- Do other countries have this weird notion that you’re not a “real” representative of the nation if you live in an urban center? Like do the French say Parisians aren’t really French? Are you considered not a real German if you live in Berlin? Or is this mainly a weird American thing?Jan 1, 2026 16:19
- Oh yeah, big time. In Portugal, there's Lisbon, or sometimes all coastal urban areas lumped together, and then there’s "o país real", the "real country". So dumb.
