I live in Michigan, and I was convinced for the longest time that New Jersey (where my grandparents lived) was a different country. I mean, Canada is a different country and New Jersey was waaaay more different from Michigan than Toronto is.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- i used to think, when i was about 4 that i lived inside a whale because i live ion the country Wales— mike
- When I was a child I always thought Canada was apart of the US... not its own country!! — clueless youngster
- when i was younger I thought that canada was only toronto, mississauga, burlington and niagara falls.Anon
- When I was little, I used to believe that Illinois (where I lived) was a countryAnon
- I used to think wars started when a sergeant from one country socked a sergeant from another country.— recovering
- I used to think the Black Country region in the UK was called that because everyone lived in darkness there.— K