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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
..some people from UPSTATE New York (why do they always add UPSTATE when identifying where they come from?)...
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Driving through Arkansas with my parents back in the late 70s(?) our NY license plates drew some odd and less-than-friendly looks. This was back when the Federal Govt was going to bail out NYC and not everyone was happy with the idea. The attitude changed when we explained that we were from the "other" NY, the part that didn't have the Empire State Building or Statue of Liberty, and that we weren't happy about it either. That's when I started adding "Upstate."
It also helped when I moved to Md and explained that I had never seen NYC and was actually closer to it in Md than where I grew up.
It seems there are many people who are unaware that vast majority of NY State sits between NYC and Canada.
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Last edited by Bill14564; 09-03-2022 at 07:47 AM.
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