-You say "The City" and expect everyone to know that this means Manhattan.
-You've never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building.
-You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columus Circle to Battery Park at 3:30 on the Friday before a long weekend but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
-Hookers and the homeless are invisible to you.
-The Subway Map makes sense.
-You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
-Your door has more than two locks.
-The most frequently part used of your car is the horn.
-You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
-You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a yard.
-You consider Westchester "Upstate".
-You cried the day Ed Koch took over for Judge Wapner.
-You walk faster than some people run.
-You see nothing odd about the speed of an auctioneer's speaking.
-You're paying $1,200 for a studio the size of a walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal".
-You've been to New Jersey twice and got lost both times.
-You pay more each month to insure your car than most people in the U.S. pay in rent.
-You haven't seen more than twelve stars in the night sky since you went away to camp as a kid.
-You go to dinner at 9 pm and head out to the clubs when most americans are heading to bed.
-When foreigners ask directions, you are nice to them. When other New Yorkers ask directions, you ignore them.
-You pay $5 without blinking for a beer that cost the bar 28 cents.
-You take fashion seriously.
-When you pass a celebrity on the street you don't turn into pieces.
-You have 27 different menus next to your telephone.
-America west of the Hudson is still theoretical to you.
-You've stopped thinking about how many hands touched the subway pole.
-You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.
-You haven't cooked a meal since helping Mom last Thanksgiving.
-You take a taxi to get to your health club to exercise.
-Your idea of "personal space" is no one actually breathing on you.
-$50 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.
-You have a minimum of five "worst cab ride ever" stories.
-You've mentally blocked out all thoughts of the city's air quality and what it's doing to your lungs.
-You live and work in a building with a larger population than some american towns.



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