SUBREDDIT: r/legaladvice
TITLE: [Admin] Please be specific about your location
POST: We've had some confusion recently when an OP's location has used an ambiguous abbreviation, resulting in inaccurate advice.  So we are not only asking you to include your location **(preferably in the title or the first line of your post)** but to also be specific and clear about it.

Best:

* [Ontario, Can.] (or Canada)
* [Ontario, Cal.] (or Calif. or California)
* [San Francisco]
* [Duluth, IA]
* [Toronto]

Okay:

* [BC, CA] 
* [Cal.]
* [IA]
* [ME] [OK] [HI] [IN] -- be aware that because these are also common words, they all trigger locationbot to ask you for your location.  Writing them out would be better.

Bad:

* [CA] -- unclear if it means California or Canada
* [LA] -- unclear if it means Los Angeles or Louisiana
* [NorCal] [SoCal] -- not specific enough to be useful, either include the city or just say [California].
* [Midwest] [South] -- states have their own laws, a region is not sufficient.
* [Europe] -- at a minimum, include the country.
* [Chicagoland] -- not specific enough and can be misleading if you're in a suburban city, which may have different laws from Chicago itself in some respects.
* [Ontario] [Springfield] [Arlington] [Portland] [Stratford] [Oxford] [Orange County] -- for example.  There are multiple places with these names.

We also ask for city/town as well as state, if you feel you can tell us that without compromising anonymity, because many questions are city specific -- especially anything about a municipal code violation, and also some landlord/tenant rules.  But your state or province is the minimum you need to include.
TL;DR: 
If there's any chance your abbreviation might also mean somewhere else, write it out instead.  Include at least your state or province in every post.