If You Could Only Ski in One NWS CWA...

[Zykamps]

Around here its generations... 15 years and we are not considered local. People are mostly nice and helpful you're just not in or have a say in things.

 

[x10003q]

I always preferred “born and raised”. I think the unwritten rule is 10 years before you’re considered a local.

After 10 years you are a regular. I think only your kids can be considered locals and only if they attend school in the location.

 

[Harvey]

The town I moved from, 2 years ago, I lived there for 30 years, not enough to be considered fully local. You had to have a certain last name.

One neighbor lady on our street who passed (she was 96), I think her grandfather built the house she was in. She was very cool. I would walk to work, and if she was on the porch as I went buy in the afternoon, she would invite me up for a gin and tonic.

 

[Ripitz]

I joke with my friends in Keene about this all the time. They are coming up on 10 years there. It was very difficult for them at first. Being accepted is no easy task, it is something that must be earned. They are business owners and contribute immensely to the community. To visitors they are considered locals but to the people that have always lived there they will always be newcomers.

 

[marcski]

I have a friend who grew up one town over from where he lives now upstate and has lived in his current town for about 25 years and he claims he will never be accepted as a local in his current town.

 

[tirolski]

Local rivalries exist everywhere.
In Tirol they speak different dialects in the different valleys.
In England ya can tell where folks are from by their accents.
Doesn’t make em bad people.
Buying food grown locally is better for ya and yer neighborhood.

 

[Campgottagopee]

I always preferred “born and raised”

My grandfather was born in a little cabin on Edwards Hill Rd in Bakers Mills NY. He lived his entire life on that road, in 2 different houses that he built. Talk about born and raised.

 

[MarzNC]

I always preferred “born and raised”. I think the unwritten rule is 10 years before you’re considered a local.

That's how it was when I moved from NYC to Chapel Hill, NC in the early 1970s. That was just as the migration to the Sun Belt, including the Triangle, was starting in earnest. My mother was ahead of the folks from the northeast who decided central NC was a great place to be retired. There are four seasons, mountains or beach a few hours drive away, and no snow to shovel. As a retiree you just wait a few days until it melts.

 

[sibhusky]

The kicker is the majority of Whitefish folks weren't born here at this point. The true locals took the money and ran.

 

[Harvey]

The kicker is the majority of Whitefish folks weren't born here at this point. The true locals took the money and ran.

Haha where did they go?

I guess if you are cashing in on the popularity your can't really complain about the new people.