I think you’re “from” whereever you went to school the most in or better put, whereever you grew up in and spent your formative years that defined your worldview.

I’m from NYC and as a native New Yorker, we don’t see anyone as a New Yorker who hasn’t at least gone to high school in nyc. I’m from South Brooklyn specifically. Its a game we play with other natives and we compare schools and talk trash. I won’t see anyone truly as a New Yorker otherwise.

But to not natives, it really doesn’t matter. Be it a month or ten years, it’s the same shit. You know your neighborhood and you keep your head down and do what you need to do to survive. Any other transplant gatekeeping on you can kiss your ass. You wanna be a New Yorker, you’re a New Yorker.

If they can’t kick you out, you can say you’re from there.

The moment you defend the local homeless population from asshole tourists.

I always assumed the answer was as soon as you moved there? Just moved to New York? You’re a New Yorker now. Just moved to Texas? You’re a Texan now.

I feel like it’s pretentiousness-dependent, some places you’ll never be a local in the minds of your new neighbours.

I think the moment you live in a place or have citizen ship in a place, you can identify as being one of them. As far as where you’re from, I think that can be gray. If I was born on a military base in Germany, but moved to Florida as a baby, I’d probably tell people I was born an Germany, but I grew up in Florida, or just say in from Florida depending who was asking.