Sterotypes for your city or state.

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England: According to Americans, we're all tea drinkers full of quaint customs who live in the country and act as if we're all upper-class.

Lancashire (my county): According to those in the Home Counties and London (the South-East), we Northerners are blunt, slow, unsophisticated, working-class hicks.

English: Upper-class aristocrats who listen to nothing but The Beatles, and are willing to start wars over pronouncing the word 'Scone' either as in 'throne' or as in 'gone'.
OR
A bunch of skinhead racists listening to nothing but the Sex Pistols with safety pin piercings, all owning bulldogs and putting two fingers up at people we don't like.

Wiltshire:
A bunch of country-land farmers getting drunk on cider, mixing with 60s-reject hippie pot smokers and people who say they're all either called 'Arthur Pendragon' or 'Guiniviere Pendragon' massing around stone circles naked, and sleeping with our brothers/sisters.

Though I can name a few people who do fit those stereotypes, most of us...NO WAY.

I now live in central Washington (Yakima Valley) but I used to live in Bellevue, WA for almost two years. That city is considered one of the richest areas in the state. So everyone in that city, west of the 140th Ave NE/SE line was considered rich, snotty, with loads of money and always went on huge vacations. I actually was one of the few poor middle schoolers in that western part of Bellevue. (had lost our house 15 miles north of the city to foreclosure) Everyone got to go to Hawaii, or southern California, or a week-long vacation to freakin' Paris or Rome for spring break, while I struggled to take a day trip with my dad to Puyallup to do some shopping. (30 miles maybe)

Tacoma is always considered a ghetto, gang filled city. Which I do agree actually!

I'm from Russia, live in Oklahoma

-Thinking the only thing we eat is potatoes and drink only vodka.
-Believing we all wear cowboy hats, have "Indian camps" in our backyards (got asked that one time), accents, cowboys everywhere, that we're stupid...We don't live in the old western movies!!

"Fun" tidbit:
The Weinstein brothers wanted to dumb down the film "Snowpiercer" (2014) for audiences living in the midwest in fear that that we wouldn't "get it."

Britain:
-Drink tea all the time
-Have bad breath
-Yellow teeth
-Love to queue
-All British are monarchists
-Stuck-up gits
-Foul tempered
-Posh tw*ts

London:
-All Londoners speak with a Cockney accent

I don't have a Cockney accent and I rarely drink tea. The only tea that I drink regularly is jasmine tea.

I live just outside a small village in Devon
Everyone there is...
-A farmer who owns at least 5 shotguns
-White and secretly intolerant of other cultures
- A UKIP supporter

SoCal, my general area
most of these are true.
we're all about drama, hipsters, we say "dude" all the time, liberals, beach bums (big one right here)
we're all fake, we wear Hollister and vans, spray tanned, on snapchat and tumblr 24/7, and vine-ing about their perf organic decaf chai deconstructed gluten-free tall frappuccino from Starbucks, but most of these people are newcomers to the area that haven't gotten the memo that they're trying wayy to hard to fit in.

as for my hometown, Santa Barbara, we're not that big enough to have stereotypes i think, but we're close to Isla Vista, and you can see how that is.

Netherlandsh, we shmoke weed and go to proshtitutesh all the time. We alsho talk like Goldmember in Aushtin Powersh, with really shtupid sh-shoundsh. At the shame time, we are also all flower farmersh who wear wooden clogsh. Lashtly, our football/shoccer playersh can fly (Robin van Persie ftw).

In-n-Out is the best most magical food ever!
like, riiiight?

I live in Ireland, and my town's stereotype is that we are all arrogant, stubborn and close minded.

It's pretty true, but thankfully, I technically live in the county beside it (I'm sorry if it's confusing) where there isn't really a stereotype for the people.

I guess I am supposed to follow the whole Irish stereotype of being short, musical, alcoholic and dancing whilst wearing green and having red hair and freckles.

I live north of the Watford Gap so no one understands what I say when talking.
I wear a kilt and live in a house with my cows and wear a funny little hat with a red pom-pom on it.
I go out each morning to shoot haggis for breakfast and steal a few sheep from the English landowner.
I then have a few drams of whisky before sending Scottish currency to the English electricity company to pay my bill a month overdue.
I am related to all American tourists.

I live in Canada, and theres all the typical Canadian stereotypes:

-That its cold all year round
-We all love to play hockey
-We say 'eh' and 'aboot'
-We speak fluent French
-We eat poutine and bacon for every meal

I live in Toronto, and Rob Ford probably doesn't give it the best reputation......

^ Do you say Banff or Bumph though?

Here in the south west of England, I have noticed small stereotypes from places... From my opinion, Bristolians and Bath residents are for some reason to my eyes better looking than those some 100 miles north in Birmingham... With those in Gloucester and Cheltenham being half way in between. Then those in Swindon and Reading are half wag between Bristol and Gloucester. But this all could be my imagination on differences in facial characteristics.