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[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, in middle school moved to a small city in America. 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]

I wasn’t born in a foreign country, but I can relate to moving around a lot. First as a kid for my dad’s job. Then a new city for college, then a new city for law school, then a new city to start my career, then finally to the DC area for a job transfer. It’s just a lot to go through for casual conversation and I don’t necessarily identify one place as “where I grew up.” My parents have been since moved to a new city that I’ve never lived in before, so when I go “home” to visit family, it’s not actually my home. I literally moved every 3-5 years my entire life until moving to the DC area in my late 20s. Been here for a decade now, bought a house and started a family. This is the most I’ve ever felt at home somewhere.

If someone asks where I’m “from” I usually give a vague answer that I’ve lived along the East coast, but settled here for work in 2011.

As a side note, I don’t like the “where are you from” question because I know some people take that as an inquiry into their heritage or they may not want to talk about their childhood. I prefer asking some variation of “how’d you end up in DC?” It’s open ended and people can give whatever answer they want (even if just vague like “for work”). [/quote]
“I moved around a lot, so I didn’t really feel like I had a hometown till DC.” I managed to condense it to one sentence. [/quote]

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