Is Your City Listed?
By Ruth Pearson
@Gwensmom (504)
United States
August 14, 2015 11:15pm CST
On your profile, after you choose state you can choose your town.
But, can you?
I can't.
My town is not listed. None of the towns near me are listed.
But, teeny tiny towns that most people have not heard of are listed.
Not that Iowa is full of huge towns. Quite the opposite.
But 2000 people is bigger than 200 people.
So, I just find that weird.
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9 responses
@allknowing (130292)
• India
15 Aug 15
I have not checked but even if my city was listed I would not enable it. @myLotBugs could perhaps check on this.
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@Gwensmom (504)
• United States
15 Aug 15
@allknowing I have done that before to find someone and sometimes they show up and sometimes not.
@myLotBugs (211)
• Kansas City, Missouri
17 Aug 15
What is the name of the city that is missing?
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@myLotBugs (211)
• Kansas City, Missouri
17 Aug 15
@Gwensmom We got the database of cities from a 3rd party. I can see what you're saying. It's missing a lot of cities from Iowa. Anyway, it was pretty easily to manually add cities, so I added both Monroe and Prairie City. You should be able to add those to specify those in your profile now, if you'd like.
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@Gwensmom (504)
• United States
17 Aug 15
I live outside Monroe and that is not on there. Prairie City is close and that is not on the list either. I could understand if it went by population, but some towns on the list are smaller. There are many other towns that aren't there.
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
15 Aug 15
I just checked and yeah mine is on the list. I think that's actually pretty cool because just a few years ago we weren't even on the map, just one of those small towns no one has ever heard of.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
15 Aug 15
I believe mine is listed yes, let me go see. Yes it is listed.
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@taramarie39 (667)
• Williamsburg, Virginia
16 Aug 15
Mine is listed either. I'm kinda glad it is not though. Maybe it will get better.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
15 Aug 15
I don't know where they got the lists from (and I'm pretty sure that MyLot didn't compile it themselves) but there are certainly some oddities and some glaring omissions!
Fortunately, my city is listed, so I was able to add it but I notice that many don't. It seems that you can, at least, select your State and then leave the town blank. I find it useful to see where people are from, mainly so that I know what time zone they live in. It's also useful if they talk about something which may be local to them and can help when trying to give an informed response! It's not a great deal of use advising someone that they might find what they are looking for at Tesco or Waitrose if they don't live in the UK!
BTW, I found it rather confusing to see a town called Wyoming when I had selected Iowa as the state! I had to go and check and, sure 'nuff ... there it is (with just over 500 inhabitants). We'd call that a village here!
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@Gwensmom (504)
• United States
15 Aug 15
Iowa also has a town called Washington, but I don't believe that is listed.
Government uses town and city interchangably around here. Village never gets used.
I never thought about listing the state for a time zone reference. That does make sense.
Government uses town and city interchangably around here. Village never gets used.
I never thought about listing the state for a time zone reference. That does make sense.
@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
15 Aug 15
I rarely ever list my hometown. I have the United States listed on mine and have not even checked to see if my town is included.
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@Gwensmom (504)
• United States
15 Aug 15
I also have United States. I do understand Owlwings stating that at least putting in the state might help for time zone. I have never been very good at knowing my time zones outside the US so I don't know how helpful it would be for me.
