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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you feel insecure which is why you're asking this question.  [/quote]

You're not the first person here to suggest I must be insecure but I'm not following the logic - what insecurity might I have that would prompt me to ask the question in the OP?[/quote]

The fact that it bothers you tells me you're insecure.  No different than someone being annoyed if a friend brings up that their kid got into an Ivy. It hits a sore spot - it's normal. But it's still an insecurity. [/quote]

I'm less bothered than curious. My wife and I live in North Arlington but pretty close to Rt 50 (Ashton Heights/Lyon Park). She tends to respond to the "where are you from" question with North Arlington and I lean towards just saying Arlington. Or, more specifically, my response depends on where I'm having the conversation. If I'm at the park down the street I say which street, if we're in Clarendon I say which neighborhood, and if we're in DC or Fairfax I'd just say Arlington.

I said this elsewhere in the thread but to me "North Arlington" is so broad as to be almost useless in clarifying where you live. I can walk to Columbia Pike a mile away in South Arlington but there are parts of far North Arlington that would be a 12-15 minute drive. The "North Arlington" response strikes me as [i]juuuuuust[/i] specific enough to make it clear that you don't live in South Arlington and if that's all you're trying to do it has a whiff of "well I live in the "good" part of Arlington, not that other part".

Anyway, I asked here because I'm curious how other people interpret that response. It looks like most people don't see anything wrong with it but there's certainly a smaller group of people who read it the same way I do. [/quote]

To be fair, where you live... is not what people think of when someone responds North Arlington. You're on the cusp, its not like you're in CC Hills or Williamsburg where its obnoxious to hear N. Arl.[/quote]

That's funny - when I think of North Arlington I literally just think of any address with an 'N' designation in it. So CC Hills is North Arlington the same way as Arlington Forest, Buckingham, or Madison Manor are North Arlington. Why would you take something that is well defined and use it to mean a subset of that thing instead?[/quote]

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