What do you usually say when people ask where you live or where you’re from?

[75A]

(My bolding) -- unless they are, strictly at second-hand, big Robin Hood fans; so, think that Sherwood Forest is still huge ...

I'm much the same, I say Leicestershire and if they say Leicester I say NO, we live nearer Coventry than Leicester and our nearest station is Nuneaton. Claim to fame is Bosworth battlefield.

 

[Calthrop]

I'm much the same, I say Leicestershire and if they say Leicester I say NO, we live nearer Coventry than Leicester and our nearest station is Nuneaton. Claim to fame is Bosworth battlefield.

Good conversation-fodder, maybe -- Richard-ites versus Henry-ites? (My feelings nowadays, tend toward "a plague on both their houses".)

 

[75A]

Good conversation-fodder, maybe -- Richard-ites versus Henry-ites? (My feelings nowadays, tend toward "a plague on both their houses".)

You and me both,

 

[LowLevel]

It’s a bit like living in Wolverhampton or Dudley and saying you’re from Birmingham because the latter is a more widely recognised city.

It's amusing you chose that as an example because I can guarantee you that no self respecting person from Wolverhampton and indeed probably Dudley would *ever* say they were from Birmingham

 

[75A]

It's amusing you chose that as an example because I can guarantee you that no self respecting person from Wolverhampton and indeed probably Dudley would *ever* say they were from Birmingham

Deffo, when I lived in Wednesbury I'd always say 'The Black Country'

 

[al78]

It is going to depend on the likely local knowledge of the person asking. If someone asks and we are in my county or a neighbouring county, I'll given my village, but if I was hundreds of miles from home, I would say the nearest town, which isn't far out as I only live a mile from the edge.

If someone where I live now asks where I am from, I say Salford, which has, once or twice, got the reply "oh, Manchester", to which I say "No, Salford". Salford is not part of the city of Manchester. Some might accuse me of pedantry but I don't care. You wouldn't say a person living in Scotland lives in England just because Scotland and England are next to each other and part of the UK.