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People who create multiple handles to obsess over this are pretty much the only ones who care.
And the ones who like to label themselves as new yorkers, but in fact they are not.. they are just "domestic immgrants". They'll go back where they are from once they realized they can afford the rent at the hip place they are living at.
Newsflash, the only people that care about "native" "transplant" etc are city-data posters.
No one gives an eff in real life.
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Originally Posted by JoeCollege
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People who create multiple handles to obsess over this are pretty much the only ones who care.
I actually care. For me it's the attitude and the accent. I am more likely to want to be friends or patronize your business if you're from here..and if you have a foreign "non NYC" accent I am more likely to be rude to you honestly. I don't really like non-New Yorkers as people cause of what they've done to Manhattan, Brooklyn etc.
The label does stand for being tough, having an accent, being of a certain group of ethnicities.
I actually care. For me it's the attitude and the accent. I am more likely to want to be friends or patronize your business if you're from here..and if you have a foreign "non NYC" accent I am more likely to be rude to you honestly. I don't really like non-New Yorkers as people cause of what they've done to Manhattan, Brooklyn etc.
The label does stand for being tough, having an accent, being of a certain group of ethnicities.
LOL most stores and small businesses are owned by immigrants. So where do you shop? What has the small business person done to NY except try to improve it. Just by them investing their money here means they want NY to succeed. Everyone's Great-great-grandparents had an accent.
LOL most stores and small businesses are owned by immigrants. So where do you shop? What has the small business person done to NY except try to improve it. Just by them investing their money here means they want NY to succeed. Everyone's Great-great-grandparents had an accent.
I live on Staten Island, the vast majority of stores I shop at are owned by italian New Yorker white guys except for the Chinese restaurant. Immigrants are different IMO than people from Iowa who open up some crappy restaurant on Bedford Avenue or something. I have no issue with foreign immigrants but I just don't get along with gentrifier transplants. It's also fun to on the "Tony Soprano" accent on a crowded train and go up to an obvious transplant hipster girl and say "yo gimme your effin seat" and watch them run like a roach.
I don't give a flying _ if you consider me a New Yorker or not. I've lived here longer than anywhere else in my life (12 years out of 42) and do consider myself a New Yorker now, I guess, not that it matters to me or anyone else I've ever met.
Fran Lebowitz not a New Yorker? Laughable. But if you really care about this it makes me think you are an insular, bubble-living, idiot. Maybe that is what a "real" New Yorker is? Just like the "hicks" down south that won't ever accept anyone as a southerner who was born outside of Dixie no matter how long they live there.
Having been forced to live in many places as a youth, and then voluntarily living quite a few on my own as an adult, I think I have a broader mind and don't care where someone is from. A lot of natives from a lot of places just never accept others outside of their bubble, and I'm fine with that. I wouldn't want to be around them anyway.
Does Michael Jordan consider himself a New Yorker or a North Carolinian and or the late Tupac of death row records, does he consider himself a New Yorker or a Los angelenos?
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