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(22 March 2017, 11:19)Lightspeed Wrote: I've only just worked out your approx. location. I thought you were much further to the West. This is a pity as for several years I was on contract with an outfit based just West of the tri-state city and often had weekend free to wander as I pleased. Interesting folk in the countryside around there. My accent never failed to draw interest and I was always being asked where I was from.... and the response to my declaration of origin being UK was nearly always "University of Kentucky?"... bless them... not too many foreigners in some parts around you are there:-)

I live about 30 miles south of Cincinnati, OH, the left arm pit of the universe. Horrid place that holds itself in very high regard. It is consistently ranked in the worst 20 cities in a nation filled with cities.

I seldom go there unless there is a good sale on ammo at my surplus outlet. I will then risk a run through the city like a Arab on a fast camel.

One of the aspects of our nation being so big is that we seldom run into people from other nations and when we do they are often either illegals or terrorists and unless the speak with your British accent we tend to treat them as such.

Since GB is about the size of two of our average sized states where you would have a Spaniard, Frenchman or German in your midst after a 500 mile drive we have a person we refer to as being from "out of state".

We treat them with the same suspicion we reserve for the arabs, especially if they are from up north. Those folks are not quite right and the talk funny. Rumor is that some of them even voted for Hillary.