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You Know You Grew Up in Suffolk County If…

11. You know that Field 5 at Robert Moses Beach is for families, Field 2 is where the cool people go and Field 3 is for losers. robert moses state park10. You know not to feed the deer! 

Fire Island

9. Keep your Hamptons share house, we’ll be on the ferry to Fire Island. 

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Backpackers walk off into the Fire Island wilderness to camp.

8. You know Lyme Disease is no joke. 

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Deer ticks, like these, transmit Lyme disease to humans, including Long Island residents.

7. You know Ralph Macchio lives here. ralph macchio portrait resized 
6. You know there’s a suburban legend of a vengeful princess at the bottom of Lake Ronkonkoma waiting to claim another male. 

Lake Ronkonkoma
Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island’s largest lake.

5. That the real mall is in Huntington. 

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Walt Whitman Mall in Huntington. (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

4. You know where the sidewalk ends. sidewalk

3. We root for the Long Island Ducks. 

 

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2. East Northport is actually south of Northport. East northport ny map

1. Our duck is bigger than your duck. 

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The Big Duck in Flanders (Photo: Friends of The Big Duck, bigduck.org)