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You Know You're from Marin...
Facebook pages commemorate Marin, West Marin and Drake inside jokes.
How do you know you're from Marin County?
A popular facebook page, with over 2,700 fans, is finishing the sentence "You Know You're from Marin County When..."
It's a place for people to remember growing up in Marin, make fun of some of of our liberal and upper-class biases. The page starts with "You know you're from Marin County when it's a bigger deal to come out as a Republican than to come out of the closet."
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And then there's this insight from Alberta Brown Buller "...when it's 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning and you're driving on Sir Francis Drake Blvd and you see a guy walking down the street in full Scottish dress, kilt and all. Oh, sorry. I guess that just meant I was in Fairfax."
Similar pages have cropped up for West Marin and .
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"You Know You're from West Marin..." suggests residents on the other side of the hill have a long way to drive into town and their own inside jokes and "...a new stop sign makes the local paper."
And how do you know you're a Drake pirate? You'll have to check to find out.
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