Heh - *thank* you! I'd been hoping someone would bring up this element for a little mini-discussion. Because, honestly, what the whole question brought up for me was how my parents said that they and their friends would endlessly discuss who really was or was not a Moskvitch/ka - a resident of Moscow. Like, did you have to be born there? Living there for at least 1, 2, 5, 10 years? Did the outskirts count? Etc., etc.
Because, frankly, I could move to Timbuktu tomorrow and I think I'd still think of myself as a New Yorker. But I wasn't born here, and I grew up as part of the bridge'n'tunnel crowd, so ... false affiliation? Only true since coming to Columbia?
It's an interesting point, re: is NY just a place, or a state of mind, or both, or ...?
Also, for a better analogy, you might ask when the 60's began, given the two schools of thought on dating the decades. :)
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Date: 2006-06-07 08:11 pm (UTC)Because, frankly, I could move to Timbuktu tomorrow and I think I'd still think of myself as a New Yorker. But I wasn't born here, and I grew up as part of the bridge'n'tunnel crowd, so ... false affiliation? Only true since coming to Columbia?
It's an interesting point, re: is NY just a place, or a state of mind, or both, or ...?
Also, for a better analogy, you might ask when the 60's began, given the two schools of thought on dating the decades. :)