Most of the Texans I know would say you damn right it is, son.If you want to get a Texan to fur up tell them they don't live in the West. It should be it't own geographical area.
Most of the Texans I know would say you damn right it is, son.If you want to get a Texan to fur up tell them they don't live in the West. It should be it't own geographical area.
The usual problem is when people say things like "around here" in posts and don't have any reference. As long as you're avoiding that, I suppose it doesn't matter where people are. Still nice to know though, just out of general curiosity - maybe at least a region would be good, like Northeast, or Mid-A, or the South,, etc.Except I don’t have a “usually” ski place!
Unless you count Colorado... where I do not live, nor skied more than half my days...( the only thing significant about Colorado is I ski there practically every season for the past 20 years, even if it’s only a few days. But then, the same can almost be said about Vermont — though only if you throw NH into it)
A better way than to say ”around here” is to say “around (region/state/city) where I live”. It’s just a couple extra words which gives a more meaningful location context than just where one lives.The usual problem is when people say things like "around here" in posts and don't have any reference. As long as you're avoiding that, I suppose it doesn't matter where people are. Still nice to know though, just out of general curiosity - maybe at least a region would be good, like Northeast, or Mid-A, or the South,, etc.
Sure... but you just telling those stories about the variation between parks around where you live has me wondering where that is. Natural curiosity for more info I guess.So if I were talking about people’s behaviors in one of the parks, it’s entirely UN-representative of “around here” of where I live!
It’s natural to be curious. But it’s much less “natural” to satisfy such curiosity of strangers lacking compelling justification.Sure... but you just telling those stories about the variation between parks around where you live has me wondering where that is. Natural curiosity for more info I guess.
I accept it because it's not my choice. It's yours - you're obviously free to not share that information.I’m no more willing to satisfy your curiosity in revealing where those parks are than revealing my bank account balance (not even to the order of magnitude). I would expect you understand and accept the latter. So I hope you accept the former as well.
Exactly!I guess for us outside the USA it soon becomes clear that if we don't make it clear we are talking about a separate country it can cause confusion.
Not going to happen.
And for the people who DO put a location, please be fairly clear.
If you put the city, add the state/province/equivalent and country.
There are too many cities with similar names, or people simply might not know your town.
Same with nicknames/descriptors for locations, please make sure they are understood by people from all over the world.
Or Naples...We wouldn't want to mistake Wellington, Florida with Wellington, New Zealand would we
This list is interesting:There’s at least 26 towns called ‘Berlin’ in the US. I’ve been to four of them.
Here’s a map with all 26 Berlins we could find in the USA - GermanyinUSA
“Ich bin ein Berliner!” (“I am a Berliner!”) said John F. Kennedy during his visit to Berlin in 1963. As it turns out, he’s not the only American that can make this claim. According to the German-American Heritage Museum, German speakers began arriving in North America in the 1600’s. Today...germanyinusa.com