A Local's Guide to College Point, NY

I always found it amusing when I was a teen. I would take a fifteen minute bus ride to Flushing to hang out with my best friends. We would always gawk at the pretty girls and occasionally we would gather up the nerve to talk to them. In any conversation of this type, one of the main questions asked is "So where are you from?" As always, I would tell them I lived in College Point. Wouldn't you know it.... Nine out of ten times the reply would be: "Where is that?" Now, normally a question like that isn't such a huge deal when you live far away from the area you are hanging out in at that moment. If I were in Chicago, I would expect it. However, we would be standing just a few miles from my town and almost always I would have to explain where College Point was. I always thought that was one of the many beauties of College Point.