Technicality Question
As you know, I am moving to the East Coast next week.
(And if you didn't know, this is obviously the first post you've ever read here.)
I have been writing a couple new biographies, trying to explain that I am from the West Coast (Oregon) and moving to the East Coast (New Jersey), but I keep stumbling across this issue of how to phrase where I am from.
Am I an East Coast transplant or a West Coast transplant?
I am so confused. It makes sense to me either way so I don't know what to put. Do you refer to the place that you are going to or where you are from?
Sigh.
Please, somebody tell me the proper way to write this!
Thanks in advance.
posted by Allison @ 6:30 PM
7 Comments:
Ok we are thinking you are a West Coast Transplant. But you might still want to take a poll. =)
Allison,
I would assume you are a West coast Transplant. You have been moved from the West coast to the East coast. I am just quessing here. I promise the average to you soon.
Wendyp
I think you're probably a West Coast Transplant, but if you wanted to be really clear about it, maybe you could say something like "recently transplanted from the West Coast"?
Why not say something like "originally from Oregon, now living on the East Coast" or something like that. It works without apologies for whether are are a transplantee, where you are from or where you have been transplanted to.
Allison
About 20 years ago I moved from Ireland to Massachusetts.
At this stage I consider myself an Irish native living in Massachusetts. I'm a US citizen with a CIA (Chinese Irish American) family, but a good deal of my heart will always be in Ireland.
You're a West Coast transplant, but I'd say "a transplant from the West Coast," just to be crystal clear.
I'd go with something like, "a transplant from the west coast" or "a transplant to the east coast", just to avoid confusion. :)
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