How would I say "The place where I come from/where I come from"


If wished to say "The weather where I come from is worse" i.e., the weather in
the place where I come from, how would I say this naturally? Would I use
「故郷」、「出身地」、or is there a more natural way of saying this? Thanks




The phrase "where I come from" in English is kind of vague. Some people will
use it to mean where they were born, some people will use it to mean where
they grew up, and some people will use it to describe the place they currently
live (which may be neither the place they were born nor the place they grew
up).

Fortunately, Japanese has lots of options for you on this. I actually wasn't
clear on some of the more fine grain differences myself, and used [this
article](https://chigai-
allguide.com/%E5%87%BA%E7%94%9F%E5%9C%B0%EF%BC%88%E7%94%9F%E3%81%BE%E3%82%8C%EF%BC%89%E3%81%A8%E5%87%BA%E8%BA%AB%E5%9C%B0%E3%81%A8%E5%9C%B0%E5%85%83%E3%81%A8%E6%95%85%E9%83%B7/)
as a reference.

  * 出生地 is literally "birthplace". This pretty explicitly means where you were born.
  * 出身地 is slightly more general, and is probably closer to English's "place where one comes from", broadly meaning the place where you grew up. My impression is that like English, unless you specify otherwise, people also often assume you were born here. ＜どこか＞出身 is also a very common pattern; I.E. 東京出身 to mean you grew up in Tokyo.
  * 地元 is "hometown" in the sense of being the place where most of your life is - job, social circle, sphere of influence, etc. 
  * 故郷 is "hometown" in the sense of being the place where you were born and raised.

That said, the these words are close enough together that the lines between
their usages are fairly blurred, and native speakers may not always use them
exactly in line with their dictionary definition. Anecdotally, I am fairly
sure I've heard someone use 地元 to talk about the place where they grew up,
despite living and working somewhere else. The article I referenced even
mentions that this word in particular is starting to be used with basically
the same meaning as 故郷.

To answer your original question, for broadly talking about "where one comes
from", I would use 出身地.

Edit: Please make sure to also read through mackygoo's answer. I've addressed
word choice here, but he has a lot of good stuff about natural language usage
that better addresses the "how would I say" portion of the question.

