Frenso, CA and Boston, MA … what kind a test is this?
Frenso and Boston … hello ???
Took the test again and changed the offending answer, Frenso and Arlington, so closer …
First time I ever saw one was in Boston, and I’ve always called them rotaries ever since. Frenso is close enough to where I grew up.
It pegged me within, I’d guess, 75 miles or so. The 3 locations it placed kind of surrounded where I actually am!
Same 3 for me. Like LavenderBlue, I spent early years in Queens and since, just a little east of robardin on Long Island.
Yeah, they sure did. But it didn’t actually take up any of the area where the shooters shot from or where the four were killed. That area was still open space the last time I was there… which was 23 years ago. The massive gym building is immediately adjacent to the hallowed ground and kind of seems like it’s crowding it. I was there for the 20th anniversary observances. The governor of Ohio, Richard Celeste, showed up on May 4 to commemorate the memory of the slain students. I used to visit that hillside a lot when I was in Kent and it always gave me a cold chill.
Interesting. I expected it to be thrown way off by me, since I was born in Cleveland but had lived in four different states (two in the South, two in the North) by the time I was eight - including a stint back in the Cleveland area (I claim Hudson as my hometown). I didn’t pick up much, I guess, because it has northern Ohio as a patch of blue.
However, it does give me Georgia, South Carolina and, strongest, North Carolina - Greensboro and Winston-Salem. All of my Dad’s family is from North Carolina, and I went to college in North Carolina. (Not Greensboro or Winston-Salem, but my sister went to college in Greensboro).
And I’ve lived in Georgia for the past thirty years.
It cited 3 cities in southeast Florida. I grew up in Baltimore county - my family has been in the Baltimore area since the early 1900s when they emigrated from Poland. So it guessed way wrong!!
What’s funny is that so many people in this thread have Modesto as a city, but I don’t. I’ve lived here for over 20 years now. It listed San Jose for me, with some red near Seattle, where I was born.
Rockford, Illinois
Omaha, Nebraska
Reno, Nevada
Not bad - I was born and raised near Chicago, close to Rockford,
Never been t Omaha, but our family didn’t use a lot of “slang”, so perhaps it is a milder mid-west accent there?
And I currently live in Vegas, thus Reno isn’t far off. I think the question that threw me off was calling carbonated drinks “pop” or “soda”…growing up it was “pop”, but living out west so long, nobody even knows what the hell “pop” is, so I sort of dropped that from my vocabulary and now it even sounds weird to me when someone says “pop”.
New York, Baton Rouge and Jersey City.
Who’d thunk that from a 7th generation Aussie?
The question is really
“Your education was in a school as good as the schools at these cities”…
I got Salt Lake and Boise, not bad considering I live about half way between the two.
I got those two, plus Spokane. I grew up between Boise and Spokane, but most of the other kids in my neighborhood were Mormons.
I grew up in Atlanta til I was 13 and lived in Chicago for a few years in my 20s. The test says I’m from the New England area though.
Actually, it’s a spanish word. It’s used in California, referring to Mom and Pop stores in the barrios of east LA.
I’ve only heard it in the LA area and I’ve lived and visited much of the US.
The same cities for me although I am from South Africa
Both times, New York City and Yonkers. The third was Philadelphia one time and Newark the other.
“Bodega” is not such a great question for New York City. Not only is the word almost certainly used in other areas, other words are also commonly used in NYC for stores selling those same things - deli,newsstand,etc
I tried it twice and it shut down about 80% of the way through. The it suddenly came back with a result - dead on.
I think it would work pretty well to peg you as an East Coaster or New Yorker, as long as the other questions are consistent. I’ve personally only heard the term from New Yorkers or people who have lived in New York myself. Besides, it’s not like these questions have only one correct answer. The answer “deli” and “newsstand” can also help identify you from New York (although it’s probably too generic a term to narrow it down too much), but an answer of “bodega” would much more strongly point in that direction. For example, folks in Chicago call the fizzy drink both “pop” and “soda.” I grew up with the word “soda.” My aunt says “pop.” If you answer “pop” to the quiz, that will more strongly point you to the Midwest/Great Lakes states/and possibly Northwest, but saying “soda” would certainly not disqualify you from the Chicago area, as it’s also a common term there.
It’s got me in Cleveland (dead-on) with deep south influences (Houston and Jackson, MS). My actual southern influences are from Mobile and Tuscaloosa, but all in all, not bad.