# Hey, that's my home town! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [May 16, 2021, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-thats-my-home-town/942212 "2021-05-16T10:44:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 46
**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:** [May 18, 2021, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-thats-my-home-town/942212/46 "2021-05-18T00:50:42Z")
The thread I cite below is from early this year on a different but related topic. Which in turn cites to an earlier thread on yet another different but related topic. Folks interested in the stuff in this current thread might like either or both of those others: > [@Shows or film that were actually filmed in the place where they are set](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-or-film-that-were-actually-filmed-in-the-place-where-they-are-set/930764): > > In the thread “[Subtle inaccuracies in depictions of your city/region in fiction](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subtle-inaccuracies-in-depictions-of-your-city-region-in-fiction/930508/143)” many of the examples are of shows that were filmed in places that don’t really look like the place they’re supposed to be set. I mentioned Breaking Bad as a counterexample, as a show that actually was filmed where it was set (or perhaps more accurately, set where it was filmed, since Vince Gilligan decided to change the setting to Albuquerque after deciding to shoot in New Mexico for financial reasons). So, not wa… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-thats-my-home-town/942212)._