Dissassociative.
Oct. 19th, 2016 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pen_gruntTraveling frequently makes for weird brain-compartments where cities are concerned. Anywhere in Florida is always "going to Florida".
Someone mentioned I was going to Maryland next week and I had to think about it for a moment. Baltimore has such a strong name recognition that I forget it's Maryland. (I mean, I KNOW that it is, but that's not immediately what I associate it with.) The same is true for Boston. Boston is its own world. But yeah...it's Massachusetts. Maybe it's this way with the East-Coast "legacy" cities more than the newer, younger cities that aren't so imprinted on my history brain. I never "forget" that Billings is in Montana or Dallas is in Texas.
Someone mentioned I was going to Maryland next week and I had to think about it for a moment. Baltimore has such a strong name recognition that I forget it's Maryland. (I mean, I KNOW that it is, but that's not immediately what I associate it with.) The same is true for Boston. Boston is its own world. But yeah...it's Massachusetts. Maybe it's this way with the East-Coast "legacy" cities more than the newer, younger cities that aren't so imprinted on my history brain. I never "forget" that Billings is in Montana or Dallas is in Texas.
