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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was born in another country, immigrated here and moved around a lot as a child. Then I went to college and grad school in different cities, worked in nyc and then moved to dc (Virginia).

Depending on who I’m talking to, I may say I’m from X country since I was born there and identify culturally. Other times I may say I’m from ny since I just moved from there. I got married there, had 2 of my kids there, etc. other times I may say I lived in A or B state if I meet a person from A or B state. I did grow up in A and B state but not my entire childhood.

If I’m overseas or on the west coast, I say I’m from dc. I worked in dc but never actually lived there. We live in VA. I do not think I am lying by telling people I’m from dc. We have lived here for over 10 years. My kids are from here although they were born in nyc.

[b]There was once this nosy busybody who told another friend to watch out for me because I was a liar.[/b] [b]I had said I went to college in X. X was the city of the college where my college was located but I went to a different named college. I also went to grad school twice so attended in different cities.[/b] The busybody was convinced I was a liar. I always thought she was weird. It wasn’t even worth it to explain to her that I lived in several states when I was a child.

I have a friend who I met thinking she was from the west coast. I learned later she mostly grew up in Canada and was born in another country. I really don’t care where she is from.

I have a friend from California who seems obsessed with WHERE in California someone is from. I have a friend from a suburb of LA. She grew up there and I always thought she was from LA. My friend always corrects me and  is not really from CA.

OP, this says more about you than others.[/quote]

Sounds like she was right though...[/quote]n Pittsb

Uh, I don't think she lied. I could say I went to school in Boston, but not be at BU or BC, but Emerson or Tufts. Just because some dummy heard it wrong doesn't mean I lied. Or say I went to school in Pittsburgh, and someone assumes I meant Pitt, not Duquesne.And depending on who I am talking to, I may say I went to school in Austin, where I did my PhD. [/quote]

She did though. She often tells people shes from NYC when she's not even from the US, let alone Manhattan. She fudges all these details and then acts shocked when people notice it [/quote]

If she feels it's inaccurate to say she's "from" her country of origin than she could say "I grew up all over." To say you're from a place you have only lived in as an adult is incorrect and everyone knows this. She's being intentionally misleading.

I've lived in DC for 23 years and before that I lived in SF for 5. But if someone asks where I'm from I tell them Colorado, where I grew up, because I know that's what they mean. I will sometimes also say "but that doesn't feel like home anymore" or "I never really felt like a Colorado person" because I know a lot of people have an idea in their head of what Colorado people are like and I'm not it. But I don't try to conceal the fact that I'm from there because I have no reason to. DC and SF are not inherently superior to CO even if I feel like they are more suitable places for me to live. I actually don't think any place is inherently superior to anywhere else. It's just a question of whether it's the right ght place for a particular person.[/quote]

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