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Everyone is from NYC because wasn't that the only port of entry into the US over the past century? Didn't everyone's grandparents/great grandparents sail into Ellis Island when migrating into this country? Once they got to Ellis Island then they were free to go wherever they wanted too, lots stayed in the NYC area and lots decided to move elsewhere. I wonder if most southern natives great grandparents sailed into Ellis Island as well?
Not everyone is from NYC. Even though Ellis Island was a major point of immigration for a relatively small period of time, it was far from the only port of entry and nowhere near the ONLY place people could enter the US.
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I've made this suggestion in other threads. If you are from the NYC metro & think that you want to move to the Charlotte area because it's cheaper, remember that there is a different life-style.
Plan a long weekend to South Jersey. I'll even give a list of locations. Go into shops. You will almost certainly be approached & people will strike up a conversation. If this leaves you unsettled, go back to the drawing board. If this doesn't bother you, then come to NC & check it out in person.
Everyone is from NYC because wasn't that the only port of entry into the US over the past century? Didn't everyone's grandparents/great grandparents sail into Ellis Island when migrating into this country? Once they got to Ellis Island then they were free to go wherever they wanted too, lots stayed in the NYC area and lots decided to move elsewhere. I wonder if most southern natives great grandparents sailed into Ellis Island as well?
That doesn't make you "from" NYC if your g-g-g-grandparents came through there (plus, not everyone's did. Are you not familiar with Sir Walter Raleigh, Jamestown, etc? Most in NC can probably trace back to there, with "roots" in America much longer than the Italian/Irish folks who came through NYC in the 1800s. And African-Americans, of course, trace back to slave ships.). They were from somewhere else before that, so why not say that place?
You are "from" where you were born or where you spent most of your growing up. Not wherever your g-g-g-g-g-g-grandparents were from--otherwise we'd all be from East Africa somewhere.
"Everyone is from NYC", indeed...
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