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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do people lie about the city they grew up in?  I live in a major city with a very high transplant percentage and it's amazing to me how many people will beat around the bush to say they're from "here" when the truth is they grew up in Duluth, Minnesota or Astoria, Oregon or whatever.  Is it because they want to seem more cosmopolitan?  What is the pathology at play?[/quote]

OP, I was born in Boston and moved almost immediately to Colorado until I was in middle school, followed by 10 years in Wisconsin, and then 15 years in DC. I now live in CA. Where do you think I should tell people I'm from, realistically? I tell people in CA that I moved there from DC, which is true. Arguably, I'm a lot more from DC than I am from Boston or CO. I have no affinity with or allegiance to the state of Wisconsin at all. Why should I claim those places because I was a child there?[/quote]

If this is a serious question, then the answer is quite obvious.  "I grew up in (city name) Colorado and (city name) Wisconsin" since that's where you spent your formative years.  Going to college in DC and then spending some early working years there is largely irrelevant since you spent your time there after you had reached adulthood and were "fully formed", so to speak.  Whenever asks "where are you from" theyre asking where you grew up- it's really not even a complicated answer, in your case. [/quote]

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