where i vs were i

Some examples from the web:

• I just remembered where I stashed mine.
• This is where I brought my girlfriend on our first date.
• I don't know where i am. stand by.
• That's where I felt safe.
• Not from where I was standing.
• Where I found it, however...
• This is simply a world where I happen to be a criminal.
• Prakash, here is where I buried Shakaal
• The reports are wrong, I know where I was.
• Funny where I found it though.
• I'm free to work where I please.
• I didn't know she knew where i worked.
• And remember, you kids don't know where i went.
• He doesn't know where i am, but...
• My wife will wonder where i went.
• If you want your name on that list, you know where i am.
• From where i sit, You're the one holding things together around here.
• where i is a natural number and
• No, christopher is manipulating you To get you to tell him where i am.
• I tried to fill in where i could, but children need full-time supervision... which my son had.

Some examples from the web:

• Were I young, I would go abroad.
• That would worry me immensely were I not already consumed with other worries.
• Mine would, master, were I human.
• I should do so myself were I not so often abroad on business.
• Were I rich enough, I'd rebuild Combe Magna to this exact image.
• No, were I at the strappado.
• Were I not king, I would make you pay with your life for what you've said.
• And were I not a very vile man, you wouldn't dare.
• Were I in your situation, I might be willing to consider selling whatever interests I had left here and moving on to a more civilized place.
• Were I you, I wouldn't do such a thing.
• Were I you, I would not do such a rude thing.
• Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion.
• What a shame it would be were I forced to send her back to the death she's just escaped.
• Were I a weaker man, I would have her scent on me still.
• Were I not committed to my moral improvement, I'd be the first to join you.
• Mrs Edalji, were I still a betting man, I'd wager that you were the pianist in this house.
• Were I dead I should think I'd be the first to know.
• Were I younger, I would ask for your hand.
• Were I the sort of magician who entrusts his business to other persons then I would...
• And odds were I'd still be stuck in Brooklyn, which obviously I am.