If you lie about your hometown, why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, some people are pretentious, and want to pretend they are better than they really are - hence the lying.

If you think where you're from makes you better than other people, then you're not someone I want to be around. I care about who people are, not who their parents were.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, some people are pretentious, and want to pretend they are better than they really are - hence the lying.

If you think where you're from makes you better than other people, then you're not someone I want to be around. I care about who people are, not who their parents were.

So then by this logic I presume you have no issues accurately stating your hometown?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If someone asks “where are you from?” I would assume they mean “where do you live?” rather than “where did you grow up?”

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No way. It takes two seconds to say, "I'm from Ohio but have been in DC 20 years."

It's not that straightforward for many of us.

I was born in Indiana, raised in Maryland from age 8 up, moved to Michigan for college, lived on the West Coast for 22 years before moving overseas for work, and now I live in Virginia. But I lived in California the longest and most of my family is there now and I consider it home. That's a lot of info when we just met, and if I just tell you I'm from California because I don't feel like repeating my life story, that's my perogative.

Well, you're not FROM the west coast, however much you love it, and however much "the west coast" may have a cache to it. You're from Indiana and Maryland, and that's easy enough to say. You live in California now and have lived there for a while, but that's not where you're FROM, unless you're traveling around the country and someone wants to ask where you live now.

No, I lived in California the longest. For several decades. I don't live there now. I don't even remember Indiana.

Correct, but you didn't grow up there, so you're not FROM there. You live there now, so I'm glad you love it so much.

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Anonymous wrote:If someone asks “where are you from?” I would assume they mean “where do you live?” rather than “where did you grow up?”

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No way. It takes two seconds to say, "I'm from Ohio but have been in DC 20 years."

It's not that straightforward for many of us.

I was born in Indiana, raised in Maryland from age 8 up, moved to Michigan for college, lived on the West Coast for 22 years before moving overseas for work, and now I live in Virginia. But I lived in California the longest and most of my family is there now and I consider it home. That's a lot of info when we just met, and if I just tell you I'm from California because I don't feel like repeating my life story, that's my perogative.

Well, you're not FROM the west coast, however much you love it, and however much "the west coast" may have a cache to it. You're from Indiana and Maryland, and that's easy enough to say. You live in California now and have lived there for a while, but that's not where you're FROM, unless you're traveling around the country and someone wants to ask where you live now.

No, I lived in California the longest. For several decades. I don't live there now. I don't even remember Indiana.

Correct, but you didn't grow up there, so you're not FROM there. You live there now, so I'm glad you love it so much.

[Anonymous]

Why are you so determined to get into other people’s business?

[Anonymous]

Why do you care + what does it matter? Love your own busy body life Gladys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you so determined to get into other people’s business?

If people is not comfortable telling a stranger where she/he grew up, why don’t you accept it and move on. It’s not relevant to your life.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you so determined to get into other people’s business?

If someone is not comfortable telling a stranger where she/he grew up, why don’t you accept it and move on. It’s not relevant to your life.

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I was born in Spain because my American parents were living there at the time. I am not from Spain, nor am I Spanish (which is the assumption when I say I was born in Spain).

I then lived in MD for a few years, then overseas again, then MD again, then overseas again. So I say I'm from MD, even though I spent less time in MD before the age of 18 than in other countries. It's too complicated to tell the whole story. As it happens I've lived in MD for the last 30 years so it's more true now than it was when I was 20.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, some people are pretentious, and want to pretend they are better than they really are - hence the lying.

If you think where you're from makes you better than other people, then you're not someone I want to be around. I care about who people are, not who their parents were.

So then by this logic I presume you have no issues accurately stating your hometown?

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What else are you hiding?

[Anonymous]

I personally find it rude for someone to ask me where I'm from, which implies that I am somehow other than someone who belongs. Yes, I get that this sounds sensitive, but the only people who have asked me where I am from are tourists who assume I'm on vacation, too, or someone who is native to DC and wants to make sure everyone knows that they are a true native.

Born in Atlanta, lived 30 years in DC. DC is my hometown.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, some people are pretentious, and want to pretend they are better than they really are - hence the lying.

If you think where you're from makes you better than other people, then you're not someone I want to be around. I care about who people are, not who their parents were.

So then by this logic I presume you have no issues accurately stating your hometown?

I grew up in the white section of East St. Louis

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Anonymous wrote:OP, some people are pretentious, and want to pretend they are better than they really are - hence the lying.

If you think where you're from makes you better than other people, then you're not someone I want to be around. I care about who people are, not who their parents were.

So then by this logic I presume you have no issues accurately stating your hometown?

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What else are you hiding?

My husband and I are swingers. You caught us.

[Anonymous]

OP could you tell me where I’m from? I’m American.

Ages 1-4: Buenos Aires
5-7: Nairobi
8-11: Tunis
12-13: Kuala Lumpur
14-16: Lima
17-18: Mexico City
18-22: New Haven
22-25: NYC
25-28: Palo Alto
28-30: San Francisco
31: London
32-35: NYC again
36-present: DC

[Anonymous]

Some of us have a really hard time with this question. Do I answer my birthday country (I was only there for a few months)? Do I say the state my dad is from (l lived there for less than a year at the age of 4 and have visited several times since)? Do I say the state that my mom’s family is from (I spent about 1.5 years cumulatively)...but she didn’t actually live there until she was a teenager (Air Force brat). I’ve been in the DMV for over 20 years, which is much longer than time I’ve spent anywhere else. This question is complicated for some of us. Why not just ask, “Where do you call home?”