Do you ever get "where's that?" when you tell someone where you're from?

[bcla]

Rhode Island. Long Island? No. Rhode Island......ya know smallest state.... never mind. We’re from Boston.

I thought maybe Family Guy helped with name recognition. However, they made it seem bigger, with the setting having its own TV stations and where Providence is considered a far away big city.

 

[Suprachica79]

I live in CT, one of the smallest states in the country. I work on the western border, live outside Waterbury, and come from outside Hartford. This is literally a span of 75 miles and if I tell people at work I’m from South Windsor , they generally have no idea what or where that is. If I say Wolcott; which is 40 miles from work and 35 from South Windsor, I have to say “just outside Waterbury” for them to have a clue at either location. Mind you, Wolcott has like 15,000 people and South Windsor has around 25,000.

If I’m out of state, I just say CT, it’s small enough that it’s a good general area lol. Sometimes I say CT, but not Fairfield County, just so they know I’m not loaded, high misconceptions out here lol

 

[kdonnel]

I just tell people Atlanta. No one has heard of Hoschton and the few that have are pretending.

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

Town of Lockport- near Niagara County Produce. off Tonawanda Creek Road North

Oh cool. I live in the city off Willow between Beattie Ave and Davison road

 

[Allison]

Anyone who doesn't live in a major city that everyone is aware of would get that.

 

[Sweetpancake]

It's always my fellow Americans who are clueless. I've traveled the world and found people who asked me about specific towns in Delaware - or bars.

We’ve experienced the same while on holidays. Very few people down south are familiar with where we’re from so I usually stick with “we’re from Canada”. That said, when I was working in Epcot a fellow cast member was speaking with a couple from New York, they were shocked that Canada was a country. They thought when their friends said they were going to Canada for the weekend that they were going to visit another town. I kid you not!,lol

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I live in CT, one of the smallest states in the country. I work on the western border, live outside Waterbury, and come from outside Hartford. This is literally a span of 75 miles and if I tell people at work I’m from South Windsor , they generally have no idea what or where that is. If I say Wolcott; which is 40 miles from work and 35 from South Windsor, I have to say “just outside Waterbury” for them to have a clue at either location. Mind you, Wolcott has like 15,000 people and South Windsor has around 25,000.

If I’m out of state, I just say CT, it’s small enough that it’s a good general area lol. Sometimes I say CT, but not Fairfield County, just so they know I’m not loaded, high misconceptions out here lol

Hi, neighbor! I know South Windsor quite well - I've lived in Enfield for most of the past 42 years (a few spent in Ellington and Agawam, MA). In fact, things have gotten so bad in Enfield that we've often thought about moving to South Windsor. We hear the schools are good there as well

 

[bcla]

Well - I'm from a place that's so obscure that even people living 10 miles away might not know where it is. Several of my coworkers have asked where this place is.

 

[LYSE]

Anyone who doesn't live in a major city that everyone is aware of would get that.

Pretty much, you have to say the closest major city to you...even if it's an hour away.

One funny case though...I was talking to a counter part of mine at work...he was in the Dublin Ireland office...he asked where I lived and I said Phoenix (not really but close enough)...never heard of it....okay so Arizona...blank stare....The grand canyon? That worked but he thought it was near San Francisco :facepalm

 

[NAB]

Orlando, no. Waterloo Ontario, sometimes.

My home town, Waterloo

Bowmanville , where ?....east of Toronto . Sometimes I just say Toronto.

 

[firefly_ris]

Yes but mostly because they don't understand my pronunciation the first time, then I have to remember I need to enunciate -- Bal-ti-more. For some reason people don't seem to catch "Balmur Merlin"..... Alternatively if I'm back home and someone asks me where I live now and I say Buffalo, they ask if I go to NYC a lot. (Umm.... no. Not even remotely close).

 

[RangerPooh]

My hometown in CA is known for being the garlic capital of the world. If you don’t know that tidbit and aren’t from the area then I just say it’s near San Jose (aka Silicon Valley) or in the SF Bay Area.

When we lived in WA we lived in a rural area on the Idaho border. For those in the state we’d just say Pullman or ‘Washington State University ‘ and people had an idea. These days when people ask what part of WA we lived I just say on the Idaho border 2 hours south if Spokane. They’ll have no idea so why give more detail?

Currently we live in a small city outside if Memphis, TN. So no description is needed, we just say Memphis.

 

[maxaroni]

Grew up in North Jersey and always said the name of the town, if clueless, we’d say 15-20 minutes outside of NYC . Living in South Jersey for 30 years and say outside of Philly. If we say South Jersey, people will say “oh Trenton?”. No, that is more central Jersey.

 

[Suprachica79]

Hi, neighbor! I know South Windsor quite well - I've lived in Enfield for most of the past 42 years (a few spent in Ellington and Agawam, MA). In fact, things have gotten so bad in Enfield that we've often thought about moving to South Windsor. We hear the schools are good there as well

My mom and aunt grew up in enfield, both sets of my aunt and uncles still live in enfield, my grandmother lived there for 60 years, I know enfield very well . My cousin lives in Ellington and I have been to Achaean many a time. South windsor school systems are phenomenal, taxes are horrific. If you move, it’s a good idea, just prepare yourself lol.

 

[pweyl36]

I'm from Delaware - some people don't even know it's a state. We say we live "near Philadelphia". My husband is from NYC and we lived there until 2008 - at Disney last week he just told anyone who asked that we're from New York.

Im from Delaware, Newark area

 

[jaiminee krikit]

Definitely. I just say we're from Chicago now when we're on vacation, so much easier that way.

My sister moved near Albany, NY from Illinois several years ago. When someone asks where she is, I just say NY but everyone assumes NYC. When they ask me if she likes living in the big city, I tell them she lives over 3 hours away.

 

[shoney]

If someone asks from Long Island I tell them the town
If someone aks from the city I tell them Suffolk county
Outside of the area I say Long Island but have now added Long Island New York since not everyone knows where Long Island is

 

[dish rag]

My home town, Waterloo

Bowmanville , where ?....east of Toronto . Sometimes I just say Toronto.

I say an hour west of Toronto

 

[SC Minnie]

I usually start off my saying a suburb of Charlotte NC but we live in SC. Then I get the look because people think Charlotte is in the middle of NC. I explain it's on the border of NC/SC. Then they say you must live near Myrtle Beach! Well, if you call 3 hours away close then I guess I do....

 

[bcla]

I usually start off my saying a suburb of Charlotte NC but we live in SC. Then I get the look because people think Charlotte is in the middle of NC. I explain it's on the border of NC/SC. Then they say you must live near Myrtle Beach! Well, if you call 3 hours away close then I guess I do....

Living in a metro area that straddles state lines is always a weird one to explain. There are all the suburbs of Kansas City that are in Kansas and not Missouri. Vancouver, Washington is part of the Portland, Oregon metro area. And I guess the real weird one is that Cincinnati Airport is in Kentucky.