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I dunno.
It nailed me Ok with Springfield ,Ma., But Stockton and Buffalo?

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Shreveport
Baton Rouge
New Orleans

Y'all and poboy got me.


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Baton Rouge Y'all
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Always wondered why people here in Montana could guess that I was from down south.

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Originally Posted by navlav8r
Of the three cities, one was my hometown!


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Nailed my Azz!

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Originally Posted by pira114
I tried to answer as honestly as possible and it dang near nailed my current location. Which is far from where I grew up. It's also weird because many people question where I'm from and say I don't use words common to where I live. Mostly, I think, because my parents never lost their dialects and accents.

So I took it again and tried to deceive it. And it put me in the same location.

I'm not sure what to think about this. I'd call BS on the test and say it's using the location of the nearest internet server, but some of you seem to indicate otherwise.

Weird.


My family moved from where I grew over 40 years ago but it still nailed me. I live over 1000 miles from there now.

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It kind of ticks me off how they put y'all at the bottom of the list. It was even under "other". It is evidently an important factor in the test. I took the test several times, changing various answers except the "y'all", and it always landed me in the South. The test hasn't put me close to my house yet though. They are still a couple of hundred miles off.


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The three cities that it pulled up were Stockton, Santa Rosa, and Salt Lake city. If you draw a line between Stockton and Santa Rosa smack dab in the middle is Concord, Ca. I grew up in Oakland which is only about 20 miles away.

If that isn't weird enough I now live in Colorado and Salt Lake City is just about halfway between Fort Collins and Oakland.

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I was raised in northwestern rural ohio but I have lived my adult life in the deep south and south florida. Im told I speak a curious blend of the two dialects and phrases. I guess im a real mutt. Funny this test put me dead center between where I have lived north and south in Lexington Kentucky.


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Interesting. Perhaps dialect is one if the most accurate profiling tools!? smile

I'm 1700 miles away from where I grew up and have been for over 15 years, but the quiz gave me Madison, WI; Grand Rapids, MI; and....Milwaukee, WI.

I was born in Milwaukee and grew up north of Green Bay. crazy


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Originally Posted by fish head
The three cities that it pulled up were Stockton, Santa Rosa, and Salt Lake city. If you draw a line between Stockton and Santa Rosa smack dab in the middle is Concord, Ca. I grew up in Oakland which is only about 20 miles away.

If that isn't weird enough I now live in Colorado and Salt Lake City is just about halfway between Fort Collins and Oakland.

It's an NSA website. eek


Martinez, Port Chicago, Clyde.
Oakland? Was rough in the day.


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It said I was in Richmond.

I'm near Ft. Lee.


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Originally Posted by wageslave
Originally Posted by fish head
The three cities that it pulled up were Stockton, Santa Rosa, and Salt Lake city. If you draw a line between Stockton and Santa Rosa smack dab in the middle is Concord, Ca. I grew up in Oakland which is only about 20 miles away.

If that isn't weird enough I now live in Colorado and Salt Lake City is just about halfway between Fort Collins and Oakland.

It's an NSA website. eek


Martinez, Port Chicago, Clyde.
Oakland? Was rough in the day.


Rough? Just a little. grin

One of my fondest memories of living in Oakland was riding in the car with my mom past the Alameda County Courthouse and seeing a Black Panther standing on the steps holding a shotgun.

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It wasn't all bad. Less than a 1/2 mile away from the courthouse was the inlet to Lake Merrit where we caught stripers on an incoming tide.

But ... I did have a bunch of black kids strong arm rob my Rapalas one day. laugh

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got me down as SEattle Tacoma which is close to Victoria B.C.



there has also been a study done off hair samples to locate where you have been living in the last few years , I believe it's based on chemicals and vitimins

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Wow, it was so far off on me it, wasn't even close.
For most of the test, it showed I was not even from this country. It finally settled in Alabama and South Carolina, two places I have never even been close to.
No wonder people think I talk funny.


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Very Accurate!


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norm;
Merry Christmas to you and yours sir!

I took the test twice and one time got Spokane, someplace in Nebraska and another city in the mid west and then the second time landed squarely in the mid west.

As I was born and raised in the "mid west" of Saskatchewan, perhaps that follows? laugh

I do know from our travels in the US I can get by speaking Texan, am fluent in Arizonan and almost need an interpreter to speak Bostonian. blush

Merry Christmas again to you all Norm.

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Originally Posted by pira114
I tried to answer as honestly as possible and it dang near nailed my current location. Which is far from where I grew up. It's also weird because many people question where I'm from and say I don't use words common to where I live. Mostly, I think, because my parents never lost their dialects and accents.

So I took it again and tried to deceive it. And it put me in the same location.

I'm not sure what to think about this. I'd call BS on the test and say it's using the location of the nearest internet server, but some of you seem to indicate otherwise.

Weird.


can't be I am in north Alberta and it put me in Seattle key word was kitty corner

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Originally Posted by 12344mag
Wow! surprisingly accurate.


You reckon...It seems to think I reside in Los Angeles, Minneapolis/Saint Paul, New York.

And I know I don't sound like a Yank.









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Originally Posted by BC30cal
norm;
Merry Christmas to you and yours sir!

I took the test twice and one time got Spokane, someplace in Nebraska and another city in the mid west and then the second time landed squarely in the mid west.

As I was born and raised in the "mid west" of Saskatchewan, perhaps that follows? laugh

I do know from our travels in the US I can get by speaking Texan, am fluent in Arizonan and almost need an interpreter to speak Bostonian. blush

Merry Christmas again to you all Norm.

Dwayne



and to you as well Dwayne and the family. we are hanging around o right now hows your weather?

norm


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