there is Upstate, Downstate and WNY(Western New York) -where we drink pop, not soda
grew up in Webster, NY(WNY)
Hi Dave!!
Up here in the Adirondacks, we take it a step further and consider ourselves North Country. Would love to see it split into three or four states to more adequately and fairly address each regions political and economic needs, instead of just living with what the city says is good for the rest of us.
Upstate New York: (def.) - The part of the state that pays the bills of NYC.
(Part of the reason why I defected to PA.)
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Now we all know what's wrong with the nice people on SMC. They are from NY, boy, am I glad they're spread out all over the country! They don't seem to know where they live or lived. I am in the upstate of SC north of Columbia, where we draw the line. That's a fact jack!
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From a Western NY (a little ways south of Rochester) perspective, Western NY is anything west of Syracuse.
North Country NY is anything North of a line between Syracuse and the Vermont border (basically, the Adirondacks).
Upstate NY is anything between that line and NYC (basically, the Catskills).
NYC is a mystical island city that gives us a lot of headaches, and given its population density, should be a state of it's own...
I once met a man in NYC (while someone was touring us past the Empire State Building ), who told me he'd never been outside the city. When asked why, he said that he was scared to. I told him I would be scared to live in NYC. He looked confused and said, "but there's bears out there aren't there?"
Greg, is there "pop" in the southeast? I'm afraid that the drinking of soda may become a statewide problem here...
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Bill
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Here in Michigan, anything north of Bay City is up nort.
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Curt, I'm not sure that I told the guy my thoughts about having more faith in bears roaming the woods than in other predators roaming the city, other than saying I'd be scared to live there. It took a minute for us to recover from shock, and some chuckling. Most of us in the handful of guys I was with spent our teenage years working on the farm, and at the time we were not long out of our teens. It was a good wake-up call to the differences in perception between urban and rural life!
It is funny how often the debate of "pop" vs. "soda" comes up. In my neck of the woods, we drink pop. The use of the word soda will quiet a room as quick as the start of a western saloon gun fight.
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There are several distinct areas of NYS. The Western part of NY is Western New York , or WNY . It is composed of 8 Counties. ERIE, NIAGARA, CHATAUQUA ,CATTARAUGUS, ALLEGHANY, WYOMING, GENESEE, ORLEANS Counties. Then there is Central New York. That region is the Counties just to the East of WNY and they include all of the Finger Lakes Region. Up to I believe Syracuse. To the North, is the Adirondacks Region. More commonly known as Northern New York. Eastern NY would include the Albany area. The Catskill region would be South East NY . Downstate NY is the NYC area , including the Long Island area.