As a Real New Yorker, how many times do you say you are from New York when you go home?

I try to mention it at least twice in every interaction. I have never actually been to NYC, I’ve only seen some pamphlets in the Grey Hound station out here in Ohio.

It looks very gross! And I see all these NYPost articles and they tell me how bad the city is. So, naturally, I remind everyone I talked to how bad NYC is. I even go to r/NYC to engage with them because their brains are so fried from that city decadence. They need a real rural thinker like me to set them straight (because they’re too gay too ever notice that?).

I don't think you need to do it more than several times an hour - but I do recommend correcting someone's pronunciation of Houston St more regularly; even if they don't bring it up.

You aren't a real New Yorker, psh.  I've been living in Brooklyn for 3 years working 15 hours per week as a coffee drink preparation artisan serving pathetic yuppie transplants like you. Sure, I do get a little help from my parents (but only for rent, medical insurance, vacations, going out to eat, concert tickets, hobby purchases, groceries, and sex toys), but I know what the rough side of this city is really like unlike you pampered decadent elitists.  I go to Bushwick at least twice a month.

"DO I LOOK LIKE A FUCKING TOURIST TO YOU BUDDY??!"

I went to Harvard and have a job at Goldman Sachs, in case you were wondering.

Just have this crafted into a heavy 22 karat gold curb link necklace!

Not legit. They sre supposed go say thwy went to a school outside of Boston. Poser

It’s not the how often, it’s the unasked for references that everything is better in NYC. If they mention a food, you have had it better in New York. If they mention a band, you saw them play in New York If they mention colleges, the best are in New York City.

I’ve been a born and raised NYCer since I saw Home Alone 2 in 2003.

I’m looking forward to moving there from Tucson in September (NYU Stern. See you at Goldman in 2.5 years) and I bring up the fact that I’m a real New Yorkster at least twice a conversation.

Is harvard a community college?

I assume that your undocumented babysitter and housekeeper are both underpaid

Just get the #Born&Raised212 neck tat and you’re golden!

New York is ALL Nothing exists outside of it. You ARE New York. You booked New York. You take New York with you. That is all.

As a native, lifelong New Yorker (for two years in my twenties) I try to bring it up at least once a day.

I don’t, I say i’m from “ Brooklyn “

Since you have been to queens, you can say you're a real New Yorker as much as you like.

You don’t say you’re from New York you say you’re from The City

I moved here a year ago and I now start every sentence with “as a New Yorker” Including conversations I have here in New York

You have to mention it at least once per sentence - and when you're not directly mentioning it, fill all the dead space in conversations (you kbow, when other people are making a boring point your Harvard educated mind already figured out. Time is noney for a goldman sachs guy like you) with references to NY annnnd when possible do an affected NY accent. People love that.

I just get in line first everywhere I go and tell people to move!

You’re funny

I say it five times in the mirror and hope the pizza rat doesn’t appear behind me to kill me

I am not even from ny, but my cousins are. I never miss an opportunity to talk about how great ny is to anyone who will, or will not, listen.

A real New Yorker, like me, doesn’t have to say they’re from New York. People can tell by your accent and swagger and attitude and your Yankees cap and Knicks shirt and the way you say fugeddaboudit every time someone asks you a question. You kiddin me? I visited NYC in 91, before Giuliani cleaned up Times Square, so you know I know. I seen it all - I remember there used to be hookers and adult dvd shops.

The lack of Yiddish in your posts betray your NYC creed.

There's only one way to become a real NYer,you have to be born or raised here from youth stages,,, anything else does not qualify coming from a Harlemite born in the early 60's you I didn't read about Malcolm,Ali and King I remember them!!!!!

To the point we play a drinking game.Every time I mention something about New York or my MBA everyone takes a shot.Longest time sober...8 minutes.

Fucking love this sub.

I don’t tell people, I have a strong ass accent, you’ll know

Like lots

Someone once told me 5 years, then you're a NYer. I also heard you're a NYer when you miss the old NY.

I wear “New Yorker” t-shirt and cap, and give people “I love NY” souvenirs. If that is not enough, I start or end my sentences referencing my life in NY. :)

Was your high school Dalton or Horace Mann?

Fake New Yorker! Almost got me until he said Goldman Sachs instead of Goldman Sex!

You from NY? You can have it.

the rich are keto

It depends on how many times you are asked….do you suspect people from New York stand around introducing themselves in hopes of being able to tell them where we live? Plus if your a real New Yorker as soon as you say anything chances is everyone who can hear you knows where your from

You’re not a native New Yorker until you dead ass boof a Tim.

