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A:When youre trawling the LI Boards in search or compelling conversation.
We had set up a containment area for homesick Tarnation drifters but they were too busy searching for validation about that peach of a deal they got in Mayberry.
You tell everyone back home how great your new neighbors are, but the only people you talk to are the other New York ex-pats.
You have 4,000 posts on C-D, but you have never once posted in your new hometown's forum.
A Hispanic family bought your old house on LI, and they make way more money than you.
You start talking in a ridiculous Brooklyn accent that you never had before, and when people talk about crime/theater/art/celebrities/food/fighting someone/etc. you preface your comments with "You don't have to tell me, I'M FROM NEW YORK!"
You "threatened" to move off Long Island for 10 years, but only pulled the trigger because you finally realized no one would miss you.
Whatever year your 18th birthday fell on, THAT was when Long Island "used to be a great place to live".
If your new neighbors get sick of you, they can just hook their home up to the back of a pickup and drive away!
According to the US Census Bureau, gun sales in your new county outpace deodorant sales by a 2:1 margin.
The biggest major sports franchise in your new market is a high school football team.
Your kids are now addicted to meth instead of prescription painkillers.
You get a sitter to spend romantic evenings out at The Olive Garden.
Your old neighbors used to put annoying "My Child is an Honor Student at...." stickers on their bumpers. Your new neighbors tie dead animals to them.
You're not sure how to react when people tell you how proud they are that their ancestors fought for the Confederacy.
People think you're ostentatious because you shop at Old Navy.
Natives are planning on moving out cuz of all the Yankee carpetbaggers who are moving in.
You tell everyone back home how great your new neighbors are, but the only people you talk to are the other New York ex-pats.
You have 4,000 posts on C-D, but you have never once posted in your new hometown's forum.
A Hispanic family bought your old house on LI, and they make way more money than you.
You start talking in a ridiculous Brooklyn accent that you never had before, and when people talk about crime/theater/art/celebrities/food/fighting someone/etc. you preface your comments with "You don't have to tell me, I'M FROM NEW YORK!"
You "threatened" to move off Long Island for 10 years, but only pulled the trigger because you finally realized no one would miss you.
Whatever year your 18th birthday fell on, THAT was when Long Island "used to be a great place to live".
If your new neighbors get sick of you, they can just hook their home up to the back of a pickup and drive away!
According to the US Census Bureau, gun sales in your new county outpace deodorant sales by a 2:1 margin.
The biggest major sports franchise in your new market is a high school football team.
Your kids are now addicted to meth instead of prescription painkillers.
You get a sitter to spend romantic evenings out at The Olive Garden.
Your old neighbors used to put annoying "My Child is an Honor Student at...." stickers on their bumpers. Your new neighbors tie dead animals to them.
You're not sure how to react when people tell you how proud they are that their ancestors fought for the Confederacy.
People think you're ostentatious because you shop at Old Navy.
Natives are planning on moving out cuz of all the Yankee carpetbaggers who are moving in.
The good news: Your new hometown has absolutely no heroin or cocaine dealers. The bad news: Your druggie kids discover the meth lab down the block and medicaid recipients who make extra money selling their prescription painkilllers and tranquilizers.
The good news: You sell your home on LI in a 98% white neighborhood and have your dream house built from the ground up in a brand new development. The bad news: You are alarmed to notice a lot of black and hispanic families in your new development. Once you realize they aren't going to rob or assault you, you also realize they make a lot more money than you do.
You find a hilarious video on YouTube that you're eager to share, but are disappointed to find that none of your new friends own or know how to operate a computer.
At least one of the local schools is named after Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee.
You are disgusted to learn that most of your new neighbors are talking about a farm animal when they reminisce about "their highschool sweetheart".
In an effort to "keep up with the Joneses", you buy a dilapidated pickup truck to keep in your yard, and invite friends over to shoot at it.
You now know what one of the following tastes like: squirrel, possum, rattlesnake or alligator.
You think dirty children in nothing but overalls are quaint, not poor.
When people back on LI chide you about rednecks, you cite "the rich tapestry of Southern Gothic literature", though you can only name "the True Blood books" as an example.
You're not sure which is bigger (physically) in your town, the church or the Wal-Mart.
You're not sure which is bigger (figuratively) in your town, the church or the Wal-Mart.
