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There was a time where I use to fly internationally very frequently. Very use to having the manager sort out the car/flight/hotel with our travel agent - so for the most part I just grabbed the tickets and go.

Manager asked me - can you go to London? It was pretty cold in Minnesota, and London sounded nice. Turned brain off, got on the flight, and landed way too early. London, Canada... ffs, and it was even colder than home. Never even crossed my mind to check which London.

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I live in London Ontario, right by the Thames. Got hassled at customs in Netherlands being asked why my Canadian passport was issued from England. People always say they can't hear the accent when I say I'm from London (besides that time at customs they were accusing my lisp of sounding a bit English)

There's also a Paris Ontario

> There's also a Paris Ontario

Also Lisbon, Dublin, Vienna, Seville, and Copenhagen. There used to be a Berlin, but it was renamed to Kitchener in 1916.

https://i.redd.it/zhp2c11izm541.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_to_Kitchener_name_chang...

There's also Moscow, Idaho somewhere in there

There's also an Ontario, CA in southern California.

and Ontario, Oregon

And Ontario, CA has a bottled water provider called Niagara[0]. Not to be confused with Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. When I saw a bottle of Niagra water in California (as I'm from Ontario) I was unbelievably confused.

[0]: https://www.niagarawater.com/

The US has at least a dozen Paris-es, including one or two states with two.

The only reason there's not far more confusion over these things is that a lot of these places are too small to have airports...

> I live in London Ontario, right by the Thames.

Wow, I thought you probably meant the latter part as a joke until I looked it up!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_River_(Ontario)

Thanks for the geography lesson.

And there's also New London, also on the Thames. No, not that one. Not the other one, either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_River_(Connecticut) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut

It's also possible to fly to Moscow, Idaho which shares an airport with Pullman, WA

Just be glad they didn't send you to Paris TX or Rome, GA.

Edit: I forgot Memphis, TN.

As a Georgia resident...we have Rome, Ga AND Athens Ga so you can take a nice trip through European cities a few hours apart.

And a Gainesville, Ga not to be confused with a Gainesville, Florida.

We also have a Houston County...which is not pronounced the same as Houston, Texas (it is pronounced like house-ten)

Also a Decatur, GA not to be confused with Decatur, Alabama.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

We're also home to not one, but two Buckheads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckhead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckhead,_Georgia

There's also Cairo, not to be confused with Illinois or Egypt, as well as Albany (not to be confused with NY).

Different pronunciations - if you're going to kay-row, you're going to Illinois.

The GA one was apparently named after the IL one, so it's pronounced the same way.

The one in Georgia is pronounced that way too.

Cairo-Durham in upstate NY is also kay-row.

The one in Georgia is pronounced Al-binny. Sometimes Awwl-binn-eeh.

...and of course Georgia is also a country on the other side of the world.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/260...

The US is teeming with UK or UK-inspired place names for obvious reasons. Here's the Georgia section on the list of US places with an English name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locations_in_the_United_States...

It's a pretty lengthy page and is unlikely to be exhaustive. It can be a bit of a minefield though. For example, that page lists Boston Georgia, but according to the top of this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._places_named_afte...

Boston, Georgia is named after a person, not the location in England.

And Decatur isn't in Decatur County. It's in DeKalb county (and the L is silent).

You laugh, but I had an interview with some airforce people for some scholarship money. Living in Paris France they scheduled me for a phone interview with someone in Paris Texas. Needless to say we missed each other with the timezone difference.

Or St Petersburg, Florida.

And on the way back, not to Minneapolis, KS!

We also had plenty of those around where I grew up in Missouri. Visitors always got a kick out of this road sign:

https://goo.gl/maps/FyJZdXuKDv8LKbhm7

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/uW3yzWj.jpg

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