People Who LIED About Their Hometown?

[G✇JI☈A]

I’m originally from Stockport in England.. and depending on who asks “where in England do you come from” .. if it’s another British expat I will say Stockport, if it’s someone that will probably have no idea where in Britain Stockport (with that name it sounds somewhere coastal, when it really isn’t, funfact the Port in the name cames from the Saxon word for Wood) is located I will say the Greater Manchester area.

Theses days if I’m overseas and someone asks where I live in Australia currently and I will say Melbourne instead of the suburb about a 40 minute drive away from the main Melbourne city.

[An Dog On An Skateboard]

Nov 28, 2023 6:41:44 GMT -5 crashmatsbazz said:

Michelle Marsh did this.
Former page 3 model Michelle is from my home town of Oldham, she went on the TV and told the nation she was from North Manchester.....big mistake!, she pretty much got booo'ed out of the local pub next time she came in and the 13 year old lads weren't getting many selfies with her that night.

See, I think it's interesting that towns within Greater Manchester are considered very separate to Manchester proper, whereas in London towns that fall within the county of Greater London aren't, or at least not to anywhere near the same extent despite them being part of Middlesex/Essex/Kent/Surrey/Herts until the sixties. For example, if I was from Uxbridge or Twickenham or Romford or somewhere, I don't think anyone would take issue with me saying I was from London. It's weird.

[crashmatsbazz]

Nov 28, 2023 18:31:31 GMT -5 An Dog On An Skateboard said:

Nov 28, 2023 6:41:44 GMT -5 crashmatsbazz said:

Michelle Marsh did this.
Former page 3 model Michelle is from my home town of Oldham, she went on the TV and told the nation she was from North Manchester.....big mistake!, she pretty much got booo'ed out of the local pub next time she came in and the 13 year old lads weren't getting many selfies with her that night.

See, I think it's interesting that towns within Greater Manchester are considered very separate to Manchester proper, whereas in London towns that fall within the county of Greater London aren't, or at least not to anywhere near the same extent despite them being part of Middlesex/Essex/Kent/Surrey/Herts until the sixties. For example, if I was from Uxbridge or Twickenham or Romford or somewhere, I don't think anyone would take issue with me saying I was from London. It's weird.

its all about pride up here, haha. 
half the towns round manchester have a cake or a food item named after them, so they like to be independent. Oldham is just rough and at the top of a hill so i think Manchester likes to disown us anyway. 

[Allie Kitsune]

There are some things I wouldn't consider lies, eg : Where I grew up was definitely from outside the city, but the entire general area still had mailing addresses that used the city's name.

[Sephiroth]

Slightly debated note, but when a country song generated controversy over the summer, all I needed was the title to know what a phoney the guy is. Anyone who lives in a small town could tell you they crazy shit goes on all the time, and more often than not drugs are involved. My personal favorite was the guy who called 911 claiming he’d been stabbed by a hooker-but he’d actually been trying to bump uglies with a vacuum cleaner.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Nov 29, 2023 7:50:18 GMT -5 Allie Kitsune said:

There are some things I wouldn't consider lies, eg : Where I grew up was definitely from outside the city, but the entire general area still had mailing addresses that used the city's name.

It has changed now,think it happened 2 years after I moved,where I grew up was right outside Moss Point MS. But my mailling address listed the town west of Moss Point. My phone number was a Moss Point Number. I went to Moss Point schools.

Oddly cause the area had Pascagoula address that meant it was patrolled by Pascagoula cops. Who didn't know the area. Which had them normally just parking in the lot of the one store out that way and stopping anyone speeding down the one main road.

[darbus alan]

I just say I'm from Central New Jersey since my town is pretty small. Granted, I can say I'm from NYC because I was born and lived there as an infant. So I'd be technically correct.

[MolotovMocktail]

Weird Al Yankovic once played the local fair, and after his first few songs, takes the mic and says, “It’s great to be back in my hometown of Petaluma!” I immediately think, holy shit, we can claim Weird Al! Then I google him, find out he’s actually from LA, and was trolling us.

[UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm]

mankind said he was from the boiler room, i highly doubt that

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

Nov 29, 2023 19:55:55 GMT -5 UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm said:

mankind said he was from the boiler room, i highly doubt that

Every Boiler Room in the entire world does seem suspect.