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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do people really do this?

When people ask me where I'm from, usually in a casual setting, I tell them where I grew up. I don't go into an elaborate story about how I was born overseas and immigrated here as a preteen but then grew up in my hometown because I assume people are just making small talk and don't actually care. [/quote]

A very small subset of people do it, and I find it fascinating.  Sometimes I have had to ask a few times to figure out where someone actually grew up. It's strange [/quote]

If by “a very small subset” you meant to say:

- virtually everyone in San Francisco, then, OK.

Because I grew up just outside the City, and nobody but NOBODY wanted to confess that they actually grew up in Kansas.  Or New Jersey.  Or Idaho.

Oh no - those places were not “cool” like San Francisco.

So everyone lied.[/quote]

And that's EXACTLY why people do this.  People will rattle off a million excuses "I moved across town when I was seven, so am I supposed to explain that, and besides I moved away for college..." blah blah blah.  It's nonsense.

What it comes down to, and everyone knows it, is that some places aren't "cool" and the type of people who lie about where theyre from are uniformly unconfident, uncool, and have a chip on their shoulder about where they came from.

it's a big red flag for other personality issues in general. A lot of these types also suffer from severe envy/jealousy issues, especially towards the "spoiled" or "priveleged" lifelong city dwellers who never had to fight their way out of meth central[/quote]

It did not occur to me that some people just feel terrible about themselves, and where they come from. [/quote]

While PP's post was funny, I don't even think it's necessarily an always or even usually a poor ('Meth head central') thing. I think it's just an insecure I'm from a provincial, boring and/or uncool place thing. I know born affluent peers who are sketchy and insecure about the fact they grew up in flyover country, even though they grew up in mansions in pretty swank towns.[/quote]

Or someone will ask you if you married your cousin or have webbed toes. Because city folk are witty and charming.[/quote]

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