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Everyone stop fretting and grow a pair. Most transplants hang around for just a couple of years and then go back to where they came from. NYC weeds out the weak. It always has.
I know we just love to diss transplants on this board. But my question is, who do you guys categorize as a transplant? Anyone who hasn't lived in NYC their whole life? Because I've seen plenty of threads where people who have been in the city 8, 9, 10 years are called out for being transplants. That's potentially 1/8 of their life! I think that qualifies them as NYers. What about someone like me? Born in NYC, raised here as a kid but spent my HS years out of the city and then moved back around 8 years ago. Does that make me a transplant since I left as a kid and moved back as a young adult? What if I did that and moved to an affordable area near my family when I returned? What if I moved back and moved in with roommates in Williamsburg? Does that make me more or less of a transplant? (I'm only using myself as a reference to show how completely crazy I think the whole concept of a transplant is).
Talk.
anyone who moves to NY because it's the in thing to do, or because they think it's a liberal (what ever their type) city.
I've been here 25 years but I still consider myself a "transplant"compared to the guys I work with that grew up here. They have that genuine "hey youse guys" city thing going on, and I never will.
Moved here in 2001 for university (DC born/MD raised), and with the exception of 04-06, have lived here every year since. I'm one of those people with a dime-a-dozen tale of NYC feeling like "home" in a way no other place ever has.
First visited in middle school, and I still remember vividly something inside me just "clicking" the moment the bus rounded the bend coming off 495, heading into the Lincoln Tunnel, and seeing the skyline for the first time; that was it for me. I had never felt that way about my actual home state, and twenty years later I still feel exactly the same.
For all the massive changes in my life since then, my love for this city has remained constant. This place still thrills, frustrates, motivates, illuminates, and challenges me. I still thrive on the energy, still catch myself smiling that I'm here, still get excited when I enter neighborhoods that I've never visited before, regardless of the borough. And I still feel utterly at home here.
That's what makes me a New Yorker. I couldn't give less of a damn what anyone else feels about me, a "transplant", calling myself that. It has never mattered to me, and it never will. This is my city, and I'm so glad to be here.
"NY is a state of mind." Once a New Yorker, always a New Yorker. Everybody. Here's the proablem -- many of youse hot and cold mamalucas are the first to GTFO when the going gets tough. When the ****s hits the fan, let's see who "starts." If you stick around -- you ain't no convert. That's the thing.
Second thing -- if your skin is like paper, you got no business staying in New York. And one more thing -- fuhgetaboutit...
Moved here in 2001 for university (DC born/MD raised), and with the exception of 04-06, have lived here every year since. I'm one of those people with a dime-a-dozen tale of NYC feeling like "home" in a way no other place ever has.
First visited in middle school, and I still remember vividly something inside me just "clicking" the moment the bus rounded the bend coming off 495, heading into the Lincoln Tunnel, and seeing the skyline for the first time; that was it for me. I had never felt that way about my actual home state, and twenty years later I still feel exactly the same.
For all the massive changes in my life since then, my love for this city has remained constant. This place still thrills, frustrates, motivates, illuminates, and challenges me. I still thrive on the energy, still catch myself smiling that I'm here, still get excited when I enter neighborhoods that I've never visited before, regardless of the borough. And I still feel utterly at home here.
That's what makes me a New Yorker. I couldn't give less of a damn what anyone else feels about me, a "transplant", calling myself that. It has never mattered to me, and it never will. This is my city, and I'm so glad to be here.
A New Yorker if I ever heard one... Doesn't give a crap about what others think about him and appreciates this city for what it is... Like I said before, if you have to ask, you probably aren't...
^ i wonder if that person loves dc as much as nyc or still considers him or her self still a washingtonian. i guess you are a new yorker if you've been in ny most of your life but you should always claim where you came from.
^ i wonder if that person loves dc as much as nyc or still considers him or her self still a washingtonian. i guess you are a new yorker if you've been in ny most of your life but you should always claim where you came from.
I was born in DC, and raised in MD. So technically I would be considered a Marylander, not a Washingtonian.
No, I do not love MD/DC metro area anywhere near as much as I love NYC. I no longer consider that area home. I barely considered it home, or felt any great affinity for it, even when I was growing up as a child. I never felt at "home" until I visited NYC. That is still the case today.
No, grown folks should "claim" whatever, and wherever, they so choose to. I will tell anybody where I was born and raised, but if they ask me where my home is, it's New York City.
Good point. In my eyes, someone from Yonkers is more of a New Yorker than someone that moves in from Ohio and now lives in Manhattan (and claims to be a hardcore New Yorker lol).
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Originally Posted by john_starks
not from the tri-state araa, pretty simple concept
if you never grew up listening to that sh.itty nyc local news
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A New Yorker if I ever heard one... Doesn't give a crap about what others think about him and appreciates this city for what it is... Like I said before, if you have to ask, you probably aren't...
