I used to believe my Dad when he told me that many people that lived in our Canadian capital city Ottawa couldn't say "Ottawa" so they relocated to "Oshawa"... both cities are in Ontario.
Yup. I believed it.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Paris was the capital of London and Italy was the capital of France.Anon
- I was sure that Adelaide (where I lived) was the capital of Australia because they both started with
"A"— fiona - I used to believe that everyone who lived in the city lived in an apartment.— Marideth
- That the city of Christchurch was a big church which everybody lived in.— Christine
- when i was 4 my mom told me we lived in Indiana and i would tell people we lived in DianaAnon
- When I was little I believed that the people on TV lived in there. — linda