You're in the process of losing your Flatlander status when you start thinking about buying your first 'big truck' and picturing yourself behind the wheel as you 4 wheel through the back roads.

You know that you've finally arrived at being mountain folk when the UPS and FedEx drivers ask you for directions and you can give them.

You know that you're no longer a Flatlander when going 'down the hill' to Fresno becomes a necessity to be done with as soon as possible and not something that you look forward to.

You know that your family is adapting to life in the mountains when your children stop saying, "There's nothing to do up here" and start saying, "What?? They're going to let someone else build a house up here?"

You know that you're in the country when every conversation only takes about 2 minutes or less to happen upon the subject of the 2nd amendment of the US Constitution.

You've got a long way to go to become country folk if you have to go look up the 2nd amendment of the US Constitution.

You're in the process of becoming hill folk when the phrase "You Deserve a Break Today" means going outside and taking a walk and talking to your neighbors rather than trying to find the nearest burger place

There's beginning to be hope for you when your first impulse upon wanting a midnite snack is to NOT go to the nearest AM/PM.

You've definitely become hill folk when any trip of less than a mile's length isn't worth starting the car for. You'd rather walk.

You're still a Flatlander when you have to get in your car to drive down your driveway, cross the road and drive up the neighbors driveway to say hello.

You're even more of a Flatlander if you HAVEN'T gone down your driveway, crossed the road and gone up the neighbors driveway to say hello.

When you wake up in the morning to the sound of your neighbor exercising their 2nd amendment rights, and you only smile knowing that no one is going to mess with your neighborhood today, then you've finally made it. Welcome to the ranks of hill folk.