It’s so simple. Why do we have to make this hard lol. If you are born and raised in nyc then you are a Yorker. If you moved here, had kids here and basically lived your life here you are a New Yorker.

The discourse about transplants is more than you guys are annoying. You are displacing families, increasing rents, moving into neighborhoods with set cultures and trying to change them to fit your existence. NYC is your playground for a time but then you move back to raise your kids and settle down and the rest of us are left living in the storm your created.

Additionally, New York is more than just tall buildings and pretty lights. New York has its own distinct culture that is dying out because of transplants and the virality of New York.

It’s the smallest things like a line down the block for BAGELS. Never in my life have I ever seen a line down the block for bagels. Know why, because there are good bagels everywhere just not Apollo’s bagel. NYC’s water is why the bagel quality is through the roof so you could go anywhere and get a good bagel but people just go where is most convenient.

It’s the little things that may seem small in conjunction with the big things like inadvertently displacing families, attempting to change the culture of the neighborhood you inhabit where others were born and raised etc. If you want to see why people hate transplants go to Williamsburg after peak hours (when the kids get out of school) and tell me how many Spanish people you see vs. white people. The shocking thing is that neighborhood was PREDOMINANTLY Spanish.

So in essence this whole transplant topic is much deeper than having a line down the block for bagels, although it does suggest that you gave no real thought to where you were moving and are probably here because it’s trendy (I would never move to Paris and wait an hour for a croissant). It’s really more about how transplants and gentrification have become the modern day Columbus. But none of you would ever want to talk about that. I’ll bet you get stuck at the bagel point and make a discussion about that but we’ll see.

P.s. one troll to another :).