@HelloOutThere gee, I’m sorry you read my term “we don’t all come from the USA” as offensive? If you read closely, I was actually referring that part of my post to the use of abbreviations for AREAS and my example was PNW.
“so many people are also quoting areas that some of us have no idea where you are talking about e.g. PNW. We don’t all come from the USA and I get tired of having to Google what and where these places are and what the abbreviations mean.”
I then went on to explain that I could use SEQ in Australia but nobody would know where I was talking about. THAT was my reference and I am sorry if you took it to mean anything but.
As you yourself do often, I simply stated my beliefs, which I don’t think are out of the Forum guidelines?
I am still scratching my head as to what GTS means, but I guess you are entitled to use abbreviations as Carla said. You are free to think what you will of what I wrote but maybe, being “global” you just took it to a personal level where that was not the intent. My topic had nothing to do with hobs or cleaning up or eskys etc etc, it was about abbreviations, particularly areas that members of THS are trying to figure out where, in case it is relevant to their search or interest. People need to read the context of things and not simply parts of a topic that they choose to focus on I feel. Oh, and most of my family come from Boston so I have absolutely no issue with the USA if you feel that may be a thing? I visit often and have a great time and am made to feel very welcome!
Insofar as bringing the forum into, or back to, the 20th century, please remember we are not Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook or any of those platforms. Trusted Housesitters has a HUGE number of homeowners AND sitters who come from those days gone by and it is not the place for a house-sitting forum to educate people, or expect people, to update their writing and grammar skills to anyone’s modern day standards. If my mother were on here, she would have a nervous breakdown trying to figure some things out! I’m quite positive that there are thousands of members like this who don’t need bringing into the 21st century on a PAID house/pet sitting site. I am not against abbreviations, I just wish they weren’t used here and definitely not used to abbreviate locations which is what THS is about also - locations. Let’s leave that for social media sites hey?
The topic was a bit of fun there for a bit which is a lovely change, but obviously it is not so now so I shall leave this. Glad to have read so many positives though, I understand we can’t always agree on everything but open discussion is what forums are about and people are free to read into them whatever they choose to.
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