…you say "the city" and expect everyone to know that this means Manhattan.
..when you're standing in a packed subway car with 200 hundred other people and everyone manages to avoid looking at each other
…you can pick out the tourists when they turn their heads to the "ladies and gentlemen this is an important announcement from the MTA" message
…when you're away from home, you miss "real" pizza and bagels.
…you can ignore homeless people without feeling too bad
…you can walk through "The City" for hours and not get tired but once your out of NYC and walk for 10 minutes you feel exhausted.
…rather than waiting safely on the sidewalk to cross the street, you wait inches away from speeding traffic waiting to cut through it.
…you have jaywalked in front of a cop. More than once. And they didn't care.
...you're 35 years old and don't have a driver's license.
...you ride in a subway car with no air conditioning, just because there are seats available.
... you are going home from work by subway and you know exactly where on the platform the doors will open and leave you right in front of the stairways at your home station.
...you cringe at hearing people pronounce Houston St. like the city in Texas
...you start thinking that a 500 square foot apartment is large.
...you see Harrison Ford walking down the street and nobody seemed to care to look at him.
...you know who Dr. Zizmor is.
...you have at least 50 menus in your apartment, two thirds of which you have neither ordered from nor even heard of.
...you wouldn't dream of going to Times Square on New Year's Eve.
...you freak out because a stranger says hello.
...someone bumps into you, and you check for your wallet.
...you pay no attention to the nice lady walking down the road having a perfectly normal conversation with herself.
...you understand that the plural form of you is youse.
...Nothing is north or south, it's uptown or downtown.
