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Hey everybody, it's Nick Layton. And it's Leah Bonema. And we had so many great questions from you all in the wilderness.

Oh!

That we've a bonus episode.

So here we go.

Our first question is, quote,

When do you know if your city is sufficiently well known to merit the answer of just the name without the state when asked, where are you from?

Places like Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle,

they're probably iconic enough to need no further details. But is it rude to presume others

will know where you mean if you say Rochester, Portland, Springfield, or Reno, just to name a few?

On one hand, it seems arrogant to assume people will know what I mean if I respond

with Scottsdale, especially internationally. But on the other hand, it could also be quite

condescending to say Scottsdale, Arizona, in the United States, since most other country's

citizens are far more geographically well-versed than folks here and probably know exactly what I mean

without the extra details.

How do you know when to be specific to spare that other person the potential embarrassment of

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