Wtf does transplant mean in this context?
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Non-native New Yorkers. Native New Yorkers can be pretty snobbish about this. I lived there for 28 years (long enough to develop an accent), but whenever a native New Yorker found out that I wasn’t born there, I’d get that pause in conversation and a sad “oh…”
Perhaps it’s a compliment that most native New Yorkers just assumed I was also a native. Although I don’t know what sort of compliment that is.
I thought this was about organs at first and lost it at "We have such a bad rep. We've taken so much."
More organs means more human
New Yorkers when they're presented with the idea that New York isn't the center of the universe.
I think if you were there for the disaster in 01, you're in the club.
NYC superiority complex rubbed off on her pretty hard.
What is a transplant? a Migrant?
I bring good vibes, good food and taxes
Sort of. It is inclusive of American citizens too. So, some gal from North Dakota would count.
Ah where I'm from we call this semi-gratuon
Where you migrate in your own country.
In America, we call it "moving."
Only in places where they get high on their own supply do they call it "transplanting."
In my experience, transplanting within the US has more to do with a significant shift in culture/region. You're a transplant if you move from Maine to Texas. You just moved if you relocated from Maine to New Hampshire.
In my experience it also depends on how proud/snobby about the topic the place is in question. For example in Colorado, you're either a native or a transplant. There is no "moving". If you weren't born here, you're a transplant.
Yeah there's also some weird relationships. Progressive midwesterners to the pnw? Cool let me introduce you to my friends from your old city. Conservative Californians to the midwest/south? Fucking Californian transplants.
It's partly just if the region thinks highly of the culture where you're from and if they think yall have good reason to come there.
For real. I moved to the opposite coast after college and a decade of calling it home, I happened to go on a few dates with a lovely person that I later found out was housemates with someone I dated in middle school.
And that's only one instance of dozens in my decades away from that small town of my youth.
WTF, US.
I don't even pay taxes :( but I'm not a transplant anyway. I think. What's a transplant? Not a native speaker is what I definitely am and all I can think of is organ donations.
I grew up in Florida and 4 years ago I moved my whole life to Oklahoma, hundreds of miles from anyone I knew (aside from my wife who’s a local). That means I’m a transplant.
I hope you volunteer. /s
They volunteered to move from one shit hole state to another.
Does donating pads and tampons to the library’s stock of free supplies for the women in my area count? Raising a toddler and working full time leaves me little time or energy for direct action haha.
I want to say yes but I've lived in Oklahoma long enough to know that it doesn't count here. It helps women, and they don't really count in Ok. /s
I would say yes, it does. Anything that helps the community.
Oh I see, thank you. Isn't that a very normal thing for US Americans? I'm under the impression that it's very common for people there to move every few years (granted, this impression is influenced by entertainment media).
Moving to a new house or apartment is quite common in NA, but moving across the country is a different situation.
Road movies have lied to me.
I also was raised on the roadtrip dreams. Hell, I've based most of my travel adventures on those ideals, and have in fact moved "every couple of years", but it's not "normal", nor as easy as it seems in the movies, NGL.
After a while, it gets pretty old, really. Especially when the matrix runs outta NPCs and you begin to see surreal overlaps. That one's really fun IRL. 😶
I wouldn’t say it’s “very normal” but it’s certainly not exceedingly rare. I can only speak from my experience living in areas of about 200k or fewer residents but I’ve always known a handful of transplants anywhere I’ve lived.
It isn't uncommon, but the majority of people live in or near the town/city they grew up in. I currently live over 1000 miles (1600km) from where I grew up. https://www.northamerican.com/infographics/where-they-grew-up
Kinda? It's both rare enough most people you grew up around probably stayed in the same area unless your family is really spread out but also common enough to make it feel like a failure if you didn't get to experience the country and live all over.
I moved from a smaller area I grew up in to a big city in the same sucky state after college and I was the one who got out. But I was surrounded by people who worked their way there from the parts of the country that were deeply impoverished and also people who'd gone all over, lived on the coasts, and seen places and done things while where I grew up was just a day trip away.
Mmmm... Pretty sure OK is just N.FL. 🤷🏼♂️
This is a trans plant
You silly goose.
You can't make somebody part of a community if they don't care about the idea of community. It feels like this woman is just projecting her insecurities. ie. "I do all of the volunteer work that I I'm trying to browbeat others into, so why do I still feel like I'm not welcome?"
Might have something to do with the fixation on the idea of a "transplant". Can't say I've heard that before. Must be a New York thing.
Except she doesn’t say that she still feels unwelcome.
This is a weird comment and you’re weird for writing it. Lady just suggested people volunteer so they get integrated and you took offense to that while lashing out like she’s the insecure one? Ok, buddy, sure thing lol.
I think its an any city with a strong identity thing. I've seen it in Austin, TX and Denver, CO.
Anyway, I think the advice to volunteer when you move to a new place is good advice all the same. Communities need volunteers, and newcomers need connections.
That's Macy Gilliam of Morning Brew (Good Work) and she is big on volunteering and fundraising
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