# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/162 "2021-01-02T03:30:21Z")
I live at the far western edge of the Eastern time zone, much closer to Rabbit Town than Rabbit Hash. ---
**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 2, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/163 "2021-01-02T16:07:15Z")
I think I got it. Is the village named after people from the south of us and people from the east of us? ---
**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 2, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/164 "2021-01-02T17:10:19Z")
I think you’ve got it, too. Abbreviated forms of both names. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/165 "2021-01-02T17:18:55Z")
And now I know how that village got its name! I always wondered (though not enough to look it up, till now) and would not have guessed. Cool! ---
**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 2, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/166 "2021-01-02T17:32:21Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > My city is often referred to as “Halfway up the [name of large river you’ll recognize]” although it is actually only about one quarter of the way up. It sits at one end of a bridge that is supposedly the longest in the world of its type. It’s also difficult to spell and pronounce. > [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > And now I know how that village got its name! I always wondered (though not enough to look it up, till now) Hmmmm. Given the evidence from the second post quoted that you’re probably somewhere in the very general area, combined with the last line of the first post, I thought for a minute that I had you. But the bridge and river don’t line up – I’d have had you on a lake, and I don’t seem to find such a bridge. So that guess must be wrong. There are admittedly a lot of places in this state that are hard to pronounce and spell. – oh, wait a minute, starting from there, I think I do have you! (and if so, I used to live near there; though I certainly never heard of the village with the odd name until I moved a lot closer to it.) Is the bridge known for a walkway? ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/167 "2021-01-02T17:39:03Z")
Yes indeedy! Excellent work. To be honest I’d forgotten I’d posted to this thread back in October. Good for you for finding the post. I only know about “your” village because I like maps, and because once when we were looking for a new rector at my church we came close to calling someone who’d worked there. Doesn’t come up in conversation very often around here otherwise:) ---
**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 2, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/168 "2021-01-02T17:47:06Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > Good for you for finding the post. If you click on somebody’s name or avatar above any one of their posts, one of the thing that shows up is the number of posts they made in the thread. Click on that, (I discovered recently reading another thread), and it shows you those posts. – if I hadn’t lived so close to where you are, I wouldn’t have thought of that city as one of the places ‘hard to spell or pronounce’. Growing up where I did, I didn’t think of it as particularly hard to spell or pronounce until I started being in other areas and discovered that everybody else thought so – one person I ran into thought it was a made-up funny name and was very surprised to find out it was a real place. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/169 "2021-01-03T22:56:47Z")
I live two hours south of a town known for its rocks, minerals, and radioactive Chinese restaurant; north across the bay from an area known for its wineries and rich people escaping from the capital city; and twenty minutes west of the birthplace of the Great Peacemaker. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/170 "2021-01-03T23:00:17Z")
Bonjour! ---
**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 3, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/171 "2021-01-03T23:45:30Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > twenty minutes west of the birthplace of the Great Peacemaker. First two sets of clues didn’t help me any, but with that one I’m pretty sure I’ve got at least your general area. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2021, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/172 "2021-01-04T01:32:54Z")
I’m in the middle of a cornfield. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2021, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/173 "2021-01-04T05:28:51Z")
Well, THAT narrows it down! 🙂 Guessing you’re not in the middle of the Sargasso Sea, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/174 "2021-01-04T13:45:34Z")
Okay, I’m in the middle of a cornfield in central Indiana. 😄 ---
**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 4, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/175 "2021-01-04T16:38:33Z")
^ You’re a scarecrow? (Or, maybe **He Who Walks Behind The Rows**.) ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/176 "2021-01-19T00:45:57Z")
According to Will Rogers, I live where the west begins (well, at least a suburb nearby) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982.md?page=8)