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My mother and grandmother were both born here, but I wasn't born or raised here. However, I live here now, and have for more than 10 years. Does that make me a third generation New Yorker? Not sure.
Some people on this board love to throw around the word "transplant" in a disparaging manner when it comes to people like me moving from another US city to live in "their" city. So, I'm either in that very special category of 3rd generation New Yorker or I'm a hated transplant. Go figure.
You should read my definition of actual "transplant" on another thread - cannot even recall which one ...
But yesterday, day before. I think it was the woman asking for transplant stories.
Now my daughter is the next line of new yorker....so she's definitely further down the line on both my mother's side of my family and my father's side of my family. My daughter's 4th generation of new yorker on my father's father side and 5th generation on my mother's father side and who knows how many generations on my mother's mother side since her mother's mothers mothers family was here since before 1850.
My kids may be 3rd generation NYers on their father's side. He was born here, and his parents lived here since they were teenagers (his mother from the south and his father from another country). Or maybe that makes them second generation? I know a lot of people who would be 3rd generation with a detour to the suburbs -- their family lived here but left during the great suburban migration--and the "kids" returned to NYC as adults.
You should read my definition of actual "transplant" on another thread - cannot even recall which one ...
But yesterday, day before. I think it was the woman asking for transplant stories.
I was not referring to you or your personal definition; I was referring to the way the term is thrown around on the forum. The fact that you have made up your own personal definition of the term has no bearing on what I said.
The fact that you have made up your own personal definition of the term has no bearing on what I said.
If Harlem said it, it's gospel. Get on board or prepare to be labeled stupid from now on.
I was actually born in NC, but only because my father took a detour to serve our country. I mostly grew up on the same block he spent his whole childhood on, and my grandfather and great grandfather grew up about a mile away from that block.
I was not referring to you or your personal definition; I was referring to the way the term is thrown around on the forum. The fact that you have made up your own personal definition of the term has no bearing on what I said.
Besides both of us, probably half the people we know have been here for four or five generations (?).
Many of our friends (and definitely acquaintances) tend to be foreign nationals, met professionally or abroad.
No idea what the "average" might be.
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