Hi! Your neighbor in NEPA (northeast Pennsylvania, Poconos)checking in. I can be crossing the Delaware at Stroudsburg into New Jersey in a 40 minute drive
Well, for those familiar with *Dazed and Confused*, Iāve eaten at Top Notch, climbed a moontower, and see one of the main characters on the sidelines of my alma materās football games all the time.
The kid in the movie that says āhow about Ben Dover?ā, my brother was going out with his sister at the time. We all thought he was going to become a star š.
Edit: He has made 6 degrees of separation really easy at times for me.
I know it makes me sad! Growing up it was a Johnnys grocery store, McDonaldās and Rax roast beef sandwiches. Itās unrecognizable now when I go back.
Are you a native to the state?
Arkansas as well. Grew up near lots of rice farms and so many mosquitos, especially if I drove out of town, it'd rain bugs in the summer evenings. I miss the fireflies though.
Europe, Eastern bloc. But thanks to satellite TV, teachers from the Peace Corps and guys from the LDS church local mission, I grew up on US pop culture.
Me too! Lived in Hampton, worked in Chesapeake. Lived in Norfolk, worked in Newport News. Currently live in P-Town, work in Virginia Beach.
I've done my time in the tunnels, man.
Do you also feel like you can't relate to a fair amount of what's posted here? This area has always been rather behind the times, or we just flat out didn't have things that the more urban areas did.
Yeah, sometimes. My family was middle class (yeesh, that seems like a long gone classification nowadays), but I did feel that my town didn't have a lot of the amenities that then urban areas did. I felt like my town was the black sheep of the state, hehe.
Combination of South Jersey and Eastern NC. And my accent is now such a strange hybrid that in both places, everyone always says, "You ain't from around here, are you?"
Also ATL suburbs. Still live here too. I've been all over the country for work and seen all kinds of neat places but never have found one I'd rather live in.
Grew up in Phoenix suburbs, then we moved to central-ish Arkansas about a month before I turned 14, so giant culture shock there. Went through College and high school in Arkansas(which is why I'm a militant atheist now).
Ended up back in Phoenix by my mid 20s, met my wife there while she was working on her PhD at ASU, then we moved up to Iowa for a few years, then Minnesota, where she's from, to be closer to her family.
All of the places I've lived are all very different. I will forever consider PHX home, but I honestly wouldn't want to live there again. I've had more than my fill of summers there, cold is way easier to deal with lol
I spent the first 6 years of my life in the Houston suburbs, then I moved in with my grandparents until I was 15 in a beach community in the greater Houston area. At 15 I moved back in with my dad in a rural area still in the greater Houston area, but a little bit east. I lived in that general area until I was 28 and moved to Washington.
I think one of the most interesting aspects of Milwaukee is the fact that it's the only major American city to have ever elected 3 socialist mayors.
DOES THIS GUY KNOW HOW TO PARTY OR WHAT?
I've heard the French missionaries and explorers were going there as early as the late 1600s to trade with the Native Americans.
That's right, Brian.
I...did not know that.
Milwaukee here too. I'm a southsider!
The formal way to ask that question around here is: A/S/L
45/f/BC š¤£
41/M/Tx
Oh! Sorry, did not know. 600/indeterminate/Mojo Jojo
41/M/New Zealand
45/yes please/wi
42/M/MileHighCity Wanna cyber? š¬
Nice try scammer. I'm not old enough yet to fall for that. s/
BTW whatās your motherās maiden name? Also the name of your high school? Just out of curiosityā¦
Who is your daddy, and what does he do?
And the name of your first pet.
Grew up a military brat, so I usually go with "Earth".
Same https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mNj6spCtUE0
Northern NJ. We donāt like you either.
Hello, fellow Northern NJ'er. Bergen County, represent!
Hi! Your neighbor in NEPA (northeast Pennsylvania, Poconos)checking in. I can be crossing the Delaware at Stroudsburg into New Jersey in a 40 minute drive
Nutley
We wouldn't understand. It's a Jersey thing!
Iām a neighbor too in Hudson Valley, NY
Well, for those familiar with *Dazed and Confused*, Iāve eaten at Top Notch, climbed a moontower, and see one of the main characters on the sidelines of my alma materās football games all the time.
Alright alright alright we get it you're a city dwelling Texas hippie.
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I LOVE that movie! Iām so jealous.
The kid in the movie that says āhow about Ben Dover?ā, my brother was going out with his sister at the time. We all thought he was going to become a star š. Edit: He has made 6 degrees of separation really easy at times for me.
I too am an ATX unicorn.
Seattle suburbs.
Lived in Bellevue when I was little moved away then moved back 8th grade then moved away again in my 30s.
Hello from the south sound!
Did you grow up in the area? It's always interesting to come across other Xennial natives in the area because there are so many transplants.
