Use of 'where' as a general clausal conjunction

[äreo]

I frequently hear people in my area using 'where' in such phrases as 'the kind of person where they're like blah blah blah' and 'guy where there's less sadness'. Do these sound grammatical to the other English speakers here?

[vec]

Longer examples please?

Also, where is your area, out of curiosity?

[äreo]

Around Houston, Texas. The basic sense I'm getting is that 'where' kinda means the same as 'for whom' or 'with whom'. The following clause will often be independent, like 'it's a thing where I don't know what to do' or 'she's the kind person where she has no standards.

[Trailsend]

Sure, people around here (northern California) and back home (Colorado) use that all the time.

I hate taking classes where the professor knows less than the students.

It was one of those moments where no one knows what to say but everyone wants to say something.

You know, that movie where Kevin Bacon is the psycho lab rat guy?

[äreo]

But do they ever use it specifically for people or things and not settings? That's what I'm describing.

[linguoboy]

There's a close parallel to this in Breisgauer Alemannic (and other southern German dialects). The conjunction in question is wu (= Standard German wo). E.g.: "diä Frau, wu mer gwartet hän uf si" (lit. "the woman, where we waited have on her" = "the woman who we waited for").

[Ars Lande]

IIRC Modern Greek does the same with που 'that, where'

[Ulrike Meinhof]

There may be a bit of idiosyncracy to it, but I often find myself using parallel constructions with där in Swedish. No examples spring to mind.

[Alces]

They sound grammatical to me.

[Yng]

That and 'what', yes. I don't use either but I've heard both.

[cromulent]

No, I don't hear "where" used for people. It sounds ungrammatical to me.