Grass Valley but which one?
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (339930)
Rockingham, Australia
August 19, 2023 10:19pm CST
If the photo loads, it’s of one tiny section of the Christmas shop we visited.
I wanted to do some washing a few days ago but the weather is looking very iffy. So I googled the weather for Grass Valley and came up with some very weird temperatures in Fahrenheit. Eventually I woke up enough to realise they’re talking Grass Valley, California.
There are a great many place names which occur over and over in different countries. I remember seeing Melbourne as someone’s home town but later realised it was in Florida. As might be expected we have a lot of names in common with Great Britain.
I often get caught that way as we seem to have many towns with similar names. However, I haven’t found another Yabberup yet.
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@Beestring (14554)
• Hong Kong
20 Aug 23
The shop looks very festive. It opens all year round?
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@snowy22315 (180688)
• United States
21 Aug 23
Is that an Aborgine name? We have alot of US Indian names in the US,,,especially bodies of water.
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@rebelann (112877)
• El Paso, Texas
20 Aug 23
Australia has some really 'odd to me' city and town names like Yabberup. But a lot of the city/town names here in the US are more or less the same as is found in England or Germany and then we too have some strange names not found elsewhere.
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@Tampa_girl7 (50250)
• United States
20 Aug 23
The shop looks very festive and nice.
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
20 Aug 23
We have a Christmas shop in Michigan which is open all year around. They have SO MUCH Christmas stuff! We don't need anymore "stuff"!!! Enjoy your day.
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
21 Aug 23
@JudyEv That's something you can use.
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@AmbiePam (92711)
• United States
20 Aug 23
The United States has a Paris, Texas, so you can add that one to the list of confusing city locations. 
Yay, your picture showed up, and it’s a good one. I wonder if the shopkeeper gets nervous about having little kids around. Maybe by now, the nervousness is gone.
Yay, your picture showed up, and it’s a good one. I wonder if the shopkeeper gets nervous about having little kids around. Maybe by now, the nervousness is gone.1 person likes this
@JudyEv (339930)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Aug 23
The shop was doing a good trade while we were there.
@wolfgirl569 (106226)
• Marion, Ohio
20 Aug 23
That's a lot of Christmas. Yes many names are all over
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@RasmaSandra (79858)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
21 Aug 23
I love what that shop looks like so nostalgic, I hope you have a great start to the new week,
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@Deepizzaguy (102814)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
20 Aug 23
One crazy thought is that there is a Panama City Florida which is often confused with the capital of Panama which is Panama City as well as a neighbor in the capital that is called San Fransisco.
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@Deepizzaguy (102814)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
21 Aug 23
@JudyEv That is true since I have noticed that some cities in America share the same name in Europe or Latin America.
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