I think there is some truth to this, I'll share some anecdotal stories below.
Earlier in the fall I went to meet up with a friend of mine at a local very popular hangout spot on a weekday night. He had brought some girl along that he had been dating, she was somewhere around 25ish or so. Anyway, I tried starting a conversation with her when he briefly left to use the bathroom and I asked her if she was from the area. Her response was an extremely awkward and drawn out "Why?". I was taken a bit off guard by that response because it was just so awkward and I literally told her that it was a conversation opener lol.
There was a time I recall, around fall of 2018, where someone I was out with wanted to go talk to this pair of girls. I wasn't really that interested but I let him focus on the one he was interested in and I tried talking to her friend there. Anyway, I asked her what her name was and then asked "So are you from here?" and she said "No" and just awkwardly stood there staring at me. Then I asked where she was from, I think she said CA, and then she just continued the awkward nonsense with just staring at me whilst putting 0 effort into the conversation. I completely lost any interest in talking to her and I just turned my head away, this was to the point where it made me really uncomfortable and I wanted to walk away entirely but didn't want to leave my friend by himself. She stood there staring at me for a few seconds and then her and her friend walked off. My friend asked me what happened and I told him what had gone down and how painfully awkward the interaction was.
I've had quite a few other stories similar to the ones above but those stand out to me.