townie

noun8

1. •
   (UK) A person who has moved from a town or city to a rural area. Especially, one who is perceived not to have adopted rural ways.

   • [Hamlet] was only repeating the phrase of an ordinary English rustic when jeering at a “townie”—whom he suspected of being a gutter-snipe—that “He don’t know a hawk from a hernshaw”. — 1914
2. •
   (US, UK) A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university.

   • Professional gamblers have a cushy racket in college football because old grads and even townies of college localities are sentimental bettors and easy to separate from their money. — 1947
3. •
   (UK, informal) A person who lives in a city or town, or has an urban outlook.

   • Here I parted with my fellow-townies, whose home shed at Millhouses covers fields where I played as a child. — 1949
4. •
   (UK, informal) A person from Stornoway.
5. •
   (UK, offensive) A chav.
6. •
   (UK) A person familiar with the town (urbanised centre of a city) and with going out on the town; a street-wise person.
7. •
   (US) A working-class citizen in a metropolitan area.
8. •
   (informal, rare) Diminutive of town; synonym of small town.

   • [W]e came within a Mile o’ Godlamin, a little Townie upo’ the Rod, […] — 1744

noun1

1. •
   A person from Charlestown, Massachusetts, (especially) a working-class person of Irish American heritage.

   • Racial isolation is so strong that in the early 1970s there were only 388 blacks among the 38,488 residents of South Boston, and only 76 among the 15,353 “Townies” of Charlestown. — 1981