I talk about “the city” and mean NYC, no matter where I am in the country. I also point my thumb behind me over my shoulder when I say “the city” because it’s always that way. Not kidding, I totally do this.

hell, my dad and most of the aunts and uncles moved away from NY 20-40 years ago and still bring it up at every opportunity

What to people out of state. I was born and breed here. I don't need to say it. Just talking people know I am from here. Thats a real NY'er

bro ima 4 years in nyc and just can’t tell it cuz i ll never ever accept a transplant claim “new yorker” even me broo its hard

Every body ranking on NYC but if you can't make here,, you can't make it anywhere,,, it always here for a moment and want call yourself NYer if NY is so bad, what you come here for anyway,,, oh our high salaries and convenience,,, smdh🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Why did the rec sys prompt me this sub? ?

If you live in New York nowadays, you are a New Yorker —with pandemic fueled outflow , crime back to 70’s levels, and mass homelessness drugs, and ‘legal’ illegals the Mayor says will destroy the city, its not what it used to be. —and you can have the title.

Born in NY, 4th generation New Yorker.

The headlines in the Daily News and the Post used to be movie material in the 70’s and 80’s. Its lost a lot of its Character.

See if you can get yourself into one of the remaining tunnels from the revolutionary war. They are the same as they were when they first made them to avoid the brits. Get up early or stay out late, and go to the fish market —also lost a lot of the Characters made for movies when it was the Fulton Street Fish market, and ‘Carmine’ ran the parking.

Still a lot of cool things about NY, you know, but the best is still a ride, The Hamptons. Half of NY moved there during the Pandemic.

Not that you asked, and if you did I’d violate your personal space & remind you its none of your business, but I went to MIT, and own both tech companies I work at. Really, I don’t like to talk about it either.

I always describe myself as a Bridge and Tunnel Motherfucker, which I am

I answer 'Fuggedaboudit!' to literally everything accompanied with hand motions and shoulder raising.

Got thrown in jail twice in White Plains due to this.

Full stop…. Nobody is a real New Yorker unless you born here. 2 years barely qualifies you for New Yorker status. You still a transplant.

There are stages of “New Yorkness” ™️ 😂. Closest thing to a Real New Yorker is being here at least 15 years. I’d say this is about how long it would take to be jaded and you start hating the city but still defend it with your life, then you a real New Yorker. Another thing is your team affiliations. Anything outside of NYC and your New Yorker Card is voided, probation for at least 2 seasons of any sport to reapply.

(I’m only half kidding here) we’d need more information about what you do here in NYC to evaluate your New York cred. Can’t just be hanging out in the nice areas of NYC and call yourself a New Yorker. Need to be in the nitty gritty.

I also went to Harvard and now am a ceo for a major nuclear company in florida. I have never been to NYC but I tell everyone I’m a New Yorker - it’s opened so many opportunities. Then I realized nobody really cares about anyone or anything and stopped doing that.

Who's going to tell this guy that 2 years in NYC DOES NOT make you a "real" New Yorker. You said it yourself that when you're back HOME, which clearly means you're not from here. You're only a real New Yorker when you're born and raised here. If you didn't have a green metro card growing up, we don't claim you.

Sincerely,

An actual native, born and raised x

I know this is a cj, but real talk while traveling outside of America I always say I’m from NYC. I got a lot better responses saying I was from NYC then saying I was from America.

Simultaneous jerk and unjerk:

If you’re originally from anywhere else in the US that’s not the boroughs you can never be a New Yorker, them’s just facts.

Coming from another country gets you a pass and you become a New Yorker when you arrive here because that’s what it’s all about!

Traditionally, Staten Island doesn't count

You're far from a real New Yorker.

No a New Yorker is someone born , raised , educated , worked in and resides in the state of New York .

Now if you do that for over 58 years in the 5 boroughs , like myself , you are SPECIAL !

You're not, you're still just a transplant. Asking this question is a clear sign. Stop trying to be something you're not and accept who you really are, an asshole

youre not a new yorker. only people born here are new yorkers

If the home you're going to is anywhere but the 5 boroughs, you aren't a real New Yorker.

You’re not from New York. You live there. You’re from Maine 🤷‍♂️

I cannot tell if this post is a joke or not. I really hope it is.

2 years is not a real NYer🙄

And, yes, Long Island City is a neighborhood in Queens.