老北京人："Old Beijing Folks"

Driving home tonight in pelting rain on top of a motorbike that seemed to be disintegrating underneath me, I had an idea for another thread. 老北京人 lao beijing ren is Chinese for "old Beijing folks," folks who know how it really is in the North Capital of China. Hopefully, LBJR posts can shed some light on how your perceptions about things in China change as you spend more and more time here.