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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
Bingo.
...some people from UPSTATE New York (why do they always add UPSTATE when identifying where they come from?)...and so on. .
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We add "Upstate " because to simply say "New York" is an incomplete answer. New York could mean "New York City" which is a completely different world than "Upstate". Upstate is very rural, very green, punctuated with many fascinating and beautiful natural geographic features, such as gorges, waterfalls, rivers, marshes, lakes etc.
NYC is mostly concrete and is densely populated with skyscrapers and high-rises.
Attitudes tend to be markedly different between the two areas, and generally political affiliations tend to be more "Red" than "Blue" upstate, compared to NYC.
I love visiting NYC, but it's a completely different universe than where I live in Upstate NY.