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Originally Posted by Merrymeeting
My mother is from Rutland, Vt.
My dad is from CT.
We settled in and I grew up in MA
But we moved to the Lakes Region every summer since the 60's.
My parents were residents of New Durham for 35 years, and my dad is buried there.
My mother continues to live there.
I own a home and pay taxes there. But I still live and work in MA (for a few more years until I can retire to NH)
My in-laws live in Biddeford, ME
What am I?
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A: Tourist.
I still chuckle at a conversation I overhead in a waiting room one day... Two ladies, one local, one not, engaged in idle chatter until the topic turned to "native or not?" The visitor became enraged at the suggestion she wasn't a native. "Well we're natives, too. We've been coming up here for years!"
Personally, I don't care where you're from. Just stop trying to change "here" to look like "there". It kind of defeats the purpose of you wanting to be "here".