"In my neck of the woods" "Around here" "Where I live" -- How about an actual location?

[Eric@ict]

I’m in Kansas, when we talk about skiing, it’s one of two place. Either Colorado, or the hill that was made for the on/off ramps.

 

[Ski&ride]

I may get blasted for this.

But I think it’s stupid to offer one’s personal information on a public forum. Google and Apple make billions on our private information. Why should i encourage that by giving it out for free?

 

[Sibhusky]

Because privacy is an illusion. And it adds context to your posts.

I get your concern, but Google already knows everything. And it's not hidden from Google if you've already given it out in a post. You're just making it easier on us to find it when we need to. But Google knows unless, like my husband, you never ever post anything anywhere.

 

[Ski&ride]

Because privacy is an illusion. And it adds context to your posts.

I get your concern, but Google already knows everything. And it's not hidden from Google if you've already given it out in a post. You're just making it easier on us to find it when we need to. But Google knows unless, like my husband, you never ever post anything anywhere.

It’s less about privacy, more about the intrinsic value to every piece of information.

Google makes tons of money on our “public“ informations by selling it to the advertisers. So such information has values. I’m just a tighttwit and don’t want to give it out when I don’t have to.

In this case, google doesn’t know about “me”. It only knows a poster on pugski skis a lot and lives.... nowhere!

As for the context, you know I live in the northeast, maybe even a bit more specific, from my posts.

 

[DanoT]

Google makes tons of money on our “public“ informations by selling it to the advertisers. So such information has values. I’m just a tighttwit and don’t want to give it out when I don’t have to.

My thinking is that if I am going to get ads show up, I would just as soon have them focused on things or places that I am interested in so I actually might make use of the product being advertised.

And I don't care if Google has found a way to make money from otherwise useless insignificant information about me. In fact it makes me feel more important than I actually am.

 

[Sibhusky]

I was happy to discover that Google thought I was a white male in my 50's. I haven't let them know otherwise. Not sure if that's their default or they infer that from where I go. Let them think that.

But having to root through every post you've ever made to find out where you are is a pain. I only do that kind of research on people if they have pissed me off. LOL!

 

[François Pugh]

I was happy to discover that Google thought I was a white male in my 50's. I haven't let them know otherwise. Not sure if that's their default or they infer that from where I go. Let them think that.

But having to root through every post you've ever made to find out where you are is a pain. I only do that kind of research on people if they have pissed me off. LOL!

If someone pissed me off that much, the last thing I would do is internet research; it's too traceable and will help the missing person investigation, which if successful, will also prove premeditation.

 

[crgildart]

I only do that kind of research on people if they have pissed me off. LOL!

And you don't want to piss him off!

 

[Turoa Kiwi]

Not clear what is being asked for.
I show my location as Hailey, Idaho, but how many people know that Hailey is 13 miles from Sun Valley?
When referring to skiing, I usually try to say Sun Valley, but sometimes say my mountain.
Even referring to the mountain as Sun Valley is technically incorrect, since Sun Valley is the resort and immediately surrounding municipality, while the mountains are Bald Mountain and Dollar Mountain.
This is covered in my unofficial guide, since it can be confusing.
So what should I Say?

Yep
First time we skied in your 'neck of the woods" we entered Sun Valley into the GPS and ended up in ....Sun Valley, 3-4 kms away from Bald Mountain.

 

[Ski&ride]

But having to root through every post you've ever made to find out where you are is a pain.

But why would you care where I live, and how does it add “ context” in a ski forum?

There’s no skiing where I live. Does it matter I live in Texas vs Florida vs New Jersey?

 

[DanoT]

But why would you care where I live, and how does it add “ context” in a ski forum?

There’s no skiing where I live. Does it matter I live in Texas vs Florida vs New Jersey?

Well, knowing where one usually skis gives a frame of reference to one's opinions about equipment, weather, or other ski related topics.

 

[Ski&ride]

Well, knowing where one usually skis gives a frame of reference to one's opinions about equipment, weather, or other ski related topics.

Except I don’t have a “usually” ski place!

Unless you count Colorado... where I do not live, nor skied more than half my days...( the only thing significant about Colorado is I ski there practically every season for the past 20 years, even if it’s only a few days. But then, the same can almost be said about Vermont — though only if you throw NH into it)

 

[James]

In the USA the Mississippi River is generally accepted as the point between east and west. Not sure what that point would be for Canada.

Maybe because of radio station call signs?And those people could still remember Indian Wars. However, I looked it up, and originally the western line went north from the Texas/NM border. It changed in 1923.


The original is more accurate for west. Then we would have coastal with CA, OR, WA.

It’s all a matter of perspective, as Saul Steinberg showed in 1976. It’s the Hudson River, not the Mississippi.

 

[DanoT]

When I was a student at the university of Akron I was told that Ohio was in the Mid West, but on the other side of Lake Erie from Cleveland is Eastern Canada.

In a country as big as Canada we don't even have a Mid West, the border between East and West is the Ontario-Manitoba border.

 

[Uncle-A]

Maybe because of radio station call signs?And those people could still remember Indian Wars. However, I looked it up, and originally the western line went north from the Texas/NM border. It changed in 1923.

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The original is more accurate for west. Then we would have coastal with CA, OR, WA.

It’s all a matter of perspective, as Saul Steinberg showed in 1976. It’s the Hudson River, not the Mississippi.

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That is interesting, I think that they still teach the Mississippi River as a dividing line between east and west. By today geopolitical country it is the two coasts and the rest of the country.

 

[noncrazycanuck]

that's because no one who has a choice lives anywhere other than on the coasts in either nation.
and that is going to keep increasing

 

[Sibhusky]

that's because no one who has a choice lives anywhere other than on the coasts in either nation.
and that is going to keep increasing

Joke, right? Need an emoticon.

 

[Ken_R]

that's because no one who has a choice lives anywhere other than on the coasts in either nation.
and that is going to keep increasing

Most people in this forum would love to live west of the red line. Just sayin'

 

[Sibhusky]

A lot of them are coming here.
Missoulian: Missoula housing prices soar.

Missoula housing prices soar

Some Realtors see a surge in out-of-state buyers, but there's still no way to reliably track those numbers.

missoulian.com

 

[Bad Bob]

If you want to get a Texan to fur up tell them they don't live in the West. It should be it't own geographical area.