...while hiking in your mountains, you hear comments designed to temper your love for your state by comparing your mountains to "real mountains" (which are actually only half the size of other mountains) and wonder why they are here if your mountains are not sufficiently "real", and then smile and continue to enjoy your beautiful mountains and forest, knowing those who unsuccesfully attempted to drag your spirits down will soon go back to "from away".
for the tenth year in a row your town voted down an addition to the ancient library even though someone donated the land, but voted to buy the police ATV's and night vision goggles.