Apparently when they say 'local' I guess they mean within the United States.
The process of moving to California was one of the most stressful things I've ever done in my entire life.
Not only was there the burden of moving all my worldly possessions from one place to another, (which I've done at least once per year since I was 17,) but this time Ash and I were doing it across state lines and over thousands of miles with two whining animals (our dog Spike and our cat Willow) in tow. Then, of course, we broke down twice, once in Colorado and again in Nevada, before nearly running out of money in Reno, Nevada (and if I never get back to the world's biggest ashtray which comprises that hell on earth it will be too soon.)
But the one thing I didn't expect to be annoyed by were the radio advertisements when I got here. When I lived in Indiana I sort of assumed that certain businesses were local and others were national. I thought I had this pretty well locked down until I moved out here and saw California adverts. I was shocked to learn that both J.G. Wentworth, structured settlement and annuity-buyer, and the Shane Company, which is apparently based in Denver and is the largest privately held jeweler in the United States, were not, in fact, based in the Hoosier state. I had no idea. For some naive reason I thought that since the owners of these two companies come on air and talk to the people directly during their commercials and then listed the locations of local stores that they were Indiana-based.
And here I thought I had a friend in the diamond business.