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@Mrs. Jacks: yes, she's great!
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@DigAPony: I saw her speak at the HRC gala last weekend. She rocked it!
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that if you don't live in the big cities (philly, Pittsburgh, etc) that you are Amish.
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Everyone from Massachusetts are rude a-hole liberals who are obsessed with their sports teams.
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I honestly don't know about the state as a whole, but the area that I live in it is assumed that you are rich. I had a friend from IL in college who would call her parents and friends from home and tell them about her friend from Cape Cod and they would all say "Ooooh, does she live in a mansion on the beach?".
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@Shutterbug: Haha, I guess you got the whole state thing figured out...and I would said you hit the nail on the head with that one.
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@tlcbaby: I always wondered if you lived in that area!
Most people assume that Kentuckians are backwoods hillbillies who marry their cousins, never wear shoes, and farm/mine coal. I had a friend tell me not to marry my cousin when I moved here (originally from VA).
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We live in grass shacks, everyone surfs, if it is weird living in a different country, every brown skinned person is Hawaiian. I actually tricked my best friend into believing that I kayaked to work. Not everyone lives down the street from the beach. It's funny sometimes...I even had to tell a tourist that was staring at me saying she had never seen a real Hawaiian before that I was full Mexican ....I feel like I should have let her just believe and continue working, but I couldn't help it.
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@anbanan15: I didn't know you we're from Lancaster. I'm in central pa.
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@evansjamie: Yep! Since I was 10. I forgot that we married our cousins
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@.twist.: I grew up in Alberta, but my extended family was in ontario. Everyone always commented that it must be really cold there. And the redneck thing.
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: about your state: that it rains pretty much every day. Here in mn people keep saying the weather is like Seattle because its been raining non stop the last two months.
Umm... Hmm.. I really cannot think of anything.
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@tlcbaby: Ironically, my husband is from Eastern KY and did go on a date with his second cousin (unintentionally).
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@coacheswife123: Represent!
I think a preconception I have about my own state (MS) is that everyone is a conservative Christian. But, I mean, I'm not. So that's not really fair of me.
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@evansjamie: That mad me laugh. I heard in Iceland (I think) there is an app you can use to make sure you aren't related to someone before going out w them-maybe we need that, too!
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@dagret: I didn't know you were from Central PA either! Small world!
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That in kansas we are all super conservative, live in trailer parks and have missing teeth. Oh and say things like 'i done did that' Turns out we are pretty normal...not to say those folks don't exist
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@rahlyrah: Yay, another Baltimore bee! I've been lurking for awhile and just started posting recently.
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: Seattle specifically? Washington in general?
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In Iowa everyone knows how to ride a tractor, plant corn, and raise farm animals. Forget about people like me who has never set foot in a corn field, on a tractor, and has never touched a cow or pig or goat outside of a petting zoo.
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@anbanan15: We're in Elizabethtown right now and hoping to move to Lancaster soon!
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That all NYer's are rude and talk too fast.
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Hmm....Iowa. We only care about corn and pork?
@Mrs. Pen: DH is from MN and thinks the most common misconception would be about the accents. I'd have to say they are true though... Ha! The vowels are all wrong!
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@mrsdoily: Oh hello fellow Iowa bee
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That NY is a dangerous 'fear for your life' urban jungle with all skyscrapers and no greenery. That NYers are all rude and mean. So far from the truth.
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We are all cowboys, or retired, or illegal (as mentioned above), or conservative, or all live in the desert...Arizona.
@Mrs. Jacks: @DigAPony: Love her too, that was a heck of an election! She definitely gives me some hope that we are moving forward as a state
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@MrsScallop: yeah I was thinking that. Most people think we talk like the movie Fargo, or more like Canadians which is definitely stronger than what we say. I do know that we say our o's and a's differently.
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I'm from Chicago and everyone assumes we're terrible drivers (we ARE - stay off the roads out of staters for your own safety!), have connections to the mob (not so much), and speak with a godawful accent (only those who try too hard, the rest of us sound normal).
Being an expat in Australia now, everyone assumes we have kangaroos and koalas everywhere (umm, no. They're wild animals, they tend to avoid urban areas and people so you hardly see them unless you get out into the bush), we all can surf (nope, most Aussies I know don't surf as it's bloody freakin' difficult and scary!), and that everyone is tanned, beautiful, and super fit (nope, Australia's obesity rate is second or third in the world, behind the USA).
Ahh, stereotypes, gotta love them!
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That we must eat potatos with every meal.....idaho of course.
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I don't know if there are any preconceptions about my state, it's one of those states no one ever thinks about. So I'll say...
North Dakota - it exists!
Now that i think about it... that we all talk like in the movie Fargo. Except that's kind of true - a lot of people do.
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: ha! But you are!
Everyone thinks people from NYC are mean and rude.
And in my current city that we are freezing and have snow ALL the time. There are plenty of other cities that gets snow later than we do. And our summer is the most beautiful. A perfect, breezy temperate 80, TYVM! -
@MrsScallop: Iowa here too!
@mrsdoily: I must admit, before I moved to Iowa I'd never done any of that... now I'm married to a farmer! So I've done it all!
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I'm from the UK and I honestly don't know what pre-conceptions people have about us! If you want to go ahead and share- I can dispell any myths about life over here, haha!
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@illumina: the MIS conception is that Brits are rude! But having been over there now I know that is so far from the truth!
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Everybody from California eats avocados and sushi.
Everybody from Sweden is blonde and blue-eyed. That there's polar bears wandering around and we're known for chocolate and watches. That's Switzerland! A friend of mine once asked to send him chocolate, I told him we have meatballs, I can send him that! Haha
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@regberadaisy: :o ! I see what you mean, though compared to a lot of other countries we're very reserved and that can seem quite standoff-ish.
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@Mrs. Pen: I think the Canadian accent is a misconception. There are some vernacular differences but I've found accents here to be remarkable neutral.
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@illumina: I 've heard various ones. Mainly hat you all have bad teeth, are not very good-looking (I disagree as there are too many hot Brit actors), like to drink a lot and are rabid, maybe even crazy football/soccer fans. I've been to England to visit family a few times and the soccer one seems to be true.
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OMG I'm from NJ so there is ALOT...
I would say all the jersey shore stereotypes of going to the gym, tanning, talking like we are from NYC, fist pumping, big hair and shoes, loud etc. I'm none of the above lol Although I do like going to the shore -
@autumn865: bahaha jersey shore!
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