Are you... local?

Apparently, to be eligible,
you and your parents needed to have been born there*

Plus, with at least one, or preferably both of your grandparents
buried in the local cemetery.

What is with the whole "local" thing anyway?

Having a lineage that goes back three generations

does not necessarily define one as a local!

When used in the context, I'm writing about,
re-defining local is long overdue.

For me, local, or should that be Local? Is about the attitude toward

celebrating - community, civic pride and locality, not about ancestry.

*It seems everywhere I've lived; I've never qualified as a "local"

perhaps till now