I would very much consider Odessa, Texas as “Anytown USA”. Not to mention I would question if the small town had Belgian blocks. I read the post as referring to Odessa, UK.
Because this made me curious, apparently "San Jose" [0] is the most popular worldwide place name.
By the number of "San", it either questions the sailor expression "a woman in every port" as either saints getting around a lot, or that the Spanish got around a lot.
Not to take this into the realm of pedantry but unless you're referring the the United Kingdom, I should point out the country acronym for Ukraine is 'UA'.
Isn't pedantry why we come to HN to read comments of precise people educating us and learn a bunch! Thank you for this.
I do mean Odessa, Ukraine. As far as I am aware Odessa, Texas was not built in the 18th-19th centuries so there would be no belgian block streets to be found.
> I assume that by Odessa you don't mean the capital of Ukraine
Odessa is not and was never the capital of Ukraine.
I had a fleeting brain fart. Thanks/sorry for catching it. I know Ukraine's capital, but what's done is done.
Odessa was the 2nd or 3rd largest city in the Russian Empire and currently holds a similar status in Ukraine, afaik. This is largely due to it being a warm water port.