In your major metro, is it common for people to ask where you went to high school? (neighborhood, high schools)
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E/NE Pittsburgh suburbs it is more common to ask where someone grew up. The school attended is then obvious. We have about 500 school districts in the state.
I grew up in Rochester NY and EVERYBODY asked this question. It is how people form cliques up there and it was very annoying
Down here in Texas, nobody asks this question..... it might have to do with the fact that there are people from all over the country and world here in Houston (unlike Rochester)
I did live in Rochester past high school..... next
They do ask this question alot
no they don't. They ask what you do for a living... where you went to college... you interests... etc. Nobody past the age of 21 asks where you went to high school as a conversation starter.
This is fairly common at UGA. It's basically become a University subsidized by poor lottery ticket purchasers for middle to upper class kids from metro Atlanta. So here, it's fairly common as most kids are from Metro Atlanta and it's a subtle way of gauging someone lifestyle.
If you say you're from Riverdale HS, Morrow HS or South Dekalb for instance, it means you're black. You grew up in a black area and god love you for getting the hell out of those ghetto hellholes. Not saying I agree with this, but it's the perception.
If you say you're from Chattahoochee HS, North Springs HS, Northview HS or Walton HS, it means you grew up in the Northern suburbs. So you probably aren't paying for college yourself, drive an exorbitantly expensive car and have pledged a sorority or a fraternity
If you say you went to Lovett, Marist or Westminster, it means you probably grew up in Buckhead or Sandy Springs in a mansion and have no concept of reality. You'll probably major in communications or history and then fall back on your parents' money.
If you say you went to Norcross HS, Parkview HS or Duluth HS, it means you grew up in a basic middle class suburb that rapidly diversified and interacted with people who spoke about 100 different languages. So therefore you're multicultural and will probably join an Asian fraternity even though you're not Asian.
If you say you went to Druid Hills HS, Chamblee HS or Lakeside HS, it means you're probably a hippie raised by parents who work for NPR, the ACLU or maybe teach at Emory. And your parents might be a same sex couple.
If you say you went to East Paulding HS, North Forsyth HS, Newnan HS or Grayson HS, it means you're a redneck who grew up on the edges of civilization. Inner city and inner suburban kids probably won't have any idea where you grew up even though it might be 30 minutes away from them. You'll probably be an Ag major.
Again, these are just stereotypes. And this will mean nothing to people who are from elsewhere, but I think the metro Atlanta people get what I'm saying.
I would really feel for the kids in Georgia who identified themselves as being from a HS outside of the Atlanta Metro!!!
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.
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Its a common question in San Francisco once you discover the person you're speaking to is a native (which is an increasingly rare thing). "Where'dya go to school?" always means where did you go to high school and it answers volumes about your social standing and even ethnicity.
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