Anonymous wrote:Did the DCUM psychic post this? The fact that this went up maybe a week before the Hilaria Baldwin story broke.... wow

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Anonymous wrote:My hometown (entire home state, really) is a national embarrassment full of backwards rednecks, and I got tired of the stereotypes. Much easier to say I've lived in DC longer than anywhere else than to grit-smile through ignorant comments about not having an accent or seeming well-educated.

+100

We're probably from the same state.

Anonymous wrote:It’s funny, the people that want to claim city people are so awful, and that anyone who cares about hometowns are awful and judgmental- and at the same time lying and grifting to pretend to be from those big cities that are apparently so awful.  Because apparently it’s bad for the “city folk” to be judgmental of that place but all the rural dwellers can hide it and lie and make their own judgements ad that’s okay.

Small town logic, I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is wild. I have no idea who in the world would feel the need to interrogate where someone else is from. Except to pat themselves on the back that they are "cooler" b.c of where they happen to be from.

Oh no wait I did grow up in the South and people used to ask "who are your people?" They were snobs who needed to reassure themselves of their own status.

Same strange insecure energy.

You sound paranoid and embarrassed. Maybe rightfully so.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is wild. I have no idea who in the world would feel the need to interrogate where someone else is from. Except to pat themselves on the back that they are "cooler" b.c of where they happen to be from.

Oh no wait I did grow up in the South and people used to ask "who are your people?" They were snobs who needed to reassure themselves of their own status.

Same strange insecure energy.

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Anonymous wrote:I personally find it rude for someone to ask me where I'm from, which implies that I am somehow other than someone who belongs. Yes, I get that this sounds sensitive, but the only people who have asked me where I am from are tourists who assume I'm on vacation, too, or someone who is native to DC and wants to make sure everyone knows that they are a true native.

Born in Atlanta, lived 30 years in DC. DC is my hometown.

DC is not your hometown unless you were raised there. Very simple. And you will be called out on it because people can tell

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Anonymous wrote:My hometown (entire home state, really) is a national embarrassment full of backwards rednecks, and I got tired of the stereotypes. Much easier to say I've lived in DC longer than anywhere else than to grit-smile through ignorant comments about not having an accent or seeming well-educated.