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[quote=Anonymous]I think it depends on context. If I’m travelling and someone I meet at a hostel asks where I’m from, I’d say DC, as I interpret them to be asking where I’m travelling from. Same for people I work with who could be anywhere in the world and are just asking to get a vague sense of what time zone I’m in. But if I’m chatting with another parent from my kids’ school they presumably know I live in DC and are asking what I was born/raised so I give the rough geographic area for that (no one has ever heard of the tiny village in question). But where you’re “from” isn’t clearly where you were born/raised; it can also mean where you came from [to get here]. If you’re super hung up on wanting to know where people were born ask about their hometown.[/quote]
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