Misconceptions regarding where you live

[Carmita Bonita]

Misconceptions about Hawaii:
-- We live in grass shacks
--Someone once asked me if there was even a Walmart or McDonalds or if we had our own currency. That it's generally barren and uncivilized here.
--You're automatically Hawaiian for living there (This probably annoys me the most. It is rare to actually meet a full blooded Hawaiian. When people tell me I'm Hawaiian just for living here...um no I'm not. I.E : A white person living in Japan isn't japanese lol. You are not automatically Hawaiian for living here.
--Everyone surfs
--That Hawaiian language is the first language
--Everyone lives near the beach
I could think of a few other dumb stuff but it's 3 am now xD

 

[JustineSunday]

I live in a neighborhood of my city that was really well known as an extremely dangerous area about a decade ago, but has experienced rapid gentrification over the past decade and is now a really popular place to open a hip bar or restaurant.

When I tell people where I live, they assume I'm an artist/rich/live in a warehouse. None of which is remotely accurate.

 

[Kvothe]

You're automatically Hawaiian for living there (This probably annoys me the most. It is rare to actually meet a full blooded Hawaiian. When people tell me I'm Hawaiian just for living here...um no I'm not. I.E : A white person living in Japan isn't japanese lol. You are not automatically Hawaiian for living here.

I feel like there's a different culture around this in Australia (or at least in my social circle). If you move here permanently (i.e. with the intent to live here for the foreseeable future) then you're 'Australian'...if you're living here for a few years (expat, long-term traveller, etc.) then you're an/a 'nationality' living in Australia. It's like, if you become part of the community/culture, then you are one with that community.

It's funny though, I'm not sure whether that mentality would apply if I moved permanently to another country, like America, or Ireland. I wouldn't consider myself Irish just because I lived there, so it's kind of the community accepting you and saying you live here, you're one of us...even if we don't necessarily apply it to ourselves.

 

[EroticEevee]

I'm from South Los Angeles...think "Straight Outta Compton". Everyone thinks that since we live in the ghetto, everything is dangerous and most people should have the "gangster" mentality...and I guess it IS dangerous and we do have a lot of gang activity, but we also have rockers with super high mohawks, emo kids, anime obsessed nerds, incredibly smart people, vegan restaurants...like we're so diverse down here.

The gang life that people usually think when they hear my area died down lot in the last ten years and a lot of people here are actually friendly, talk to neighbors and look out for each other. I mean, if you come down here and you're not going around staring at people and being visibly distressed by the environment, you most likely won't "get jumped" or "get shot" or whatever. No one cares. (I was a little hesitant about posting this with the specific part of LA, but it's pretty important because this area has it's own stereotypes, also apparently all of S.L.A. is 50 miles long and there's so many people here...I'm not really worried.)

But also, the typical "California Girl" topic was brought up frequently in my room. It doesn't help that I apparently have a "valley girl accent" where we sound like we're asking questions while making a statement? I think people talk like that here more as a way to subtly say "do you get what I'm saying?" without actually adding it into the sentence. Also, yes, Californians as a whole smoke a lot of weed. There's literally 10 places where I can legally buy weed within a mile in any direction from my house. Most people have realized that it's super easy to get a medical marijuana card here so it's honestly impossible to spend a day driving around without smelling some weed in the air. A lot of people here just light up in public, we don't care anymore...

 

[Wade W Wilson]

I live in a neighborhood of my city that was really well known as an extremely dangerous area about a decade ago, but has experienced rapid gentrification over the past decade and is now a really popular place to open a hip bar or restaurant.

When I tell people where I live, they assume I'm an artist/rich/live in a warehouse. None of which is remotely accurate.

The only thing my little mind thinks of any time I hear/read gentrification.

 

[yummybrownfox]

We all have crabs (Maryland). Hehe.


Sorry, I had to...

 

[Sevrin]

We all have crabs (Maryland). Hehe.


Sorry, I had to...

Mmmm. Crabcakes.

 

[SpankyHam]

Well, here's all I know about Australia

 

[Diana Blake]

I live in New Mexico... and often get asked why I don't live in the United States

 

[Johndoe91]

I live in New Mexico... and often get asked why I don't live in the United States

 

[AutumnDayKink]

I live in DC. We are not a state and it is stupid. People assume that we're all super rich and into politics but hell no that's not true! It's a very blue collar city, too, in a lot of ways. Most of my friends vote regularly but aren't necessarily INTO politics. We are ALL sick of talking about Hillary and Trump. I promise.

 

[LunaLore]

Kentucky gal here. Lots of...

• "Aw, you must really love KFC!"
• "So you're a redneck."
• "lol do you even know what a city is."
• "Cousin fucker."
• "So, you must really like bourbon, right?" (I mean, I do but that's besides the point)
• "There's nothing to do in Kentucky!" (shut the fuck up, have you ever been here?)
• "Racist."
  
