dragonimp

o1. Go to Google and type, "You know you're from (your city or state) when...." (hit "I'm feeling lucky")
o2. Cut and paste the list.
o3. Bold the items that apply to you

I put in "California" and it was 80% about SoCal. I put in "Bay Area" and it was 70% about Silicon Valley and the Berkeley/Oakland area. My area doesn't exist in the public consciousness (and neither do the far north or the Central Valley). But here's the Bay Area one:

You know you live in the Bay Area when ...

You get the same off-color email joke from 17 people in the same hour, and one of them is your wife. [2]

Your "personal shopper" has become engaged to your "career coach". [1]

You have a daughter named Meg and a son named URL. [1]

You bought stock in Starbucks just for the free chocolate-covered coffee beans. [1]

You recently built your children their first "tilt-up" concrete playhouse. [1]

Almost all of the companies featured on your resume are no longer in business. [1]

You make $120,000 a year, yet still can't find a place to live.

Your commute time is 45 minutes and you live 8 miles away. (Don't take 580)

You live an hour or more from the office so that you can afford a larger house.

You spend more time in your office and car than in your house.

You stop asking how much things cost, but instead ask "how long will it take?"

Two-thirds of the people you know are from Boston or New York, but you are living in PST.

You know vast differences difference between Thai, Vietnemese, Chinese, Japanese, Cantonese, and Korean food.

Your home computer contains mostly hardware/software that is not on the consumer market yet.

You go to "The City" on weekends but don't live there because you like your car.

You think that "I'm going to Fry's" is an acceptable excuse to leave the office for a while, and your boss does too.

You lost your alarm clock, but you'll get to work when you get there. (Pffft - not at the jobs I've had...)

You go to your favorite Los Gatos restaurant, but Clinton and Gore took it over for dinner again.

You go to an industrial-heavy-metal bar and see two guys get into a fight over what flavor of Unix is better.

You own more than 10 articles of clothing that have hardware/software companies printed on them. Bonus for embroidered stuff.

You know where Woz Way, Resistor Avenue, and Floppy Drive are located.

You know who and where Woz is.

You know that 280 North goes west and that 680 North goes east. (And if you set out on 280 South you end up on 680 North. Not to mention that 580 West and 80 East are the same road for a stretch.)

It rained ... and your birdbath fell over ... or your tree fell over ... or a utility pole fell over.

It rained ... and the spiders came in ... and the ants came in ... and the mice came in.

You realize that even though Microsoft employs quite a few programmers in the Bay Area, they only work on PowerPoint.

You see a billboard that says "FPG2ASIC" and understand what it means.

You can get the updated Diamond Monster 3D drivers by just walking across the street.

The phone company installed fiber-optic cable to your home but they can't afford to light it up.

You have more bandwidth inside your home than there is in most major universities.

Your wireless LAN is interfering with your wireless phone and your home automation system. (We do have LAN and wireless phones, but no home automation.)