And the “who’s a real New Yorker” discourse is nonsense. You’re a New Yorker when you get off the bus/plane/boat as long as you really want to stay.
You know what 90 lbs of border collie is? That’s Buck from Call of the Wild.
So we’re doing “who’s a real New Yorker” discourse, and as I do when this comes up, I note that at the very beginning of the 20th C, O Henry wrote down how you get to be a New Yorker: www.online-literature.com/o_henry/4529/