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Related: About this forumCorporatist carpetbagger versus Brooklyn born and bred?
Should be no contest, surely?
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Corporatist carpetbagger versus Brooklyn born and bred? (Original Post)
Nye Bevan
Apr 2016
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Squinch
(50,950 posts)1. One chose to live here with us. One ran away from us like a bat out of hell. So, there's that.
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)6. True that.. n/t
msongs
(67,409 posts)2. "brooklyn born and bred" to brooklyn - this place sux and Im OUTTA here lol nt
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)3. OP is snark nt
Skid Rogue
(711 posts)4. New York really doesn't think like that. Thank God!
It truly is a city of immigrants. I mean, it's a place where the term "1st generation" is a matter of pride.
Depaysement
(1,835 posts)5. Ignore
You might be a wee bit closer to Maggie Thatcher than Nye Bevan.