Me At Home Vs Me Everywhere Else Twitter Meme, Holiday

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One of the first questions people usually ask each other when they first meet is, "Where are you from?" The answer is never simple. Do you talk about where you were born, where you've lived the longest, or where you feel like you belong the most?

As many of us prepare to go home for the holidays, we start to give more thought to the place where we have roots — if we have such a place at all. And the perfect meme just popped up on Twitter to encapsulate that near-universal feeling of being "from" somewhere. "Me at home vs. me everywhere else" is straightforward: The template is, "Me at home: I hate this town. Me everywhere else: Don't you knock my hometown, it's the best place ever!" It perfectly illustrates the conflict between hometown pride and the desire to get out.

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Refinery29 writer Andrea Gonzalez-Ramirez, who is from Puerto Rico but has lived in NYC for almost four years, says, "I think it really speaks about the feeling of being in the diaspora and how you sort of relearn to love the place you're from." Even if we no longer feel like we're 100% "from" our hometown, many of us are still asked to represent it all the time and that begets a special relationship with it.

Ahead, we asked a few R29 staffers to write their own "me at home vs. me everywhere else" memes.

Me in New Jersey: This place nothing more than a highway strip mall.
Me everywhere else: New Jersey is so much more than turnpike, you ignorant people. I have a Garden State tattoo. I was nourished by the same soil as Bruce Springsteen. The Jersey Shore is a goddamn delight. https://t.co/5Kh3HFWu1x
— Elena Nicolaou (@elenawonders) December 1, 2017

me in chicago: this city is a segregated, overtaxed, corrupt waste

me anywhere else: deep dish pizza is better than nyc pizza, chicago will be the only major city left when global warming consumes the coasts, the lake is better than the ocean fight me
— mystic order of pamplemousse rose la+croix (@meaganrosae) December 1, 2017

Me in Rhode Island: This is the smallest, most boring place on earth

Me anywhere else: I don't even drink milk unless it's coffee milk. Oh, so you can't buy quahogs at your local grocery store? Find me a better state mascot than the big blue bug, I wicked dare ya.
— Madeline Buxton (@MadelineBuxton) December 1, 2017

It's really hard to hate on Colorado, so Jen's (and other Coloradans') answer was a little different...

Me in Colorado: Why did I ever leave this place?

Me everywhere else: You call these mountains? Why is it so cloudy here? It's Colo-RAD-o, not Color-AH-do. Why did I ever leave Colorado? ?
— Jen Anderson (@j3nand3rson) December 1, 2017

Me in DC: Everyone is boring and can't dress.
Me everywhere else: We're so much more than the corrupt government. May it rain mambo sauce. RIP City Paper and @DCist. NYC is so damn cold. What do you mean you can't drive on a circle?!
— natalie gontcharova (@natalie_nyc) December 1, 2017

Here are a few of the best ones we found on Twitter.

Me in Russia: wow this is awful

Me everywhere else: Mother Russia is the greatest country in the world. I play balalayka in my sleep. I have borsch running through my veins. I have 3 pet bears in my backyard. My pirazhki brings all the boys to the yard. https://t.co/mjZ3ycJNOv
— Ari. (@arianachkaa) November 29, 2017

Me in Canada: why is winter 9 months long?

Me anywhere else: I bleed maple syrup. I rode the Maid of the Mist before I could crawl. I knew Drake before he was famous. The beaver is a beautiful and majestic creature. https://t.co/7w0C2H7H5R
— Lauren (@Lauren_deOlive) November 25, 2017

Me in Puerto Rico: i hate this goddamn colony

Me anywhere else: We have a different beach for every day of the year. Our main export is reggaeton and ya’ll love it! I drank pitorro before I could walk. Daddy Yankee is my cousin. My father is a coquí frog. https://t.co/NOLhfkf9cO
— gabriela, cravo e canela (@babyginebra) November 27, 2017

Yo en PR: Odio esta isla hace un calor infernal y el gobierno no sirve

Yo fuera de PR: Puerto Rico es la Isla del Encanto. Nací gritando “Wepa” arropada en la bandera. Solo como mofongo. Café corre por mis venas. Me acuesto a dormir escuchando La Borinqueña. Vivo en paraíso.
— p (@voguebling) November 27, 2017

Me in Honduras: I can’t wait to leave this place

Me everywhere else: I’m catracha for lyfe, I can make baleadas in my sleep, Berta Cáceres is our national hero, I live in pico bonito, our culture is unmatched, aguazul beats fiji any day ?. Copan is where the og fam is at https://t.co/AX0nGFoceo
— ((amy)) (@amypmorales) November 29, 2017

Me in Pakistan: I can't wait to move out.

Me everywhere else: We have the 2nd highest peak in the world. Have you ever seen Hunza? Who got the highest road in the world bitch? us! Coke Studio for life. I'm made of Pulao and Charsi Tikka. Bowlers in my village bowl at 140km https://t.co/MfVr2f7XRt
— مير (@MirSanaullah) November 28, 2017

The meme started on November 19 when Twitter user @Jordank1230 posted his thoughts on being from Maryland, according to Know Your Meme. He tweeted, "Me in Maryland: this place is the armpit of America. Me anywhere else: I put Old Bay seasoning on EVERYthing. I learned how to pick crabs before I could walk. Our flag is so beautiful. I love the Chesapeake Bay. I have had sex with a blue crab." As you may have guessed, the tweet went viral.

me in Maryland: this place is the armpit of America

me anywhere else: l put Old Bay seasoning on EVERYthing. l learned how to pick crabs before l could walk. Our flag is so beautiful. l love the Chesapeake Bay. l have had sex with a blue crab.
— holly jolly jordank (@jordank1230) November 19, 2017

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