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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.

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

Or St Petersburg, Florida.

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

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