Who is a New Yorker? (Albany, Maine: for rent, loft, hotel)
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I think being raised in NYC (spending your formative years) is what makes someone a New Yorker. That is, you are raised with a NY state of mind, and it is the only thing you know. If later on, you move elsewhere, I think you are still a New Yorker.
Transplants to me, unless they have spend many many years here, are not New Yorkers.
Transplants that have lived in NYC, especially the outer boroughs for more than 10 years are VERY much
New Yorkers.
They may, but they do not have the essence of the NY lifestyle Natives have. If you've never attended school (excludes college), first and foremost, you do not have that NYC student experience. It's important for people to understand this because our education is pretty much seen as different from other states'. Most of the transplants I've met here immediately say how NYC schools are bad without even experiencing it.
um no its the truth. a dominican, haitian, jamaican, puerto rican , russian , chinese, etc will always be more of a real new yorker then a transplant from Idaho, or wyoming, or ohio.
immigrants is what forms nyc, and always has, not transplants.
um no its the truth. a dominican, haitian, jamaican, puerto rican , russian , chinese, etc will always be more of a real new yorker then a transplant from Idaho, or wyoming, or ohio.
immigrants is what forms nyc, and always has, not transplants.
They're not real NYers though, especially today's new crop of immigrants. They don't identify with America, only hangout with each other and now with cheap international long distance, emails, international texting, skype, they can stay in touch with the "old country" practically everyday forever if they want to.
You have to be RAISED here from a child (in my opinion) to "understand" what it's really like to LIVE here.
Then again, so many things have changed from when I was a kid that I doubt it means much anymore. When you have an entire borough now catering to the super rich and people who actually believed Sex and the City was real (LOL), then the dynamics change.
There's no way on God's green earth, I would spend $2,000 to live in 400 sq ft studio apartment with a tiny bathroom, tiny closets and a half-kitchen or "kitchenette" type deal. I don't think any REAL NYers would do that, except rich foreigners and transplants.
a New Yorker is someone who is born and rasied here. Also i don't know i can agree with if you leave your former new yorker, cuz no matter what you are always gunna have that NY mentallity, and that NY swagger. Also i will accept saying someone is new yorker if they moved to NY and has lived for a decent amount of time like for example having children there and having them rasied there.
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