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Common in Cincinnati, St louis, might be big in Cleveland, Indy, Milwaukee, etc. Maybe it's only big in cities that do not have a lot of transplants and are not really that relevant anymore.
I'm in Indianapolis, and I've never been asked where I went to high school, at least not that I remember. It never comes up as a topic of conversation.
I used to live in Evansville, IN; the high school you went to was always one of the first things people asked.
At least in my circles living on the north side and working in downtown, I have never heard this question. Hardly anyone I know is even from Chicago or the same states anyway.
I hear "where did you grow up" or "where did you go to college", but really after you turn 20 or graduate from college then high school is pretty much forgotten.
In DC no one does because there's so many transplants. People always ask where you're from since most people I encounter aren't from the DC area
I wouldn't say no one. People in the DC area will occasionally ask each other where they went to high school if they're both natives. Doesn't happen often though. People usually ask where you grew up or what college you went to. On the very rare and I do mean rare occasion I've bumped into someone from my hometown I immediately ask what high school they went to.
As someone mentioned it says a lot about your background, upbringing and often race. Although I'm the last generation of busing so one can't get to carried away with assumptions.
So what does that make Kansas City, which is smaller than both St. Louis and Cincinnati? It's not like anyone hears much about KC. Sorry, but if St. Louis and Cincinnati are irrelevant, than Kansas City is even more irrelevant.
Our city has had a lot of momentum and change over the years, we have a new performing arts center, we were recently named by a bunch of travel magazines as one of the places to go and visit in 2012, frommers listed us as the only US city, we have a revitalized downtown, great and growing food scene. We are also hosting the all star game this year.
Our economy was recently ranked the 8th best in the US, we have a fairly robust and diverse economy and we were not really hit by the recession. METRO RANK
I think KC is unique because it is half sun belt and half rust belt.
Of course! Especially in the boroughs here, people are pretty much familiar with the high schools here, even if they don't know too much about it, they know the name because they know someone who went there. There are hundreds of high schools here and everyone is everywhere.
Laughing at that UGA comment, but they do that all the time here. The natives of Charleston are very insular. Your social status can depend on what school you go to if you're that age. For example, if you go to Bishop England (the private Catholic HS) you are more likely to be rich.
Here though, the question they ask more is what neighborhood you live in. That definitely can influence who you hang out with.
I think KC is unique because it is half sun belt and half rust belt.
I'll add that this is a very common question in Kansas City also. When I moved East for college, the question changed (people in the East ask where you went to school, meaning college; certain demographics might then ask where you "prepped.")
Every time I'm back in KC, I'm asked the high school question. It's a way of gauging background via the neighborhood where you grew up/ attended high school.
I'll add that I have friends from small towns in the Midwest. Towns that have only one high school or even where the region has only one high school. These people, when relocated to a city, are confounded by the high school question -- it doesn't have resonance or meaning because everybody in their youth went to the same high school.
Nope, everyone just wants to know if I go to a SUNY college.
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