* You consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping it will swim by.
* You're proud your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Mt. Washington is the coldest spot in the nation, and Boston gets more snow than any other majority in the U.S.
* Your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May.
* You instinctively walk like a penguin for six months out of the year.
* Someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance, and they don't work there.
* You've worn shorts and a parka at the same time.
* You've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number.
* "Vacation" means going anywhere south of New York City for the weekend.
* You measure distance in hours.
* You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
* You go to the supermarket and it's closed at 8 pm.
* You've switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
* You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching.
* You install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked.
* You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend/wife knows how to use them.
* You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
* Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
* You know all 4 seasons -- almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.
* Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
* "Down South" to you means Philadelphia.
* Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new shed.
* Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
* You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
* You find 10 degrees "a little chilly."
Laura Roberts, thanks for the post.
[Sadly, most of these are true. Does that make me a New Englander? Never. Just a long-term visitor.]
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Dude, my papers and driver's license still say differently.
Besides, we DO have rotaries in New Jersey (as well as jug-handles).
I never really did understand Patriots Day. I mean I can understand the holiday if your from or live in Massachusetts. But in Connecticut it's just another holiday I have to work on that no one knows about.
I guess I'll take your advice and refer to myself as a "temporary" New Englander. At least that'll get me to the next weekend when I leave New England...again.
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