Well, where I come from...

[BobUK 4,654]

Where I come from the, once friendly, local shops all now have metal roller shutters on their frontages...

[Hazza 5,458]

Where I come from, you can buy groceries, wash your car or mow your lawn on Sundays

 

Where I come from, washing machines don't take 16 hours to wash your clothes on a normal cycle

 

Where I come from, you don't get calcium deposits on absolutely everything that comes into contact with water

 

Where I come from, they don't think that David Hasselhof can sing

 

Where I come from, sport doesn't just mean soccer

 

Where I come from, food that's labelled as spicy actually is

 

Where I come from, nobody gives a shit about asparagus

[masaka 119]

Where I come from,

 

- we get at least 3 marriage invitations per month.

- great food and awful beer

[sipapito 858]

Where I come from people will hit you with their grocery cart and say "I'm so sorry" not push the car again up your ass and look like nothing happened.

[saturdayedition 63]

Where I come from, people don't sneer at you when they hear you speaking another language on public transport!

[RickMunich 3,901]

Probably because nobody can speak another language. ;)

[john g. 37,776]

After reading so many of your horror stories on where many of you come from, I´m relieved I don´t come from anywhere anymore. So many rough places not to come from...Jeez.

[bobbylines 1,729]

A very interesting thread!Where i come from you have to pay for your own beer at weddings!Now john that is a real horror story :D

[apandey 0]

Where I come from , friendship means life long not one day relationship

Where I come from , people are straight but not arrogant

Where I come from , religion is only Humanity

Where I come from , being social is considered positive

Where I come from , people are competitive but in positive sense

Where I come from , Family is most important aspect of our lives

[Tuariangamunotjiri 7]

Where I come from you don't have to live in innerstadt to buy bread and milk when you have run out (or even a petrol station),

Where I come from meat is really meat,

Where I come from people don't assume you speak their mother tongue because of cultural diversity,

Where I come from beer is cheaper than tap water,

But then again where I come from does not really have public transport, if you don't have a car you are screwed...

[margot 123]

Where I come from:

* shops in tourist cities and towns stay open on Sundays

* cashier attendants don't need to wear a "ich bin freundlich" pin, they're pretty happy to have a job these days so they smile and are helpful spontaneously

* shopping assistants do risk getting fired if they are rude and/or ignore customers and in tourist cities and towns speak at least 2 foreign languages (in Rome, Milan, Florence and Venice forget getting a job in an medium/upscale store if you can't speak at least 3, sometimes Japanese being included)

* people are helpful with tourists

* acquantainces/neighbours/colleagues won't dare asking you how much you pay for rent, how much any item you're wearing is and most importantly how much your salary is

* acquantainces/neighbours/colleagues won't openly criticise you for spending too much money on something they don't spend money on

* people have more than wurst and beer in their shopping carts

* people (except your mother in law) won't stop you on the street to preach you on how you should raise/dress/feed your children

* hairstylists don't come out of an '80s Inspektor Derrik's episode

* freshly baked good at bakeries do not contain hydrogenated fats

 

BUT

* those who want a high quality medical assistance need to see specialists on their own costs

* children playgrounds are rarely well kept

* baby care products are extremely expensive

* politics are a joke

AND last but not least we have a prime minister who, despite facing extremely serious charges, has absolutely no intention to resign.

[tokeshu 779]

Where I come from..

 

... you can watch a foreign language film in it's original language

... you can do things at lunchtime without fear of everything being closed...because it's lunchtime

... people stand up and give their train seats to the elderly, infirm or pregnant

... people don't smoke anymore

... spontaneous catch ups with friends are possible and don't require half a year's pre-planning

 

but

 

...you're not allowed to bring your best furry friend into a restaurant or cafe with you

.. girls don't sunbathe topless at the local swimming pool

[robinson100 12,854]

Where I come from people say "please" and "thankyou" automatically!

[Timmeh 828]

Where I come from they know how to make a sandwich with something other than ham/salami & cheese

 

Where I come from people pack my bags at the supermarket

 

Where I come from I can tell the gas pump to put in a dollar value amount of petrol and it will do so automagically.

 

Where I come from I can get an awesome meat pie any time of the day or night...scratch that, I can actually GET a meat pie

 

Where I come from if I so wish to I can go to the supermarket at 4am

 

Where I come from I can get away from people if I want to

[nina_glyndwr 4,748]

Where I come from

 

- there is apparently no decent food in any restaurant in the vicinity

- no person over 30 goes out in the evenings because they're scared (and anyway there's nowhere decent to go for a meal)

- a simple cotton shirt is regarded as 'very posh'

- you can't dress the way you would like to for fear of being harassed

 

Very sad... but this is what I hear from the locals back home.

[Guest]

Where I come from

 

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2011/04/11/north-west-wales-crime-hotspots-revealed-55578-28495824/

 

I am sad that has changed there so much since I was a child- in a very negative way.

[MiNi79 32]

nina's post about no one going out over thirty made me think. Where I come from, no one goes to a bar or a club or a concert if they are three years out of college. It just ends at 24 or 26--However long you can still feel okay around really young people. You can go to oldie concerts--concerts from someone who played when you were 20ish, but no new bands. You go to restaurants and you go to art openings where there is a band, and that is it.

[nina_glyndwr 4,748]

Art openings? In North Wales?

 

Lakey's article is interesting. It mentions Llandudno - which is the town that I had in mind when writing my post. I've been told these things by guys - one of whom was a tall, hefty bloke over 35 who was too scared to go out in Llandudno for fear of being involved in violence.

 

What I like here is that when you go out - say to a pub or restaurant - there's a mix of age groups.

[AlexTr 19,754]

Where I come from men have 48 cm necks and we don't measure them in centimeters, we measure them in inches and if you're smaller than that you're called "the little guy". Oh, yeah, and where I come from kids are raised waking at 5:00 am feeding the animals and cleaning the barn in tons of snow...and I mean tons. After that, they can stand at the bottom of the driveway and wait for the bus in -20 weather. Then, they go to school and stay all day and have to stay awake and alert, otherwise they'll get hit on the playground with that ice ball. All of this is considered normal and anyone who whines about it is a hothouse flower. Lastly, where I come from your neighbors don't try to tell you what to do, but they do tell you when your kid's been bad...and you do something about it.

[Timmeh 828]

Inches? Do you come from the fifties?