What's the strangest thing about where you grew up?

[migirl]

It was totally normal for kids to miss school on opening day of deer hunting season.


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[oceanchild]

Well, I'm from the only state with legalized prostitution, so there's that...

(illegal in the county where I mostly grew up, however)

[WolfpackWife]

Through elementary, middle, and high school in central NC, the ACC tournament was grounds to stop class and watch the games. Literally you'd go from one class to another and each room would have the game(s) on. That actually translated into my working life after I graduated from college and moved back home, the games were regularly broadcast in our office area/break area and then when I worked at one of the major hospitals in the area? Oh yeah, the tourney was on EVERYWHERE...you'd walk through the hospital and hear cheers from one area or another. ACC basketball is a very, very serious business at home.

[GreyhoundsRUs]

After reading this, the strangest thing is that there was really nothing strange

[SoonerTexan]

Okay, maybe the names of some of the towns I've lived in. Broken Arrow and Flower Mound were a few.(Yes, there is a mound of flowers (weeds) surrounded by a big iron fence that says "The Flower Mound" on it)

[Sheherezade]

I've told my kids several times that where I grew up football wasn't a big deal in high school. I had no idea who the jocks were or the cheerleaders. It was all about the beach. Social life revolved around what street you parked at to hit the beach and the principal would take his surfboard to the beach some days and hand out detentions to people skipping school.

Kind of tough on a pudgy redhead, all that sunshine.


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[alison]

Seattle. Home of the passive aggressive! We have it down to an art form.

[houseelf]

Seattle. Home of the passive aggressive! We have it down to an art form.

Have you been to Minnesota? Seriously, it is the most bizarre thing in the world. People are smiling and polite but the words coming out of their mouth are strangely antagonistic. It is such a cognitive disconnect. Anyway, in a passive aggressive fest, I'd lay money on a Minnesotan over a PNW-er any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

[WolfpackWife]

^^have you been to the south? We're famous for the backhanded comment, padded with innocuous well wishes.

"Poor thing has gained about 60 pounds and doesn't carry it well at all, bless her heart."
"He didn't seem very bright, bless his heart."

[MsSassyBaskets]

Have you been to Minnesota? Seriously, it is the most bizarre thing in the world. People are smiling and polite but the words coming out of their mouth are strangely antagonistic. It is such a cognitive disconnect. Anyway, in a passive aggressive fest, I'd lay money on a Minnesotan over a PNW-er any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

See, I'm familiar with this stereotype, but I lived in MN for 10 years and did not feel this at all! I always thought people were pretty friendly and direct, though they wouldn't always say what was on their minds. I've definitely seen the "eyebrows-up-I'm judging-you-but-not-saying-anything" look, but I didn't get a lot of passive aggression.

[LadyFoot]

^^have you been to the south? We're famous for the backhanded comment, padded with innocuous well wishes.

"Poor thing has gained about 60 pounds and doesn't carry it well at all, bless her heart."
"He didn't seem very bright, bless his heart."

My MIL (from Alabama) says "bless his/her heart" ALL THE TIME! Her mother is ever worse (she usually adds, "well lan' sakes alive" with it). It cracks me up.

My hometown is a pretty uninteresting small suburb, but do have the distinction of having at least 3 Olympic medalists from the town (including one of the "Magnificent Seven" gymnasts from 1996, who were my heroes growing up). Also, we had a freaking awesome marching band. It was WAY cooler to be in the band than to be a cheerleader or football player.

[MrsC]

The town nearest to where I grew up has 16 pubs on it's main street. The street is about a mile long. This is in Ireland.
Great for a pub crawl though.

[medpedspouse]

My hometown actually has neighborhood (ahem, communities) where kids are not allowed. When we would visit my aunt, we had to stay in her little garden home backyard and not squeal or make much noise.

[ladymoreta]

My hometown was the winter home for several circuses. We drove past elephants, giraffes, and zebras every day. There were the circus kids who only attended school while the circus was not touring. They now have an elephant refuge and breeding program there as well, which is funded by one of the circuses.

The town cemetery was also the place where the bull riders Freckles Brown and Lane Frost were buried.

[L.Jane]

My hometown is known as the place with out an accent. Its the "accent" all tv reporters try to attain. Which oddly, if you don't speak in that "accent" isn't it an accent? lol

Its also the tester state. By this I mean companies use our area to test everything on earth before they farm it out to the rest of the country. My favorite as a kid is the KenTacoHut. Thats the building that houses a Kentucky fried chicken, taco bell, and pizza hut in one building. It was the big hang out in middle school and beginning of high school. I have now seen two combined in locations through out the country but never seen all three combined anywhere else.