1. You say "the City" and expect everyone to know that this means Manhattan
2. You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building
3. You're always looking out for cool free things to do in the Village Voice
4. You're standing in a packed subway car with 200 hundred other people and everyone manages to avoid looking at each other
5. $150 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag
6. You live in a building with a larger population than most American towns.
7. Your doorman is Russian, your grocer is Korean, your deli man is Israeli, your building super is Italian, your laundry guy is Chinese, your favorite diner owner is Greek, the watch seller on your corner is Senegalese, your last cabbie was Pakistani, your news stand guy is Indian and your favorite falafel guy is Egyptian.
8. You get angry at people who say they're from NY and they tell you they're from upstate.
9. 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.
10. You know what a bodega is.
11. You're on the train and you see two kids walk in and one says "EXCUSE ME LADIES AND GENTLEMEN..."
12. When you're in the background of a tourists' photo.
13. You use the rats in the subway tracks to tell you when the train's approaching the station.
14. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
15. You've gotten jaywalking down to an art form.
16. When you're away from home, you miss "real" pizza and "real" bagels.
17. You know that Staten Island, although a borough of New York City, isn't really part of the City at all.
18. You're not in the least bit interested in going to Times Square on New Year's Eve.
19. You hate it when people that sit opposite you on the train stare at you.
20. You know the differences between all the different Ray's Pizzas.
21. Your local news is national news.
22. There is no North and South ... it's Uptown or Downtown.
23. You hate it when people who live upstate call themselves “New Yorkers.”
24. You can walk through "The City" for hours and not get tired but once you are out of NYC and walk for 10 minutes you feel exhausted.
25. You don't own an "I LOVE NEW YORK" shirt.
26. You watch movies and TV shows "filmed" in NYC and feel the constant need to correct geographical or factual errors.
27. Someone bumps into you, and you check for your wallet.
28. Rather than waiting safely on the sidewalk to cross the street, you wait inches away from speeding traffic waiting to cut through it.
29. You consider Westchester "upstate."
30. You order your dinner and have it delivered from the place across the street.
31. Rats are your new subway friends.
32. You know exactly which subway car & door will be closest to the stairs at your stop.
33. You have jaywalked in front of a cop. More than once. And they didn't care.
34. You can’t remember the last time you’ve seen more than twelve stars in the night sky.
35. You get lost whenever leave Manhattan because you're used to all the street being numbered.
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