# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/61 "2020-10-28T05:40:06Z")
I live in a state that is best known to outsiders for three former residents who weren’t from here: - A tall skinny guy from Kentucky and Indiana - A very very naughty tax evader from New York - A tall athletic bald guy with good shoes from New York and North Carolina The tax evader is buried about five miles from where I am sitting at this moment. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/62 "2020-10-28T06:14:15Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > share state lines with 2 other ignorant red states. Omaha (I can say this, I’m from the same state) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/63 "2020-10-28T06:34:25Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I live in a state that is best known to outsiders for three former residents who weren’t from here: > > - A tall skinny guy from Kentucky and Indiana That’s all I need: Illinois, land of Lincoln. ---
**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, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/64 "2020-10-28T07:21:02Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > 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. > [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Omaha (I can say this, I’m from the same state) Nope, wrong river and Omaha only shares a border with one other red state. My city shares a border with 2, each less than 20 miles from where I am right now. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/65 "2020-10-28T07:28:49Z")
I live in a place consisting mainly of a humid, stinking swamp connected to the coast by fifty miles of oil refineries, and that in any given year may be subject to a biblical flood, a hurricane or both. But we have pretty good barbecue, so there’s that. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/66 "2020-10-28T11:56:14Z")
Do you also have a gorilla? ---
**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, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/67 "2020-10-28T11:58:13Z")
There is a gorilla, yes. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/68 "2020-10-28T12:04:48Z")
I live in the city where two oceans meet. Only they don’t. Where we have a Doctor to clear the air, and the mountain is the only one with its own constellation (first named in my suburb). > [@Gyrate](#): > > There is a gorilla, yes. Hah! And a Bowl, no doubt… ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/69 "2020-10-28T12:08:29Z")
In my city (Montreal) - many of the suburbs/regions are known simply by their initials - the full (usually French) name takes too long to say. I live in NDG (“Notre-Dame de Gtace”); when you live in TMR (“Town of Mount Royal”, or simply “the Town”) you’ve made the big time (it’s still called a “town” with a population of 20k+), and if you live in RDP, PAT, or DDO - you’re a long way from the centre of the city. ---
**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, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/70 "2020-10-28T13:09:10Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Hah! And a Bowl, no doubt… And a maze. Quite a good one, too. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/71 "2020-10-28T16:07:58Z")
I’m not there anymore, but I used to live midway between Possum Trot and Monkey’s Eyebrow. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/72 "2020-10-28T16:56:03Z")
Voltaire described it as “Quelques arpents de neige” (a few acres of snow). ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/73 "2020-10-28T16:57:12Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > Omaha only shares a border with one other red state. My city shares a border with 2, each less than 20 miles from where I am right now. 😀 Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa and Kansas make _four_ red states Nebraska shares borders with. Technically five, since we have a tiny bit of border with Missouri too. Not that I’m happy about that mind you. I agree with you, the Missouri is the wrong river compared to the Mississip. Grand old girl she is. I was born in Dubuque, almost within sight of her. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/74 "2020-10-28T16:59:13Z")
> [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > I live in NDG (“Notre-Dame de Gtace”); It should be called “Notre Dame de Glace”, but is actually “Notre Dame de Grace”. By your standards, I guess I’ve made it, living in the “Town”. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/75 "2020-10-28T17:05:26Z")
I was born and raised in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of western MA. Now? I live in the Midwest which is, as my brother would put it, “flatter than Hepburn”. If you could lay a Level across the horizon, the air bubble would be perfectly centered. It is a featureless, flat expanse that has absolutely no beauty whatsoever. “But it’s the nation’s breadbasket!”, people rush to say. Sure, but would you want to live in your breadbasket? ---
**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 28, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/76 "2020-10-28T17:06:46Z")
I was going to guess Capetown, but I don’t think that’s quite right. ☹ ---
**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 28, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/77 "2020-10-28T17:09:21Z")
Ha! When I lived in Missouri, we had borders with 8 states. I think only one of them is blue. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/78 "2020-10-28T17:42:12Z")
Yeah, I lived there too, for four years of college. Imagine this Iowa girl’s surprise when I got there and found out that it was The South in no uncertain terms. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/79 "2020-10-28T17:50:48Z")
My first year in grad school I shared an office with a Canadian who wrote this on one of our blackboards and kept it up there all year. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/80 "2020-10-28T17:51:16Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Voltaire described it as “Quelques arpents de neige” (a few acres of snow). My first year in grad school I shared an office with a Canadian who wrote this on one of our blackboards and kept it up there all year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982.md?page=5)