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CI Carlson's avatar

Say you’re a resident localmotive.

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

I really like this one 😹😹

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Dr. Linda L. Moore's avatar

I truly understand since my friends there were long long time residents and business owners and still knew they were not locals.

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

You MUST be born here lol!

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James Hart's avatar

I'm from a similar area. No joke, an obituary I remember some years back from the local paper: "Although not a local to the area, Mrs. So-n-so had lived in the county for 68 years."

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

Yeah, that sound about exactly like this place 😅

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Reda Rountree (she/her)'s avatar

This is also true when you grow up in The South.

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

I think I have to move back to Menomonie and run for State Senate. It's the only way anybody will consider me a dang local!

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Jim Nelson's avatar

Yup!! My brother lives in Depot Bay...been there for over 30 years-- Love that area--

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

The whale watching capital of Oregon! Love it there 😄

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Michelle Marie Engelman Berns's avatar

Ha! Yes! Ferndale CA is much the same. My husband and I lived there after he retired from the Coast Guard, and even though it was a super small town, only the “blood of the earth “ could be a local. We were “other people” hahah

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Adam Rockwell's avatar

LOL, I hear you, Michelle! Being from a small town in Wisconsin (Menomonie), that's how they were to "outsiders." I could go back today, run for state Senate or something, and still be considered a local there!! :-)

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