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Posted by SickTransitGloria on Sat May 5 10:31:55 2001, in response to Where Do You Say You Live?,
posted by Paul Matus on Fri May 4 13:45:18 2001.
As you point out, it depends on the context. In the summer, we lived in Rockaway. When you said you were going to the "city", or, you were asked "Where do you live in the 'city'?" it meant where do you live the other 10 months of the year, which, in my case, was Brooklyn. When in Brooklyn, going to the 'city' meant going to Manhattan. When out of town, I tell people I'm originally from "the city", which, given my accent, they appear to know that I mean "New York". If they respond with a "Yeah? Wheah?" then I tell them Brooklyn. If they respond with an even more excited "Yeah? Wheah?" then I tell them "near Ocean Parkway", since I lived "officially" in what appears to be a transitional area between Midwood, Flatbush, Boro Park, Bensonhurst, Parkville, Ditmas Park, etc.
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