Those Quirky Boiseites! Item #1: Street names

I know that themed street names are nothing new. Most cities I've lived in have one or two neighborhoods with streets named after trees, colleges, or U.S. Presidents. But the suburbs of Boise seem to be taking this motif-based naming thing to a whole new level. Witness the following examples, just a small sampling from the neighborhoods I'm familiar with so far:




Here's my new hood.  I wonder why they chose these birds in particular. Kildeer? Curlew? I'm just happy I don't live on Grouse. And that I get to turn on Sagehen every day (chirp chirp!)




Who decided that Lancelot Ave. should be longer than King Arthur Dr.?  Maybe Guinevere had something to do with that.  She would know.  She intersects both of them.




Welcome to Candyland. Or maybe it's where Homer's sarcastic Magical Man lives.  I have been to the neighborhood, however, and let me tell you, it's not all that sweet.  Note the proximity to the railroad tracks. 




Does anyone REALLY want to live in Romeo and Juliet's neighborhood? Seems like the traffic from the funeral processions alone would be too much of a hassle.




Grab the shotgun, Myrtle!  We're going to live on Chuckwagon Ave.!




Too bad there's not a dock around here.

And yet, for all the creativity exhibited in the above examples, the names of some of the major streets are mind-numbingly dull.  According to Google maps, Five Mile Road and Ten Mile Road are actually 6 miles apart.  And in my neighborhood, I'm still not sure which cross street is where, because they all sound so similar:



In case it's too small to read, the highlighted roads are Midway Rd., Middleton Rd., and Midland Blvd.  No doubt about it, this is Middle America.

But hey, at least they try to spice it up a bit.