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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you feel insecure which is why you're asking this question.  [/quote]

You're not the first person here to suggest I must be insecure but I'm not following the logic - what insecurity might I have that would prompt me to ask the question in the OP?[/quote]

The fact that it bothers you tells me you're insecure.  No different than someone being annoyed if a friend brings up that their kid got into an Ivy. It hits a sore spot - it's normal. But it's still an insecurity. [/quote]

I'm less bothered than curious. My wife and I live in North Arlington but pretty close to Rt 50 (Ashton Heights/Lyon Park). She tends to respond to the "where are you from" question with North Arlington and I lean towards just saying Arlington. Or, more specifically, my response depends on where I'm having the conversation. If I'm at the park down the street I say which street, if we're in Clarendon I say which neighborhood, and if we're in DC or Fairfax I'd just say Arlington.

I said this elsewhere in the thread but to me "North Arlington" is so broad as to be almost useless in clarifying where you live. I can walk to Columbia Pike a mile away in South Arlington but there are parts of far North Arlington that would be a 12-15 minute drive. The "North Arlington" response strikes me as [i]juuuuuust[/i] specific enough to make it clear that you don't live in South Arlington and if that's all you're trying to do it has a whiff of "well I live in the "good" part of Arlington, not that other part".

Anyway, I asked here because I'm curious how other people interpret that response. It looks like most people don't see anything wrong with it but there's certainly a smaller group of people who read it the same way I do. [/quote]

Ahhh, so she’s a MONA. Tell her to stop specifying “North.” Your take is exactly correct. [/quote]

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