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1) You've forgotten how many APA/CIP/RTPI conferences you've been to.
2) You collect APA chapter pins.
3) ... and have completed a full map of the United States with them.
4) ... which you wear to every planning conference you attend.
5) You've spent more time in a ten year old former police car than your own vehicle.
6) You read zoning regulations for fun.
7) You function in nonstop "built environment critic" mode as you drive along the road.
8) You know all the zoning regulations that apply to your hosue, even though it's in a different municipality from where you work.
9) You don't notice attractive members of the appropriate sex when you're driving down the street, but your eyes instinctively bend towards every cell tower, billboard and pre-engineered building.
10) You've looked at houses for sale in Portland, Oregon on a Web real estate site, "just to see, that's all."
11) You face Portland whenever you pray.
12) You drew maps of imaginary cities when you were a kid -- and the street patterns looked like the real thing, including downtown grids, City Beautiful-era meandering parkways, modern loop n' lollypop subdivisions and rail transit.
13) You drive an hour out of the way to shop at "the nice Target, with the articulated walls and generous transparency and commuity-sensitive design and ..."
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2) You collect APA chapter pins.
3) ... and have completed a full map of the United States with them.
4) ... which you wear to every planning conference you attend.
5) You've spent more time in a ten year old former police car than your own vehicle.
6) You read zoning regulations for fun.
7) You function in nonstop "built environment critic" mode as you drive along the road.
8) You know all the zoning regulations that apply to your hosue, even though it's in a different municipality from where you work.
9) You don't notice attractive members of the appropriate sex when you're driving down the street, but your eyes instinctively bend towards every cell tower, billboard and pre-engineered building.
10) You've looked at houses for sale in Portland, Oregon on a Web real estate site, "just to see, that's all."
11) You face Portland whenever you pray.
12) You drew maps of imaginary cities when you were a kid -- and the street patterns looked like the real thing, including downtown grids, City Beautiful-era meandering parkways, modern loop n' lollypop subdivisions and rail transit.
13) You drive an hour out of the way to shop at "the nice Target, with the articulated walls and generous transparency and commuity-sensitive design and ..."
Feel free to add on ...
