the great thing about living far away from your birth state/region is that you can confidently explain all your linguistic quirks as a "regional thing" and then have people get angry at you when they go visit someone there

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the great thing about living far away from your birth state/region is that you can confidently explain all your linguistic quirks as a "regional thing" and then have people get angry at you when they go visit someone there