[Cytobit]

Sometimes, I'll hear someone talk about a place called "Virginia", and I'll have no idea what they are talking about. Eventually, I figure out through context clues that they are referring to the Commonwealth of Virginia. I wish they would save me the time of having to constantly explain why they are wrong.

[brobinson]

Bad analogy. This would be like people calling Rhode Island "Newport". The official state name is (the State of) "Rhode Island" (and Providence Plantations), and calling it by the name of one of its territories makes no sense.

[DoofusOfDeath]

Tangential factoid: often people (especially tourists) say Newport when they actually mean Aquidneck Island.

Source: I've lived in that area.

[wolco]

Yet we all knew you meant Rhode Island by saying Newport.

[__s]

I didn't

[wolco]

Let's try a few others.

South Beach?

LA?

Vegas?

[nl]

Even people from Fremantle wouldn't expect to say "South Beach" and have people outside Perth know where that is.