• "SWEET TEA AND BISCUITS" (biscuits yes, sweet tea no)
• "Lol if you're from Kentucky where is your accent?"
• "Ignorant."

Maaaaaaaaaaan it's irritating .-.

 

[Wren_Rogers]

I'm from Texas, but I haven't mentioned that on cam yet. I'm surprised no one as picked up on my accent yet, but once it gets out I think I'm going to have to put a quarter in a jar for everytime someone asks me to put on a cowgirl hat and boots. -.-
I already get too many people irl asking if I ride a horse to work, but I'm hoping to god those people are only joking.

 

[June_Deni]

I feel you..I started to lie about where I am from because of all the ,,Eastern Europe,, misconceptions..well, I don't wanna be put in the same box with scamming Romanians or Russians who would fist their ass all day long...

 

[EllieGeorge]

I live in Florida. We get shit from people constantly...Florida is full of rednecks; Florida people are so stupid they can't even vote right; everybody in Florida is like the "Florida Man" meme; all of Florida is like Disneyland.

Absolutely love John Oliver, but it seems like he has to take at least one shot at Florida on his show every week.

I mean, fuck, it's not like we're Alabama. Or Arizona. Or Mississippi. Or Georgia.

ETA: Alabama made sex toys illegal. That's not some obsolete old law left over from the 1920s. They passed it in 1998.

So yeah, I'm throwing Alabama under the bus.

Sex toys aren't illegal (at least not anymore) lol. I'm gonna be nice but I'd much rather live in Alabama than Florida.

 

[EllieGeorge]

I'm from Texas, but I haven't mentioned that on cam yet. I'm surprised no one as picked up on my accent yet, but once it gets out I think I'm going to have to put a quarter in a jar for everytime someone asks me to put on a cowgirl hat and boots. -.-
I already get too many people irl asking if I ride a horse to work, but I'm hoping to god those people are only joking.

My best friend is from Texas and I'm from Alabama so we jab at each other about which state is worse lol.

 

[Dani Picas]

I live in Colombia....

http://www.goingnomadic.com/11-misconceptions-about-colombia-people-really-need-to-get-over/

They forgot to add that narcos is not a good representation of Pablo Escobar

 

[Violet Heathers]

@Wren_Rogers I'm from Texas too but guys don't believe me when I mention it. I don't have that thick North Texas drawl, unkess I've been around a lot of family. People also think the entire state is close to Mexico. I used to live 7 miles from the border. If I drove North I would still be in the same damn state 10 hours later! I don't call that close. . They also think we all have cowboy hats and boots in our closets. I do have boots but that's because I rode horses, when I lived in Pennsylvania haha. Can't argue about the Mexican food though. When I'm out of town and get a craving I go straight for the illegal section of town, to the shacks where they only speak Spanish.

 

[yummybrownfox]

Kentucky gal here. Lots of...

"Aw, you must really love KFC!"​

 

[EllieGeorge]

When I was in the Army, one of my NCOs was from Kentucky and he used to say how he might have only seen 3 KFCs in Kentucky in his lifetime lol

 

[LunaLore]

When I was in the Army, one of my NCOs was from Kentucky and he used to say how he might have only seen 3 KFCs in Kentucky in his lifetime lol

There's actually a KFC museum here -.-" I have personally never liked it. Too greasy, too blah. Mammaw made chicken so much better~

(Plus the Colonel was always creepy and made me uncomfortable)

 

[yummybrownfox]

(Plus the Colonel was always creepy and made me uncomfortable)

How about that Burger King dude? Creepy as hell...

 

[KyraJune]

I feel you..I started to lie about where I am from because of all the ,,Eastern Europe,, misconceptions..well, I don't wanna be put in the same box with scamming Romanians or Russians who would fist their ass all day long...

I am Romanian , i promise you i did not scam anyone ! that is not nice to thing to say about all the romanian camgirls.
we are all diffrent even if we come from same place ... yes some romanian camgirls might scam because of studios and stuff but we are all diffrent people with our own personality , education and mentality !

 

[eyeteach]

There's actually a KFC museum here -.-" I have personally never liked it. Too greasy, too blah. Mammaw made chicken so much better~

(Plus the Colonel was always creepy and made me uncomfortable)

Mine did too, but she couldn't touch KFC's coleslaw. That is some side crack shit!

 

[BlissfulSins]

I live in California....people don't get that most of Cali is not beach...it is actually a valley with a desert in the middle....so here let me break down what I normally get from people...

• "Oh you must have beautiful beach weather all the time." No I don't. I live in a desert its hot here...probably hot here all year around according to where you live.
• "Its so green there isn't it?" No its brown....very brown and full of tumbleweeds
• "You are either a beach bunny or a country girl." I am neither...not everyone here loves the beach or raises cattle
• "How can you be from California and not sound like a valley girl?" Because I am not from the movie Clueless....

