A considerable number of the middle-aged generation of Springfield citizens have the accent of the greater New York metropolitan area. Marge Simpson and Barney Gumble both exhibit rhotic New York metropolitan accents (as spoken, for example, in Long Island or North Jersey), while Carl Carlson and Lenny Leonard, as well as Moe Szyslak (who is not a Springfield native, but who moved there as a young child), all exhibit the authentically non-rhotic (or "r"-dropping), working-class accent of New York City itself (as spoken, for example, in Brooklyn).