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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If someone I don’t know asks me where I am from and I think they mean where did I spend my childhood, I will say Buffalo.  Most people know generally where that is.  I did not grow up in Buffalo but in a farming town near Buffalo.  Neither place is cool and I have no shame about where I grew up, but saying East Hayseed, NY (for example) is pointless since the follow up question to “where is that” is simply “near Buffalo.”

I assume most people don’t really care about the answer and are just being polite.  In the case that it turns out the other person is also from “near Buffalo” we have a good time narrowing down our answers and seeing if we know any people/places in common.

Claiming to be from Buffalo or Detroit or Chicago or LA on the East Coast is not a weird flex.  It’s just easier to give a basic geographic marker and let the person ask follow up questions if they are actually interested.  [/quote]

Correct, and answering the original question with “a town outside of Buffalo” seems a little needy, suggesting that you want the person to ask you for its name, and answering the original question with “East Hayseed, a small farming village a little east of Buffalo” seems weird too.

Maybe a previous poster thinks that suburban Detroiters have a particular obligation to confess the name of their fancy town — one not shared by any other metro area — because the contrasts are so great there between city and suburbs?[/quote]

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