I'm on the road in New England. It's very confusing driving here - all the place names are just like Old England, and therefore very familiar, except they're all in different places - like someone just put a map of the southern half of Great Britain in a blender. There are old holiday haunts of mine, like Tiverton, Taunton, and Somerset (a entire county in the Old Country, but just a nice small town Over Here), as well as Swansea (in Wales Back There, but right next to Somerset Over Here).

It seem the prefix 'New' worked pretty well for a while: New York, New London, New Bedford, Newport... ah, well maybe New Newport? But soon it becomes clear they just gave up. In fact it's worse, because the names are often repeated in each state: Bristol, MA, Bristol, RI, Bristol, NH - make up your mind people! Can't you think of some new names?