 

[June_Deni]

I am Romanian , i promise you i did not scam anyone ! that is not nice to thing to say about all the romanian camgirls.
we are all diffrent even if we come from same place ... yes some romanian camgirls might scam because of studios and stuff but we are all diffrent people with our own personality , education and mentality !

I am sorry, I didn´t really think about how I am expressing myself. I certainly didnt mean to say everyone is same based on their nationality, that would go against the whole idea of this thread. I just hear it from guys: that some girls from there(most likely studios) had ripped them off so they filter all Eastern Europe.

 

[KyraJune]

I am sorry, I didn´t really think about how I am expressing myself. I certainly didnt mean to say everyone is same based on their nationality, that would go against the whole idea of this thread. I just hear it from guys: that some girls from there(most likely studios) had ripped them off so they filter all Eastern Europe.

Might be true and yes alot of members avoid me because of this misconception and dont stay around enough to get to know me and see i am not like that . but i heard alot of members complain about being scammed by cammodels from diffrent countries not only from romania ... i work from my own account from home but i used to know girls from studios that scammed and i told them is not nice and they told me they dont care because they are at a studio. i guess is hard to work honest when u give 50% of ur earnings away ....for them is not worth it ... i dont know ...

 

[EmelieSky]

I live in Sweden. We are not all blonde, part of a "bikini team" (wtf is that?), I don't know anyone with the name Inga. Those are the things movies like to play on.

We don't have polar bears roaming around the streets. (Yeah, for real. Some people believe that. But ni, they don't live here, thank god.)
We don't have snow all year around. At least not everywhere. We have four seasons like "normal" countries, although we do have an arctic climate in the north.
ABBA rules, that's true.
Not everyone idolize Zlatan Ibrahimovich (for the socker people, but since most of you are americans- you play football wrong )
We DO love our winter sports, at least in my home. But where I live, we have proper winters with enough snow to love them, further south where they barely have snow? Probably not as much. When I went to school a couple of years ago we did actually take a break from class to watch the skiing races on television.

 

[Entertainer33]

I'm from Wisconsin. I'm not a farmer. I don't own a cow. But yes, cheese is awesome. The "don'cah know" accent only kicks in when you his middle age.

 

[HaleyBlake]

Oh God this whole thing was hilarious.

I'm from Detroit, and WOW IS THERE A LONG LIST OF MISCONCEPTIONS/COMMONLY ASKED FACE-PALMING-TYPE THINGS:
-Every time I cam there's always a good handful of guys that say "ur from detroit and you never fucked any black cock bb??" "ooo bb i bet youve had a lot of BBC" "how do u like all that detroit BBC bb??" SO MANY VARIATIONS OF THIS!!! I live in a very predominantly white area, metro-Detroit if you will. I've never been with a black guy ever. (would love to tho if opportunity arose [;)

-Everyone assumes I know where Eminem lives and that I see him out and about frequently.

-People can't fathom the idea of me going into the city with my girlfriends or even just a group of friends in general. Whether its for a concert, or the casinos, or just bar hopping. Constantly getting asked why I would go to such an "unsafe, abandoned, and dirty city". Lots of assumptions I'm guaranteed to get shot. Lots of "warnings" from people who have never been here.

-85% of the time I say that I live here, I get the response of "why don't you leave?! there's so many more better places to be!! when do you plan to move?" I don't want to leave, the city is beautiful and I love it here. The night life here is incredible. The brewerys are amazing. The FOOD....oh my god the food. The music scene, which I'm heavily involved in, is truly incomparable to that of Detroit. I love walking around and exploring all the beautiful artwork and graffiti. I love staring over the water at night, looking into Canada from Hart Plaza. I love the closeness and mutual connection everyone from the city shares with one another. Downtown is absolutely thriving more than ever right now. Of course, there are very unsafe areas. But for the people who live here it's common knowledge where to go and not go. And, generally, you won't have any problems.

-"Tell me your CRAZIEST Detroit story!!!" Umm...one time I got kicked out of a concert for having a bit too much to drink then my friends and I ate drunk coney island food down the street? About all I got for that one haha

-"You can buy a house for $300 there!!" Well...yeah...but no. Not exactly how that works at all.

-"What's it like on 8 mile?? Gotta be crazy!" No. Just another road people use to drive on.

-For some reason people really like to tell me about Tim Allen getting busted for selling coke in Kalamazoo lol I don't know why they like to tell me this so often. True though.

-Stuff about The Lions being the worst football team in history. Can't completely disagree with that haha. We love our teams though and are proud to support them just like any other city. People think we're like, disgustedly embarrassed to be associated with them.

-"You don't look like you're from Detroit" ***100 facepalms***

There's TONS more, but basically everything branches off of one of those points. I love Detroit!! I don't see myself ever leaving either. I wish I could just take everyone out for a night and blow their minds with the pure awesomeness of this city.