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[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]

And then these loons say you lie. They lack the inability to have any imagination that anyone did anything differently than they did.

I was born in a foreign country, moved to several others, bounced about, [b]in middle school moved to a small city in America.[/b] Moved for college and law school. My experience isn’t uncommon and I’m small talk, I say I’m from where I live. Who has this kind of time. [/quote]

That's where you say you're from.  You could preface it with, "we moved around a lot, but lived in ____ the longest".  But my guess is that the "small town" name doesnt sound as cool as wherever else you lie and claim to have grown up in. [/quote]

What are you talking about? I didn’t live there the longest. I lived there for six years. I have no issue with it, but why would that be where I’m from when I’m literally a person born in a different country? Why are you making these arbitrary rules about it and then getting annoyed when nobody else knows wtf they are? This is so stupid. [/quote]

And maybe no matter where we are from we don't want an intrusive, judgemental busy body in our business [/quote]

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