<i>&gt; On a side note, pot is the #1 thing that people want to talk about when I tell them where I&#x27;m from. In their eyes, CO == pot.</i><p>Haha, i sympathise: i lived near Amsterdam for many years (i&#x27;m a non-smoker), and almost anyone non-Dutch i ever met outside of the Netherlands would immediately mime smoking when it became clear where i lived.  Conversely, this was usually relatively strongly negatively correlated with how cool i was likely to find the person in general, so i tried to see it as a useful people-filter :p.