The shops with Brooklyn in their name don't irritate me, or transplants. I am glad things look less gritty, although, I don't want to go too Disney or Normal Ro

The shops with Brooklyn in their name don't irritate me, or transplants. I am glad things look less gritty, although, I don't want to go too Disney or Normal Rockwell here ;) After all, I am a mutt, and at some point on my father's side, his father was from either the Ukraine or Poland depending on the borders at the time, and settled in the Lower East Side. My grandmother, my mom's mom, was from Ireland. My (4x) great grandfather on my father's side was from Scotland and fought with George Washington in the Revolutionary War. I was confused and curious at the same time on why someone who was born and grew up in LA, lived in Brooklyn only for two or three years or their 35 year old life, then back to LA before I had this conversation with her, would answer "Where are you from?", with "Brooklyn". She had been in SE Asia for a couple of years by then too. She also seemed like she got caught in a lie when this came up with me. Chameleon?