New Yorkers always tend to pick on Staten Islanders. It's just busting balls. That's it. Nothing more. Maybe it's because the proximity to NJ and how the kids from Jersey come in to party and drink when the NJ bars stop serving at 2am or maybe it's the massive traffic jams daily on the 440 or that that huge one way toll. It's all in fun and it's a running joke like living in NJ is.