# Why won't you tell us where you're from? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 28, 2006, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-you-tell-us-where-youre-from/374474 "2006-09-28T06:09:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-you-tell-us-where-youre-from/374474/101 "2006-10-04T04:30:18Z")
For some reason, I thought I’d go ahead and say it twice. 🙂 We’re enjoying our droplets of “sunshine” here right now. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-you-tell-us-where-youre-from/374474/102 "2006-10-04T14:55:33Z")
I originally listed the city and state of my residence, but thought it was really meaningless to people. I think my current location listing gives better context for the mindless drivel I usually post. For the record, I live just outside of Sterling, Colorado, a small but slowly growing city of about 14,000 up in the northeast corner of the state. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-you-tell-us-where-youre-from/374474/103 "2006-10-04T15:04:25Z")
[QUOTE=Oregon sunshine] For some reason, I thought I’d go ahead and say it twice. 🙂 We’re enjoying our droplets of “sunshine” here right now. [/QUOTE] We lived in Coos Bay for about a year – couldn’t take any more of that Oregon Sunshine. My wife and I are both Colorado natives, where we have more than 250 days of sunshine a year. When we were in Coos Bay in February 1998 and hit Day 32 without seeing blue sky, we rented the U-Haul. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-you-tell-us-where-youre-from/374474/104 "2006-10-07T23:53:13Z")
[QUOTE=ltfire] Feel free to GOOGLE mine. [/QUOTE] I’m coming over for dinner Monday night! wait, no i got a plane to catch to Itatly… damn But seriously, I list my location as Boston, when technically I live in Somerville. It’s a suburb immediately outside of the city, but for generalizations I thought it would be easier for people who are not from the area. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-you-tell-us-where-youre-from/374474/105 "2006-10-08T00:48:37Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000] … But seriously, I list my location as Boston, when technically I live in Somerville. It’s a suburb immediately outside of the city, but for generalizations I thought it would be easier for people who are not from the area. [/QUOTE] Yeah, for a long time I listed my location as “Suburb of Boston”. I’m not comfortable giving the name of the small town I live in but there is enough info in my current location that anyone interested can figure out my general area with a quick Google. ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-you-tell-us-where-youre-from/374474/106 "2006-10-08T00:51:57Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000] I’m coming over for dinner Monday night! wait, no i got a plane to catch to Itatly… damn But seriously, I list my location as Boston, when technically I live in Somerville. It’s a suburb immediately outside of the city, but for generalizations I thought it would be easier for people who are not from the area. [/QUOTE] Heh..after today, the doors will be locked until the Spring of 2007. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-you-tell-us-where-youre-from/374474/107 "2006-10-08T06:03:18Z")
I don’t put mine for several reasons. All of which, I believe, have been covered by other posters already. 1. I tend to change my location as the mood strikes me and I do, from time to time, have my real location up there. 2. For most of my posts my location is irrelevent anyway. 3. I’ve only mentioned NY about, I dunno, a million times. It’s not a big secret. I am the exact same person here that I am live and in person so I could just as easily use my real name and location, but where’s the fun in that? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-you-tell-us-where-youre-from/374474/108 "2006-10-08T19:23:13Z")
Don’t put me in that category…you only need look at my location to see where I have lived in the past 40 years. I do it so when I join in a discussion about Chicago or New York or Berlin or LA or Las Vegas, people will at least know that I have lived there and am not talking about what my cousin’s neighbor’s brother-in-law once told me. ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-you-tell-us-where-youre-from/374474/109 "2006-10-08T20:25:58Z")
Because, while I live in Andover, Minnesota, my home is a place we call The Pines - 2+ acres of an old pine plantation that surrounds us. I don’t really give a rip about Andover, but The Pines has my heart… ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-you-tell-us-where-youre-from/374474/110 "2006-10-08T22:47:05Z")
I’m not comfortable giving the name of the exact suburb I live in, but my location tag and post content give enough of an idea as to where I am at any particular point in time. I’m not too worried about my current location tag as it covers upwards of 2.5 million people and you’d only have a 50/50 shot at guessing what state my license plate says. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-you-tell-us-where-youre-from/374474.md?page=5)