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To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once you have it, it doesn't go away, and everywhere else in the world feels like it is in slow motion.

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

When you move to New York, especially, you feel like you need to be something.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.