1. Your coworker has 8 body piercings and none are visible.
2. You make over $300,000 and still can't afford a house.
3. You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation in English.
4. Your child's 3rd-grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring, and is named Breeze.
5. You can't remember...is pot illegal?
6. You've been to a baby shower that has two mothers and a sperm
donor.
7. You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are
grown, and you can taste the difference between Sumatran and Ethiopian.
8. You know which restaurant serves the freshest arugula.
9. You can't remember...is pot illegal?
10. A really great parking space can totally move you to tears.
11. A low speed police pursuit will interrupt ANY TV broadcast.
12. Gas costs $1.00 per gallon more than anywhere else in the U.S.
13. A man gets on the bus in full leather regalia and crotchless chaps. You don't even notice.
14. Unlike back home, the guy at 8:30am at Starbucks wearing the
baseball cap and sunglasses who looks like George Clooney really IS George Clooney.
15. Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment.
16. Your hairdresser is straight, your plumber is gay, the woman who
delivers your mail is into S &M, and your Mary Kay rep is a guy in drag.
17. You can't remember...is pot illegal?
18. Its barely sprinkling rain and there's a report on every news station: "STORM WATCH 2004."
19. You have to leave the big company meeting early because Billy Blanks himself is teaching the 4:00pm Tae Bo class.
20. You pass an elementary school playground and the children are all
busy with their cells or pagers.
21. It's barely sprinkling rain outside, so you leave for work an hour early to avoid all the weather-related accidents.
22. Hey!!!! Is Pot Illegal????
23. Both you AND your dog have therapists.
24. The Terminator is your governor.
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1 You think Central Park is "nature."
2 You're paying $1,200 for a studio the size of a walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal."
3 You've been to New Jersey twice and got hopelessly lost both times.
4 You pay more each month to park your car than most people in the U.S. pay in rent.
5 You go to dinner at 9 and head out to the clubs when most Americans are heading to bed.
6 You have 27 different menus next to your telephone.
7 Going to Brooklyn is considered a "road trip."
8 America west of the Hudson is still theoretical to you.
9 You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.
10 You take a taxi to get to your health club to exercise.
11 Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.
12 $50 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.
13 Your doorman is Russian, your grocer is Korean, your deli man is Israeli, your building super is Italian, your laundry guy is Chinese, your favorite bartender is Irish, your favorite diner owner is Greek, the watch seller on your corner is Senegalese, your last cabbie was Pakistani, your newsstand guy is Indian and your favorite falafel guy is Egyptian.
14 You say "the city" and expect everyone to know that it means Manhattan.
15 You secretly envy cabbies for their driving skills.
16 You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building.
17 You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park at 3:30 on the Friday before a long weekend, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
18 Hookers and the homeless are invisible.
19 The subway makes sense.
20 The subway should never be called anything prissy, like the Metro.
21 You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
22 You think $7.00 to cross a bridge is a fair price.
23 You've considered stabbing someone just for saying "The Big Apple."
24 Your door has more than three locks.
25 You go to a hockey game for the fighting. In the stands. To participate.
26 Your favorite movie has DeNiro in it.
27 The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.
28 You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
29 You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a yard. You complain about having to mow it.
30 You are a skee-ball juggernaut.
31 You consider Westchester "Upstate."
32 You cried the day Mayor Ed Koch took over for Judge Wapner.
33 You run when you see a flashing "Do Not Walk" sign at the intersection
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