# Describe your geographic location badly **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982 "2020-10-26T22:25:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/41 "2020-10-27T19:47:06Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > I live in a city chock full of assorted crazies and weirdos. There’s a documentary about it floating around out there somewhere, hosted by some comedian and a rock star. Howdy, neighbor. It’s also full of anarchists, apparently, and everyone here is obsessed with alcohol. I’ll bet that if there was a pandemic, the bars would still be. . .oh, wait. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/42 "2020-10-27T19:48:30Z")
Also, it’s at the arse end of the world. [Officially.](https://www.afr.com/politics/keating-denies-arse-end-remark-19940624-k5ydx) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/43 "2020-10-27T19:50:34Z")
I live in a sun-baked dessicated cat box. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/44 "2020-10-27T19:55:34Z")
I live two miles away from where Old Man River splits two northern cities. One city famously described as having streets named by drunken Irishmen, the other where cops are famously racist. Oh, and we can say we’ve been governed by a complete nutso ex-wrestler. Fun. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/45 "2020-10-27T21:23:58Z")
I live in the industrialized armpit of America, between a city of named for fields of wild onions and geography that looks like a mitten. Which is probably too easy for a lot of people here, but whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/46 "2020-10-27T21:33:17Z")
I reckoned it was Cincinnati due to “Cincinnatus,” but I don’t know the surrounding area at all. Tripler I can barely spell “Ohio.” ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/47 "2020-10-27T21:35:37Z")
Nope. Two states lower (and slightly more to the East). Tripler Although, I went to Yellowstone for my honeymoon. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/48 "2020-10-27T22:06:26Z")
We have some deeply inaccurate dinosaurs and a large television transmitter of visual and historical interest. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/49 "2020-10-27T23:18:24Z")
Found it. It looks like beautiful country. BTW, the USGS describes our super-volcanoes as “young”. Geologic time is a trip. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/50 "2020-10-28T00:56:16Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > We have some deeply inaccurate dinosaurs and a large television transmitter of visual and historical interest. Berlin? I know they have that big TV tower, although I don’t know about the dinosaurs. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/51 "2020-10-28T00:58:39Z")
Nope. I’m a bit to the west of Berlin, by a couple hundred miles and a short swim. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/52 "2020-10-28T02:08:38Z")
In the country where I live, you can see the sun rise out of the Pacific and set over the Atlantic. Although not an island nation, many people pass through it without ever setting foot on it (and not because they fly over it.) On the other hand, it’s famous for being the end of the road. ---
**Author:** ![Skinnybones\_Lampshade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skinnybones_lampshade/32/2872_2.png) [@Skinnybones\_Lampshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skinnybones_Lampshade)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/53 "2020-10-28T02:58:44Z")
I live in your country, OP, except, my city often poses as NYC for movies even though a majority of us don’t have the same mother tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/54 "2020-10-28T03:39:42Z")
I live in the shadow of volcanoes (plural), in real earthquake country so when The Big One finally hits, those California quakes will be just slight wiggles. ---
**Author:** ![Turki-lurki](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turki-lurki/32/7168_2.png) [@Turki-lurki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turki-lurki)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/55 "2020-10-28T03:51:47Z")
I live in a capital city that has come down on the wrong side of every major political/ethical decision confronting the nation for three centuries. Some of our politicians have been called giants in founding a just society with sound laws- others have been nationally recognized as the worst kinds of political hacks. Summer heat and humidity here is beyond human endurance. We have mosquitos the size of sparrows. Yet we all think this is the best spot on the planet. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/56 "2020-10-28T04:02:24Z")
I live in a blue city by a river in a bottom corner of an ignorant red state and share state lines with 2 other ignorant red states. TCB. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/57 "2020-10-28T04:25:26Z")
And Van Halen had a hit song with your country in the title, right? ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jungian_camisole1/32/3646_2.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole1)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/58 "2020-10-28T04:45:40Z")
Austin’s little sister. We’re weird in our own right! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/59 "2020-10-28T04:53:26Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > And Van Halen had a hit song with your country in the title, right? That’s right. We also grow some famous weed. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/60 "2020-10-28T05:25:44Z")
I live on a peninsula surrounded mostly by water, but also some land. It gets cold when the temperature drops below about 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Did I mention the air gets very sticky when it’s humid? One thing is for sure: I sure do have one hell of a view of the moon from my dwelling. Most nights. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982.md?page=4)