WHAT'S IN A NAME

I'm fascinated by all the quaint little names you see on these new housing developments. It's as if there is a PICKING A NAME FOR YOUR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT Thesaurus or something. I'm guessing people spend endless hours around a cold pizza in the wee hours of the morning brainstorming names like Rabbit Run or Hunter's Glen or Equine Estates ... Beaumont Place ... River's Edge Run ... Creekside Manor ... and, yes, where I will be living Silver Lake Farms. A person could begin to gag on the syrupy sweetness of it all. In fact, I have. Although, I suppose there's a certain charm in the marketing ploy of Stonewall Estates. Whereas Poop Pile Place and Hog Stink Estates or Venomous Valley ... not so much.