What about living in your city is nothing like the TV/movies?

[Valiss]

What about living in your city is nothing like what the TV or movies would have us believe?

I used to live in Los Angeles many years ago.  It's not all galmorous. There are a lot of homeless and crappy neighborhoods to be had.  And you don't run into celebs unless you happen to live near one lives, but odds are, you can't afford it anyway.

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

We live in Iowa and we do not have corn or pigs in our front yard 

[Meagan]

Rednecktopia, TX. Our football team sucks. Always have, always will. But we got a new stadium anyway.

[Morgan Dreadlocke]

ROFLMAO! Live a few miles north of Old Tucson Studios. Looks the same now as when John Wayne rode through.

[LadyFae]

Well first off, Fargo is in North Dakota- not Minnesota- and we don't all speak "like that" (though to be fair, many of my relatives DO) and we don't really have that many murderers using wood chippers to get rid of the bodies...

[DonaCatalina]

Neither we nor my neighbors have oilwells or cattle. The last family ranch was sold off about 5 years ago for a developer to build ranchettes for Yankees.

[Merlin the Elder]

We do wear shoes in Arkansas, and I took down the still 3 years ago.

[Valiss]

Neither we nor my neighbors have oilwells or cattle. The last family ranch was sold off about 5 years ago for a developer to build ranchettes for Yankees.

Do you guys really say "y'all" all the time though?

[Jade]

 Flint  really isn't as bad as it's portrayed.

[Merlin the Elder]

Neither we nor my neighbors have oilwells or cattle. The last family ranch was sold off about 5 years ago for a developer to build ranchettes for Yankees.

Do you guys really say "y'all" all the time though?

Valiss, I'm noticing that "Y'all" is becoming more common all around the country. I heard a national newscaster use it just yesterday.  Having lived in the South for most of my life, I really struggle not to use the colloquialisms of the area, but y'all, et's harder that ketchin' a greased pig!

[Valiss]

Neither we nor my neighbors have oilwells or cattle. The last family ranch was sold off about 5 years ago for a developer to build ranchettes for Yankees.

Do you guys really say "y'all" all the time though?

Valiss, I'm noticing that "Y'all" is becoming more common all around the country. I heard a national newscaster use it just yesterday.  Having lived in the South for most of my life, I really struggle not to use the colloquialisms of the area, but y'all, et's harder that ketchin' a greased pig!

Well I can tell you it isn't used in California that I've ever heard.  I assume it is a Texas / southern accent thing. But that's jsut what the movies would have me belive. So you guys DO say it! Hahaha. While I do say 'dude' a lot, I dont know anyone who has a valley girl accent.

[BLAKDUKE]

If I had seen deliverance first I would never have moved to Ga/Al.   I refuse to mash buttons, I mash potatoes.  I am never fixin to do anything, there are many things I am thinking/preparing to do.   I shudder at y'all  and y'alls is even worse.  Here everything in the bible is to be taken literally no matter how stupid, nonsensical, or rediculous it may be , yet no one has been able to tell me where Cains wife came from.  Nothing is to be eaten without grits, yet they frown on cream of wheat, the only difference is the source material, the consistency of each is identical.  The sheep, goats, and other cattle are kept locked up lest they be violated by the neighbors.  They all complain about the Yankees, but if it were not for Yankees they would not know what shoes were.  Not one of them knows that the civil war(not the war of northern aggression) is over and THEY surrendered.  It has been 158 years since the event and they still won't get over it.  There was a bypass route built over 18 years ago with a frontage road and in all that time they still don't know that people coming off of the highway onto the frontage road have the right of way, even though it is clearly marked.  Reading here is not a required subject.  When the old high school was abandoned and a new one was built, the first spade of dirt lifted out of the ground was for the football stadium not the school..   Why do I stay.  I hate snow and high taxes.

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

We live in Iowa and we do not have corn or pigs in our front yard 

I live in NW Illinois but work across the Mississippi River in Iowa in a customer service call center.   So many times people ask where I am located, and I'll tell them Iowa, and they reply, "Oh, the place with the potatoes."

Sorry, that's Idaho.

So many people think the only place in Illinois is Chicago, but here in rural NW Illinois, we have more cows than people.  Almost no pollution, and at night, you can look out and see the stars.

[Merlin the Elder]

Misconceptions can be interesting. Went I went to college, in the Arkansas border town of Memphis, TN, I had someone make a crack about not knowing we wore shoes. This particular person was from the thriving metropolis of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, and spoke with an British accent.  What a dork.

I HAVE run into girls with the "Valley Girl" affectation. I'm sure it was as put on as the British accent from Oklahoma.  In all fairness, almost every area of the country has their own idiosyncrasies. Youse guys shouldn't make fun of y'all. 

[BLAKDUKE]

In New York City most residents think anywhere above White Plains is Indian country.  I was asked once, after the person heard I was from NY,  Oh do you know so and so.  Like there are only 25 million residents in the state I should know this one person.  JEEEEEZZ............