I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.
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I grew up in Brooklyn.
I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.
I grew up in New York.
My mom lives in New York still in the home that I grew up in.
On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.
I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
I speak with a Northern Irish accent with a tinge of New York. My wife has a bit of a Boston accent; my oldest daughter talks with a Denver accent, and my youngest has a true blue Aussie accent. It's complicated.
I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.
I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.