So True!

[zenbabe]

If your's isn't listed, make one up!!

You live in California when ...

1. You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.
2. The high school quarterback calls a time-out to answer his cell phone.
3. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.
4. You know how to eat an artichoke.
5. You drive to your neighborhood block party.
6. Someone asks you how far away something is, you tell them how long it
will take
to get there rather than how many miles away it is.


You live in New York when...

1. You say "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan.
2. You have never been to the Statue of Liberty.
3. You can get into a 4-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle
to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
4. You think Central Park is "nature."
5. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language
makes
you multilingual.
6. You've worn out a car horn.
7. You think eye contact is an act of aggression.


You live in Alaska when . . .

1. You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup and Tabasco.
2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas.
3. You have more than one recipe for moose.
4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5. The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and
construction.


You live in the Deep South when ...

1. You get a movie and bait in the same store.
2. "Ya'll" is singular and "all ya'll" is plural.
3. After fifteen years you still hear, "You ain't from 'round here, are ya?"
4. "He needed killin'" is a valid defense.
5. Everyone has 2 first names.


You live in Colorado when ...

1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home, and he stops at
the Day Care Center.
3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a ponytail.


You live in the Midwest when . . .

1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day.
4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?"
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say,
"It was different! "


You live in Florida when...

1. You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.
2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind -- even houses and cars.
3. Everyone can recommend an excellent dermatologist.
4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.
5. Cars in front of you are often driven by headless people
6. You don't know how to vote

[Red Princess]

you are from the Mid west
If you think Mayonnaise is a food group
If you give directions according to where the pot holes are
If you get your neighbor's mail by mistake,you not only know them, you drop it by their house and out it on the kitchen table whether they are home or not

[masterofNone]

You might live in DC if...
1. You think if things really get tough you can fillibuster.
2. You think of tax dollars as the governments money.
3. Everyone you know is from somewhere else.
4. You think of lobbyists and lawers with the same level of contempt.
5. You're used to the fact that there are at least four police departments in one city.
6. You think that outside the beltway is BFE
7. You understand what it means when the COTR at USDR&E is sending an RFP from OMB because the old one is OBE.

[zenbabe]

You know your from San Diego if:

1. You don't know anyone that is origionally from here (except me)
2. None of your friends have jobs, but still have money
3. You bitch when the weather drops below 70 degrees
4. You call in sick to go to a Charger game in the middle of the week at noon, and so do 50 thousand other people
5. A four year marraige is considered long term
6. Your blond
7. You gather regularly, drink beer, and cheer when the sun sets
8. You hate the Raiders, and fear them at the same time.
9. The main pair of shoes that you wear is a pair of flip flops
10. There is always a bottle of sun block aloe vera handy
11. You refer to everyone, even your dad, as "dude"
12. Fireworks bore you
13. You have annual memberships to the zoo and sea world
14. You insist on going to an outside bar in the middle of winter
15. You don't think twice about going to Tijuana to fill a prescription
16. You blame everything on being a product of your environment
17. Shorts don't go on sale in January
18. You try to quit drinking, then realize that every event or night out involves alcohol and beads
19. Even the cops are on rollerblades
20. Two words; VW vans
21. Cheap mexican food is a major food group in your diet

[amanda]

you might be in Tokyo if...

1. people subconciously queue up for the train, but push and shove to get on and off.
2. more than half of people in a crowd, any crowd, is currently text messaging the other half.
3. you accidently leave change in a vending machine, and the person after you spends 15 minutes looking for you to give it back.
4. people think the most appropriate way to wrap up a night of dancing and drinking is to go to a fish market for breakfast.
5. most people are quiet on the train, except that old man, three cars down, acceptably drunk.
6. you can get MORE lost by looking at the subway transit map.

you might be in Japan if...
1. you think twice about jaywalking a quiet residental street.
2. you can recognize your dinner's parents on sight.
3. saying "thank you" less than four times per interaction is considered impolite.
4. you can smell the disinfectant used on the streets.
5. life feels like a video game- purely for the sake of the inane music, bells and whistles everywhere.
6. working, happy vending machines are on every corner, selling hot coffee in cans that is slighty under the temperature of burning your hands or lips.
7. beautiful art can be found everywhere around you, regardless of where you are.
8. eating your dinner would be considered a risk sport or a circus sideshow act in other cultures.
9. the odds of serendipty MUST be factored in when looking for anything- clothing that fits, the nightclub where all your friends are, finding your way home again, etc.

[dickieC]

You know you're in Oxford when you pass two chatting undergraduates in the street, and overhear one say to the other "so, where are you from?" and the second replies "in Oxford, or in the real world?"