THE WORST TOWN SLOGAN IN NEW ZEALAND

Nick Baker, a self-proclaimed Data Nerd in New Zealand, is running a Twitter poll searching for the country’s “worst, cringiest, funniest” town slogan. He came up with 32, pitting them against each other in a bracket format. Here are some of the awful town slogans:
1. Dannevirke – ‘Take a Liking to a Viking’
2. Porirua – ‘P Town’
3. Timaru – ‘Timazhard’
4. Timaru – ‘Feel, Touch Taste Timaru’
5. Hutt Valley – ‘Right Up My Hutt Valley’
6. Dunedin – ‘It’s Not Exactly Edinburgh, But It Sort Of Is (A Pretty Good Plan D)’
7. Canterbury – ‘Of course you Canterbury’
8. Bulls – ‘Herd of Bulls? A Town Like No Udder’
9. Tuatapere – ‘New Zealand’s Sausage Capital’
10. Wairoa – ‘The Way NZ Used To Be’
11. Milton – ‘The Town of Opportunities’
12. Woodville – ‘All Good in the Wood’
13. Te Atatu Peninsula – ‘Life on TAP’
14. Te Puke – ‘Come and Taste Te Puke’
15. Tauranga – ‘Tempt me Tauranga’
16. Stokes Valley – ‘Better Than You Imagine’
17. Featherston – ‘If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now’
18. Matamata – ‘You Matter in Matamata’
So far, it’s looking like Hutt Valley’s “Right up my Hutt Valley” is the one to beat.
* So many of these sound vaguely obscene.
* How did it take this long for someone to figure out these towns needed to be slogan-shamed?
* I don’t know about you, but I always choose my vacation destinations by the quality of the pun in the town slogan.
* It’s nice how all these towns let first-time copywriters come up with the town slogans.
* In college, ‘Better Than You Imagine’ was my dating slogan.