# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![CorpusNeptune](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corpusneptune/32/17561_2.png) [@CorpusNeptune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CorpusNeptune)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/142 "2020-11-12T14:25:07Z")
We like aged milk curds a lot. -Baleaf ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/143 "2020-11-12T15:14:18Z")
I live close enough to Washington D.C. that I would be killed by any atomic bomb that would be dropped on it during World War III. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/144 "2020-12-30T07:38:56Z")
I live about a block and a half away from the house that usually seems to get my mail. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/145 "2020-12-31T16:22:41Z")
My location started as a lumbering town, and was originally named for an engineer. It later rose to greater prominence because of its distance away from the country to the south. My immediate area has a Spanish name even though Spanish is not a local language. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/146 "2020-12-31T18:39:27Z")
I’m about 2 miles as the crow flies from old Sarah’s mysterious place and around a mile from where the sharks are tanked. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/147 "2020-12-31T22:01:03Z")
We’ve got 2 colleges and a bunch of hippies in our little blue town in the middle of a red area. Sometimes called 10 square miles surrounded by reality. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/148 "2021-01-01T00:22:27Z")
It’s flat, paved over, bloodstained, and used to smell like onions. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/149 "2021-01-01T01:28:17Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > (You’re going to regret this:) > > I live right about where the Nation’s Wang would be getting its circumcision. Howdy Neighbor! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/150 "2021-01-01T01:43:12Z")
^ Are you the one setting off the fireworks? How about give it a break for a half hour so’s I can let my dogs go bizness? 😁 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/151 "2021-01-01T01:50:40Z")
Sounds like a war zone outside here too. Not me. Floridiots all of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/152 "2021-01-01T02:15:39Z")
I live within 1250 km of Toronto. StG ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/153 "2021-01-01T04:23:32Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Sounds like a war zone outside here too. Not me. Floridiots all of 'em. Be glad you’re in Florida and they’re using fireworks. In Texas, they fire guns up in the air at midnight. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/154 "2021-01-01T06:50:35Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > We’ve got 2 colleges and a bunch of hippies in our little blue town in the middle of a red area. Sometimes called 10 square miles surrounded by reality. Frequently described as “centrally isolated”? I live somewhere inbetween there and a village named for two groups of people who decided to settle down together instead of fighting each other. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/155 "2021-01-01T15:58:17Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Be glad you’re in Florida and they’re using fireworks. In Texas, they fire guns up in the air at midnight. I’m sure there’s a bunch of that here too, but more in the (semi-)rural areas vs. deepest darkest suburbia where I am. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/156 "2021-01-01T16:15:10Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I’m about 2 miles as the crow flies from old Sarah’s mysterious place and around a mile from where the sharks are tanked. Going from memory, since I left San Jose 15 years ago, but it sounds like you’re somewhere off of Stevens Creek Blvd/West San Carlos St (don’t remember where the name changes, is it Bascom?) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/157 "2021-01-01T16:27:06Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > > [@blondebear](#): > > > > I’m about 2 miles as the crow flies from old Sarah’s mysterious place and around a mile from where the sharks are tanked. > > Going from memory, since I left San Jose 15 years ago, but it sounds like you’re somewhere off of Stevens Creek Blvd/West San Carlos St (don’t remember where the name changes, is it Bascom?) Very close! My profile location is Meridian/280, which is just down the street. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/158 "2021-01-01T16:44:57Z")
I grew up at an intersection that doesn’t exist, between two roads that lack their names, in a house that’s one of two that is one, not two, in a forest in a city that isn’t named after its namesake, next to a sea whose water lies above its salt. (Yes, this could pinpoint the house, but if you figure it out that precisely, please just PM it, not post it in the thread) ---
**Author:** ![Dinoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@Dinoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinoguy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/159 "2021-01-01T16:48:04Z")
I live 5 miles east of resume speed, where buzzards stop at the caution light and big semis roll down Main Street and the goats outnumber the humans. When we came here we raised the local IQ 50% and the main business is cooking meth. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/160 "2021-01-01T19:51:37Z")
That’s it. But your clue has me stumped. I’m not from here originally, so didn’t osmos the history like I did from where I grew up. I’m guessing you’re someplace west of me, a lake or two over. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/161 "2021-01-01T21:58:04Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > I’m guessing you’re someplace west of me, a lake or two over. Yup. Two, if we count the one you’re on – arguably three, to the place of the clue. And I doubt many even of those who grew up where you are would get that clue immediately. People from the villages generally know about the cities for a further distance than people from the cities know about the villages. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982.md?page=9)