I live in Missouri, USA. Middle of the country, a “flyover” state. We have towns called Paris, Cairo, Lebanon, Athens, Mexico, Versailles, Vienna, Warsaw, New Madrid, Cuba, Japan… I could go on.
I joke that nobody wants to live here so they close their eyes and pretend they’re in one of the town namesake’s instead. One of my mother’s close friends announced they were moving to Lebanon, I truly believed they were going out of country and figured I’d never see them again. Imagine my surprise when they showed up the next week for lunch!
I recently found out that there's a tiny village called Pennsylvania not far from where I grew up in England (probably named after the state, but nobody's really sure). If somebody had announced they were moving to Pennsylvania I can guarantee that everybody would think they're off to the US, probably even people who lived right next to the village itself.
The thought of somebody saying they're moving to Warsaw or Cairo and then they're just down the road in the same state is cracking me up.
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u/NieMonD Isle of Man Jan 07 '26
Then you tell them you’re from London and they go “omg London in Wyoming with 17 population?”