That we are all chavs.
That there is a second “e” in “Fredonia” (New York). The most common conceptions of Orlando and Melbourne are true (i.e. mostly tourism, surfing, and defense contractors), although when I went to England there were some people who didn’t get just how hot Florida got – they acted surprised when I said that I wish my 100-mile walk in mid-june had been held a few weeks earlier, so my training would have been closer to the run and not during a time when it was impossible to run/walk more than 10/20 miles due to the heat.
That people from my town start one-liner threads on random message boards in the manner a full-grown Great Dane pissing on a lawn.
Folks assume we know what the hell a “chav” is.
Same one as every other town: That people here are worse drives than anywhere else. And that the weather here is more unpredictable than anywhere else.
Oh, BTW, just wondering: Does the OP mean misconceptions harbored by residents of the town, or by other people?
That the famous guy who was born here (this little town’s only claim to fame, they have a statue and a museum) actually gave a shit. He moved away the moment he got the chance.
Same here. I wonder if we’re in the same town.
That it’s a filthy hellhole of hot summer weather and filled with churches, Republicans and Trump supporters.
It’s not really filthy.
Brit for white trash thugs.
I don’t think anybody in town has much of a misconception. The rest of the state thinks it’s nothing but farms, which it was once upon a time, quite famous farms actually, but all that’s left is a small parcel the town owns.
That people in my town don’t drink.
They do drink, they just don’t buy.
That science fiction authors get their ideas from a post office box here.
It’s actually in Scotia.
Is that you, Stony?
I live close enough to Cleveland that I get asked about it. Where do I start? OK, “Does the river still burn?”
Dennis
For Pamplona, there are both people who think the kind of partying that takes place in Sanfermines is there year long minus bulls and tourists, and people who are surprised that the town doesn’t somehow puff away for 51 and a half weeks a year.
For Tudela, we don’t just grow lettuce. And tomato. And asparagus. And artichokes. We grow the best veggies in the world (and we’re not conceited, it just happens to be the truth*), but that area is pretty heavily industrialized as well.
For Navarre in general, many people think that because it’s in “the North”, it’s a cold, green place. Not all of it: we’ve had people filming Game of Thrones and it was all Dothraki this, Dothraki that. Second most-filmed desert in Spain, we joke that we’re the second option when Almeria is already full.
Barcelona is in Spain, at least for now and likely for quite a while. If you’ve been to Barcelona and you tell me “someday I’d like to visit Spain”, I will file you under I for Imbecile. Mind you, the same holds for Tenerife, where I haven’t been.
- what? We keep winning the agricultural contests!
There are probably a few of them 
I’m in the UK and this was one of an early 20th century comedy duo.
That this is a great tourist destination. A fact inexplicably held by both the Council and a load of snowbirds. (it’s a shithole)
That big cooling tower on the lake? It’s not a nuclear power plant.
That we don’t live year round under a mountain of snow.
This seems an utterly useless discussion without the context of what city/town/location you’re in.
(Props to Nava, and anyone else who provided their location so readers could have some actual context!)
(Maybe it’s just me though…carry on regardless!)