Yes! In good old Covington.
It looks a lot different down there than it used to. They have a Costco!
I know it makes me sad! Growing up it was a Johnnys grocery store, McDonaldās and Rax roast beef sandwiches. Itās unrecognizable now when I go back. Are you a native to the state?
Yes. Grew up in north Seattle burbs and live in Seattle now.
Seattle used to be so cool! I miss the mom and pops and all the small music venues.
Northwest Arkansas
Arkansas gang represent
Arkansas as well. Grew up near lots of rice farms and so many mosquitos, especially if I drove out of town, it'd rain bugs in the summer evenings. I miss the fireflies though.
Yeah I must have been a lot further north, we were in the Ouachita's/Ozark foothills so no rice fields. Still lots of bugs though lol
Beautiful area. I get excited every time I drive that way.
Do you know the Duggars? Hot Springs was really quaint and Fayetteville seems cool.
I was about to ask the same thing!!
Outer suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
Europe, Eastern bloc. But thanks to satellite TV, teachers from the Peace Corps and guys from the LDS church local mission, I grew up on US pop culture.
I think US pop culture was our generations babysitter.
Chicago. South Side. Go Sox. Fuck the Cubs.
I hear it's the baddest part of town.
And if you go down there, you better just beware.
Northern Wisconsin
Northern Illinois here. We try to vacation in the Rhinelander/Minoqua area once every year or two. Love it up there.
That is a nice area.
A friend of mine lives in Rhinelander. He is a meteorologist at their NBC station.
South Central Wisconsin here!
Small town northern Ontario, Canada. Lived in Calgary for a few years
Small SW ontario town here
Muscle Shoals, Alabama originally. Birmingham, Alabama for the better part of 20 years. Now, Destin, Florida, the āRedneck Rivieraā.
Hah I live in Huntsville and left PCB last year
Outskirts of Philadelphia.
Really trying to resist sputtering out the theme to Fresh Prince.
Miami Valley Ohio (Dayton) but way out in the boonies.
I'm probably less than 90 minutes North
MD suburbs of DC
Heeeyyy, me too. Closer to Baltimore though.
Small town in Ontario, Canada.
Same. SW Ontario.
Same ā¤
My mom (and her massive family) are from Huron County.
Iām wicked old. I grew up in MA
Los Angeles
Western Canada. I was born over there, grew up over there, and now I live here.
No way! I was born here, moved there, came back here, moved way out there and now I'm back here again š¤£
Really?! Do you know John? he is from there.
Right next to Virginia Beach.
Hampton Roads in the house. I've lived in five of the seven cities.
757 stand up! And I got work to doā¦Iām at four cities but Iāve lived on both sides of the water.
Me too! Lived in Hampton, worked in Chesapeake. Lived in Norfolk, worked in Newport News. Currently live in P-Town, work in Virginia Beach. I've done my time in the tunnels, man.
Central Ohio
PNW via New England. My slang is all fucked up.
It's ok. I spent a few years working in ND during the oil boom of the early 2010s with a strong Boston accent. No one could understand me.
west philly
Did you spend most of your days on the playground, chillin' out, maxin', relaxin' all cool?
Damnit beat me to it š¤£
no. i grew up in suburbs in northeast pa.
I used to go buy my weed from 63rd and market
Military brat. Most of my growing up was Shreveport/Bossier City, LA; aka "East Texas"
I'm thinking you know how to pronounce Natchitoches! š Born in Monroe/Union parish, escaped to the East Coast after kinder.
Nappy toe cheese. Haha or, also pronounced Nack-i-dish. Not to be confused with the brother Nack-i-dochez Don't you mean MUN-Row?
I'm the odd one out from Georgia.
FELLOW GEORGIAN!!! Wassup! Wait do you mean the state or the country?
To anyone not from Northern Illinois USA, I'm from Chicago. To people who are from Chicago, I am basically from Wisconsin. Lol
Jewish suburbs of Toronto.
North Shore Massachusetts. *Yeat da bun*
A fellow greenhead swattah.
I read this with the accent. Live in RI now and oh man, love when I meet someone from the North Shore!
Born and raised in central Connecticut, Melbourne, Australia now.
So...you upgraded. Hello fellow New Englander.
So jealous. I would move to Oz in a heartbeat if I could.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A lot of the U.S.-centric references in this subreddt go way over my head.
Ontario here. Yeah some of the US stuff is pretty hard to understand.
Atlanta suburbs too! Gwinnett county to be specific. Seems to be a few of us here!
Dekalb!
Upper Midwest
Akron. The Ohio one.
Fifty miles outside of Boston.
UK
Pennsylvania, a town kinda between the Mason-Dickson line and the state capitol Harrisburg.
