"Living away from my native place I became more consciously Kentuckian than I was when I lived at home. This is what the experience of exile can do, change your mind, utterly transform one’s perception of the world of home."
—
bell hooks, “Belonging: A Culture of Place”
(via jordantarwater)
I think this happens (to a certain degree) to me because I live in a city of transplants.  I am always conscious of the fact that most of the people I know are not from the place we are in… but I am and it fills me with love.  It’s odd that living in San Francisco and being from the Bay Area is a seeming anomaly within my generation.
So many people come to the Bay Area and stay because of what a wonderful place it is.  I’m blessed to have this place in my blood for 6 generations.  We are the changemakers and dreamers of dreams.  
Bay Area forever.