B, C, etc.) I guess this is quite a bit of work for just a "status" name, but I need a better description of where I live. Last Thursday, some people asked me where I lived, and when I said, "The Village." They immediately thought that I lived in the Village in the Oklahoma City area, even though moments before I had said that I lived in Dallas. In fact, that was the statement almost immediately preceeding the statement "the Village" in the sentence. "So where are you living now?" "I live in Dallas, in this apartment conglomerate, the Village." "Oh! Over off Penn? The cops there are jerks." "No, in Dallas..." "oh..." some people... Five miles south and I could have lived in Deep Ellum. Do people live there? Maybe there's a condemned building I could take up some squatter's rights in.