How do you recognize out-of-towners?

[Phalex]

People come from Grand Rapids, no one intentionally comes here from someplace else.

[Mike N]

Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya

If you're at Graceland you're very likely a tourist. I've only met a handful of native Memphians who have actually gone there. Most seem to have no interest in it.

Last (and only) time I was in Memphis I didn't go. No interest.

[nortonrider]

Here in the Rocky Mountains it's pretty simple............ Their Driving!

People from New Mexico drive up the mountain like Dale Earnhardt at Talladega
and then ride their brakes all the way down the other side.

Texans just drive like crap all of the time and will stop in the middle of the road
without warning.

[El Beardo]

Usually they have really bad and/or strange sunburns.

[jrthebassguy]

Some tourists think we all cowboy hats, so they buy their own, only to see that very few people wear them, just the more redneck exurbs on the outskirts and the occasional eccentric politician.

[ishkabibble]

"Hey, this is the city where Bill and Ted takes place in, right? Where's the Circle K?"






We don't get many tourists, mind you.

[slobake]

Originally Posted by ishkabibble

"Hey, this is the city where Bill and Ted takes place in, right? Where's the Circle K?"






We don't get many tourists, mind you.

Didn't SWR used to located in San Dimas?

Bogus

[TOOL460002]

More on San Francisco: Don't forget the guy behind the bush; jumps out, scares the **** out of tourists, causes them to drop their clam chowder... and then gets paid for it! I love that homeless/panhandler guy. Check him out on YouTube if you don't know of him.

[elgecko]

Originally Posted by slobake

Didn't SWR used to located in San Dimas?

Bogus

I thought they were out of the Valley. I think Charvel and/or Jackson are or used to be based out of San Dimas.

[fjadams]

Hate to tell all you San Frans, but "The City", has, does and always will mean NYC, or The Big Apple if all you know about it is from watching TV.

Here in Lincoln, you can tell they're "Outstaters" if they look like slack jawed cowboys wearing red.

[hbarcat]

Originally Posted by alembicguy

They usually have all their teeth and are wearing some kind of Bob Dylan fan shirt.

Epic answer from the land of ten thousand lakes.

[HaMMerHeD]

It is difficult to tell around here. Between 1/4 and 1/3 of the population are out-of-towners.

[papilgee4evaeva]

Originally Posted by slobake

I knew this was going to come up, my brother from Long Beach made the same comment. It's a local thing as in suburbs verses the city. I have a feeling people from other urban areas use this term too.

Two cases I can speak for with certainty:

Baltimore is often referred to as "the city" by locals. Almost the entire city is surrounded by Baltimore County, which shares the name but is politically distinct (Baltimore City is not part of any county).

In New York, even though five boroughs comprise the entire city, Manhattan alone is frequently referred to as "the city."

[papilgee4evaeva]

My contribution: (Note: I'm going to use the city/area where I grew up instead of where I live now)

In Hampton Roads, VA, one can get from one side to the other via one of the bridge-tunnel facilities (I-64, Hampton to Norfolk; I-664, Newport News to Suffolk). We can always tell the out-of-towners by how they drive waaaaaaaaaay too slow in the tunnels that have signs "MAINTAIN 55" posted throughout.

[jrthebassguy]

Originally Posted by nortonrider

Here in the Rocky Mountains it's pretty simple............ Their Driving!

People from New Mexico drive up the mountain like Dale Earnhardt at Talladega
and then ride their brakes all the way down the other side.

Texans just drive like crap all of the time and will stop in the middle of the road
without warning.

Sorry, most of us have never seen, like, mountains before. They are just so big! And you even have snow on some of them during the summer! I thought snow was the stuff of legend!

[Floyd Eye]

STL gets very few tourists. You can spot them by the way they drive. If they stop at a stop sign they're probably tourists. The being downtown after dark thing gives them away here too. If they are waiting to go up in the arch, they are tourists ( I was born here and lived here most of my life and I have been in it once). If they are wearing Cubs jerseys and look like they just got the crap beat out of them, they are tourists. If guns scare them they are tourists. If they are drinking any beer made in Milwaukee they are tourists.

By the way, STL is a sizeable suburban metropolis and no one who lives here refers to STL proper as anything other than "The city".

[4dog]

Texans just drive like crap all of the time and will stop in the middle of the road
without warning.[/quote]

What do you expect, its flat here, we only see mountains in pictures and movies, we never drive over them, its scary.

[agent77]

Originally Posted by papilgee4evaeva

My contribution: (Note: I'm going to use the city/area where I grew up instead of where I live now)

In Hampton Roads, VA, one can get from one side to the other via one of the bridge-tunnel facilities (I-64, Hampton to Norfolk; I-664, Newport News to Suffolk). We can always tell the out-of-towners by how they drive waaaaaaaaaay too slow in the tunnels that have signs "MAINTAIN 55" posted throughout.

I used to live in Norfolk/VA Beach. For the first 6 months I was there those tunnels scared the $**t outta me. I remember being told, "stop checking for leaks, and step on the f*****g gas!"

[agent77]

Why would anyone visit Erie?

[ishkabibble]

Originally Posted by elgecko

I thought they were out of the Valley. I think Charvel and/or Jackson are or used to be based out of San Dimas.

Charvel and Jackson were out of Glendora during the 80s, iirc.
Wasn't born during that era, but they either just had a P.O. box based in San Dimas or they were in a facility that was barely across the border between San Dimas and Glendora, depending on what you read.
Though GMP Guitars is based down the street from the elementary school I went to.