Home. We all have different visions of it, and coming home for the holidays brings a sense of nostalgia to all of us. If you're from the Bronx or New York City, here's 32 signs you know your home is instilled in you forever.
1. Beaches are overrated and don't impress you.
2. Overflowing trash cans don't disgust you.
3. You know all the over-rated parts of the city and avoid them at all costs.
4. In fact, you only refer to Manhattan as "The City."
5. Your dream to live in a shoe box apartment in Brooklyn is very real.
6. You're a bagel aficionado.
7. You'd take the Hamptons over the Jersey Shore any day.
8. Your childhood consists of endless trips to the Botanical Gardens and Bronx Zoo.
9. Open fire hydrants are a common sight, and serve multiple purposes.
10. You lose an enormous amount of money to misplaced MetroCards.
11. You suck at driving, mostly because you don't do it, and avoid it all costs.
12. You can sleep anywhere, anytime--mostly on trains and subways.
13. You've never visited the Statue of Liberty, and never plan on it.
14. You know at least one kid trying to become a rapper or DJ.
15. You always wear headphones to avoid human interaction at all costs.
16. Slow walkers can go to hell.
17. You've been to Times Square once and hated every minute of it.
18. Your go-to breakfast will always be a bacon egg and cheese from the sketchiest deli.
19. You're overly suspicious of friendly people.
20. Nothing fills you with more anger than when you get on a subway and hear, "Excuse me may I have your attention???"
21. $15 fresh pressed juices are expensive, but you still buy them anyway.
22. In the summer you consider the wind from a passing subway car a "nice breeze."
23. You can swipe your MetroCard without breaking your walking stride.
24. Until you realize it has zero balance and you get punched in the gut by the subway bar.
25. In fact, you've totally ducked under one of these before and felt like a total badass:
26. When you tell people you're from the Bronx and they quickly get intimidated.
27. Seeing the Christmas house on Pelham Parkway was an annual event that brought great Christmas cheer:
