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I've noticed the same thing and also react similarly.

It also becomes apparent when talking about issues such as zoning, and housing. (Every time you hear talk about reassessing houses for taxes I get confused, because in the UK, and Finland, the two countries where I've lived and bought property, we don't have annual taxes that work like that.)

Mostly I bite my tongue and keep quiet, though there have been a few Brexit-related posts over the past few years where I can sometimes be involved.

>>stevek+(OP)
Often even to those inside the us the zoning and housing get very SF/cali specific so I hear you

>>stevek+(OP)
Isn’t zoning and housing inherently specific to the location of the housing or whatever is being zoned? It seems natural to discuss it with that frame of reference implied.

>>bww+E4
Absolutely, but even within the states I suspect that a lot of things relating to zoning, taxes, etc, vary.

I hear people talk about "Proposition XXX" restricting "stuff", and I wonder if other Americans from different parts of the country would even know what that was.

>>stevek+Q9
We don't. All of the "Proposition XXX" stuff is from California. It's pretty annoying when people post those things without an explanation, assuming everyone knows what CA is doing.