“Where are you from?” By Sarah Polonsky, in News, Lisbon · 01-04-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
Easily the most popular ice breaker on the planet. Often there’s nowhere interesting to take a conversation from here. Usually, it will be followed by more benign questions like, “Oh, do you know John-something? He’s from there!”
Nope, don’t know him, don’t care let’s be a bit more creative people, we are Lisboners – no one reading this is from here, am I right? Right.
For over a decade my reply to “where are you from” has been spiced up, becoming what you might describe as one of my catchphrases: “Wherever the Wi-Fi is. That is where I’m from.”