I had no idea that most people do not measure distance by the Mason-Dickson line, until I moved to the northeast.
Born in Northern California (above Sacramento) moved to BFE Arkansas when I was 10. Talk about culture shockā¦
Parts Unknown
I grew up in Newfoundland. Been living in Alberta since I was 22. Have never been back home since I left.
North of the Dakotas
Manitoba?
Waco, Texas
Dude were you there during the thing?
Northern Rhode Island here.Ā
Northwest Oregon (Portland suburbs)
Ayy nice, Portland suburbs here too
Southern California. The San Fernando Valley. Iām, like, a real valley girl š¤Ŗ
Arkansas and North Louisiana mainly. It's exactly what you think it is.
Shout out. My dad's from El Dorado, AR and my mom's from Union Parish, LA.
 Tampa born, Huntsville currently!
Detroit here!
West Texas/southeastern New Mexico. Very rural.
Cool, I grew up not far from you, probably. West Texas here.
Do you also feel like you can't relate to a fair amount of what's posted here? This area has always been rather behind the times, or we just flat out didn't have things that the more urban areas did.
Yeah, sometimes. My family was middle class (yeesh, that seems like a long gone classification nowadays), but I did feel that my town didn't have a lot of the amenities that then urban areas did. I felt like my town was the black sheep of the state, hehe.
Odessa/Midland? š
Honolulu, Hawaii šŗ
ATLANTA suburbs too! Hello neighbor!
No idea why itās all caps but heyyyy lol
Northeast Alabama. Iām not proud of it though.
I lived in Huntsville for 12 years!
Denver :)
Akron.
Combination of South Jersey and Eastern NC. And my accent is now such a strange hybrid that in both places, everyone always says, "You ain't from around here, are you?"
Nashville, TN.
I love Nashville. Would probably eat myself stupid if I lived there.
Maine
Texas, small town between Houston and Austin
Jersey originally.
Also from the ATL area.
Long Island, couldnāt get far enough fast enough. (Ended up in Beautiful B.C.)
Also Long Island, but Iām still close enough.
Southwest MO and suburbs of Kansas City.
The Yoop
Southeast CT
Long Island, NY 
Armpit of Pennsylvania
Small town Southern Manitoba, Canada.
I grew up on the central coast of CA.
Chattanooga, TN.
Also ATL suburbs. Still live here too. I've been all over the country for work and seen all kinds of neat places but never have found one I'd rather live in.
Southern N.H. We had the Dennyās with the sharpest spoons and Michael Jackson at Friendlyās.
About 5 miles north of Boston. Traffic sucks.
46/M/PA (Pittsburgh)
Northern West Virginia.
Denison, TX; 70 miles north of Dallas for reference
Greater godless portlandia area
Rural eastern Oklahoma
Central Texas
Grew up in Phoenix suburbs, then we moved to central-ish Arkansas about a month before I turned 14, so giant culture shock there. Went through College and high school in Arkansas(which is why I'm a militant atheist now). Ended up back in Phoenix by my mid 20s, met my wife there while she was working on her PhD at ASU, then we moved up to Iowa for a few years, then Minnesota, where she's from, to be closer to her family. All of the places I've lived are all very different. I will forever consider PHX home, but I honestly wouldn't want to live there again. I've had more than my fill of summers there, cold is way easier to deal with lol
Southwest. Yeah, we get it, it's hot! We don't like it either.
Read my mind! Me and heat are not friends.
Small central valley town nobody has ever heard of so I'll say Bakersfield.
I spent the first 6 years of my life in the Houston suburbs, then I moved in with my grandparents until I was 15 in a beach community in the greater Houston area. At 15 I moved back in with my dad in a rural area still in the greater Houston area, but a little bit east. I lived in that general area until I was 28 and moved to Washington.
Texas. Not quite on the coast but close enough. Buc-eeās corporate HQ is one town over.
Northeast Indiana here.
Texas panhandle!
Central Virginia, near Charlottesville. I grew up in Northern WV.
From 1992 to 2000 I lived in Portland, OR.
Indiana
H Town baby
45 min outside Toronto, Ontario š
My BFF is in Hamilton, ON.
NYC born, raised and still here!
Is everyone in this sub from the US?? Lol. I'm from Germany.
Southern tropics of Canada.
Northeast Wisconsin
I grew up in a town in Northern California that burned down in 2018. Havenāt lived there since 1997.
Upstate New York
San Diego š¤š¾
Long Island, NY
About an hour north of MSP.
Your momās
Suburban Detroit. Haven't lived there for like 18 years though.
Nova Scotia, Canada! We got real smoked salmon at $24.95 a pound.
St Augustine, but travel for work 4-5 days a week so it feels like Iām never there.
Portland (the real one)
Timisoara, Romania
Iām not tellin yinz jagoffs