Weird question, clearly off topic:

If you are asked your city of birth, and the hospital in which you were born and the home where your parents lived at the time are in different cities, which city do you select?

Your birth certificate reflects where you were born. The city where the hospital is located. So, that's the legal answer. Your passport reflects that as well. Pretty common situation. True for me and both of my kids.

Is this supposed to be a trick question?

Are you talking about being born in Africa, but going home with your mom to Hawaii, or about being born in Oakland because Piedmont doesn't have a hospital?

Whichever is on the right side of the tracks, of course.

Berkeley, 1959, Alta Bates. Went home to Albany. Never any doubt about my place of birth. 4th generation, since my great great grandfather emigrated from the Azores in 1867.

Berkeley, Ca. Alta Bates- son of an Alum and a grad myself of Haas, business school.

A Cal Bear by heredity and environment....

nwbear84 said:

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Your birth certificate reflects where you were born. The city where the hospital is located. So, that's the legal answer. Your passport reflects that as well. Pretty common situation. True for me and both of my kids.

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My entire immediate family except one child was born in a hospital located in the same city as the family home. I found it odd that that one child lists the POB as the hospital's city.

ColoradoBear said:

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Is this supposed to be a trick question?

Are you talking about being born in Africa, but going home with your mom to Hawaii?

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Right? because every struggling grad student in Hawaii flies to Kenya when 8 months pregnant to give birth (then flies back to Hawaii to falsify hospital records, birth certificates, newspaper announcements, witnesses...) for the purpose of....
I'd think no one would be loony enough to believe a conspiracy theory of something so preposterous and lacking means and motive until I encountered the large number of people who believe the Earth is flat and "round Earth" is a vast conspiracy.

El Paso, Texas

Alta bates Berkeley CA

California Hospital, Los Angeles, California.

Beth Israel Hospital, Boston,MA.

Gouda, Netherlands

Goobear said:

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Gouda, Netherlands

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Well, that explains the family surname.

Yogi Bear said:

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Goobear said:

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Gouda, Netherlands

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Well, that explains the family surname.

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Indeed

When asked "where are you from?", I give the town where my parents lived at the time of birth and where I spent my first 18 years.

When filling out a form with "place of birth", I give the adjoining town where the hospital was.

Also, if you all don't mind:

What's the first name of your first girlfriend/boyfriend?
What are the first names of all your grandparents (please note which side of the family)?
What's the make and model of your first car?

General city where my parents were at the time.

JSC 76 said:

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When asked "where are you from?", I give the town where my parents lived at the time of birth and where I spent my first 18 years.

When filling out a form with "place of birth", I give the adjoining town where the hospital was.

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Alta Bates, CA; Bishop Berkeley Sisters of Fiat Lux Mercy Hospital.........pulled out by Dr Peter Patch

Oakland for both. Providence Hospital (absorbed by Merrit Peralta and now Alta Bates Summit). Both of my parents were born there as well. The cross remains on top of the original building. The Rosary was recited over the speaker system every night back in the day. It was a sacrilege for a local Irishman to be birthed elsewhere.

Also born at Providence in Oakland, but parents lived in Berkeley

NeverOddOrEven said:

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Also, if you all don't mind:

What's the first name of your first girlfriend/boyfriend?
What are the first names of all your grandparents (please note which side of the family)?
What's the make and model of your first car?

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Please drop your, address and SS# too. Oh and toss in your main email address just because.

Another Bear said:

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NeverOddOrEven said:

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Also, if you all don't mind:

What's the first name of your first girlfriend/boyfriend?
What are the first names of all your grandparents (please note which side of the family)?
What's the make and model of your first car?

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Please drop your, address and SS# too. Oh and toss in your main email address just because.

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Go right ahead! The people who hacked into Starwood's frequent-guest database already have all that information on you anyway and have already posted it on the dark web.

FuzzyWuzzy said:

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Weird question, clearly off topic:

If you are asked your city of birth, and the hospital in which you were born and the home where your parents lived at the time are in different cities, which city do you select?

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I select the city where the hospital was located, as does my older sister who had the same situation as me. My mother has always done the same. My father could have just said "New York City" which worked for both the hospital and where his parents lived, but he frequently would say he was born in Manhattan where the hospital was located, although his parents lived in Queens.

If being asked for legal purposes, then there is no option, the answer is the city the hospital was located (or where the station wagon was located in the case of my friend born in the back of a station wagon).

If being asked for friendly purposes, then it doesn't really matter much, give out whatever information you want. Few people have heard of the place where I was born (although more have heard of it since a basketball player who went to high school there became famous), but the hospital was across the street from a very large city. If people ask and I don't want any further questions, I'll say I was born, "just outside of [large city]." If I don't care if they ask further questions, I'll say either the actual name of the place, or "across the street from [large city]." Or if people are familiar with the area, I might say both where the hospital was and where my family lived.

Bottom line, you were born where the hospital was.

NeverOddOrEven said:

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Also, if you all don't mind:

What's the first name of your first girlfriend/boyfriend?
What are the first names of all your grandparents (please note which side of the family)?
What's the make and model of your first car?

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I am only prepared to give the password that I use for everything: Beelzebub

Richmondbear2 said:

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Berkeley, 1959, Alta Bates. Went home to Albany. Never any doubt about my place of birth. 4th generation, since my great great grandfather emigrated from the Azores in 1867.

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Thank you. Now can we have your social security number, your exact date of birth, your mother's maiden name, and the password for you bank account.

Yogi Bear said:

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Goobear said:

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Gouda, Netherlands

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Well, that explains the family surname.

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"Bear" is Dutch????

GivemTheAxe said:

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Richmondbear2 said:

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Berkeley, 1959, Alta Bates. Went home to Albany. Never any doubt about my place of birth. 4th generation, since my great great grandfather emigrated from the Azores in 1867.

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Thank you. Now can we have your social security number, your exact date of birth, your mother's maiden name, and the password for you bank account.

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A DNA spit sample will also be required, for future reference and harvesting.

If all the foregoing is not enough, our joyous Department of Justice has required all lawyers to be fingerprinted as a condition to receiving your annual bar card. I was fingerprinted, one finger, long ago when first admitted. This time they sent a specialist. He took my hand and my fingers and created a couple of pages worth of prints. The Bar says they "lost" the paper records of our original prints and need new ones. What they needed was digital prints in order to lose the paper records. It's all about the money.

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nwbear84 said:

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Your birth certificate reflects where you were born. The city where the hospital is located. So, that's the legal answer. Your passport reflects that as well. Pretty common situation. True for me and both of my kids.

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They may have changed that. My place of birth on my Passport is "California, USA"...which is nice
And passports are dark blue.

You are born where you are born. It doesnt matter if your Daddy killed fiddy men and was from Texas if you were born in NYC.

San Francisco

Glendale, CA. Eench, bro!