You have a great, though incredibly vague and exaggerated, story from your youth to tell in case anyone ever asks you about the Mafia. They never do, although you're surprised how often you're asked "if there's really that many Jews in New Yark?"
You still don't think Jeff Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy are funny, and you now have a profound hatred of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
When people solemnly say "can you believe it's been almost ten years?" they're not talking about 9/11, they're talking about the day Dale Earnhardt died.
If I'm any indication of being from part of the best education system possible.......we are all doomed
It's the Law of Large Numbers, BigM. Having the best School system increases the chance of success for the majority. For every crap out, we hope to yield at least a few Natural Winners like x4
vvvvv .. I gotta give Seanx4 credit on the COPS one #11 too.
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Originally Posted by sean sean sean sean
You find a hilarious video on YouTube that you're eager to share, but are disappointed to find that none of your new friends own or know how to operate a computer.
At least one of the local schools is named after Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee.
You are disgusted to learn that most of your new neighbors are talking about a farm animal when they reminisce about "their highschool sweetheart".
In an effort to "keep up with the Joneses", you buy a dilapidated pickup truck to keep in your yard, and invite friends over to shoot at it.
You now know what one of the following tastes like: squirrel, possum, rattlesnake or alligator.
You think dirty children in nothing but overalls are quaint, not poor.
When people back on LI chide you about rednecks, you cite "the rich tapestry of Southern Gothic literature", though you can only name "the True Blood books" as an example.
You're not sure which is bigger (physically) in your town, the church or the Wal-Mart.
You're not sure which is bigger (figuratively) in your town, the church or the Wal-Mart.
You have a great, though incredibly vague and exaggerated, story from your youth to tell in case anyone ever asks you about the Mafia. They never do, although you're surprised how often you're asked "if there's really that many Jews in New Yark?"
You still don't think Jeff Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy are funny, and you now have a profound hatred of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
When people solemnly say "can you believe it's been almost ten years?" they're not talking about 9/11, they're talking about the day Dale Earnhardt died.
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Originally Posted by sean sean sean sean
You tell everyone back home how great your new neighbors are, but the only people you talk to are the other New York ex-pats.
You have 4,000 posts on C-D, but you have never once posted in your new hometown's forum.
A Hispanic family bought your old house on LI, and they make way more money than you.
You start talking in a ridiculous Brooklyn accent that you never had before, and when people talk about crime/theater/art/celebrities/food/fighting someone/etc. you preface your comments with "You don't have to tell me, I'M FROM NEW YORK!"
You "threatened" to move off Long Island for 10 years, but only pulled the trigger because you finally realized no one would miss you.
Whatever year your 18th birthday fell on, THAT was when Long Island "used to be a great place to live".
If your new neighbors get sick of you, they can just hook their home up to the back of a pickup and drive away!
According to the US Census Bureau, gun sales in your new county outpace deodorant sales by a 2:1 margin.
The biggest major sports franchise in your new market is a high school football team.
Your kids are now addicted to meth instead of prescription painkillers.
You get a sitter to spend romantic evenings out at The Olive Garden.
Your old neighbors used to put annoying "My Child is an Honor Student at...." stickers on their bumpers. Your new neighbors tie dead animals to them.
You're not sure how to react when people tell you how proud they are that their ancestors fought for the Confederacy.
People think you're ostentatious because you shop at Old Navy.
Natives are planning on moving out cuz of all the Yankee carpetbaggers who are moving in.
To be fair: how long do you think your slice of heaven will be one if relocated Yankees keep telling their friends back home about it?
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Originally Posted by BigMike50
You don't complain on web boards how much police officers and teachers make..everyday
You don't complain about police officers and teachers pensions...every day
You don't complain that your "county" has become the 6th boro..everyday
You don't complain about TAXES on a daily basis
You don't complain that Illegal aliens , Illegal apartments are ruining your neighborhoods.
Your not afraid or too lazy to cut open a frog.
When every house is heated with oil and you complain how much it cost.
You look in your mailbox and say thank God nothing in there says "LIPA"
When seethroughNY is not your favorite website.
When car insurance is 300 a year.
When you gave the school system 70% of your taxes and justify it by saying .." They're da best"
When you don't have to sit in traffic all day.
When you don't have to worry about gangs and drugs spreading out all over the place.
When you think Rocky Point is the Jewel of the Island.
You could go on forever
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