[jrzeis@tampabay.rr.com]

I moved north to TV from Tampa

[nhtexasrn]

Originally Posted by b0bd0herty

Anything South of Game of Throne's Ice Wall is "South." I think it's appropriate!

When we tell people we're from Texas, they kind of look at us funny. It gets cold in Texas too! LOL

[LuvNH]

I heard on the weather this morning, a weather man refer to the West Coast as North West and the East Coast as North East. Easy peezy.

[bark4me]

Originally Posted by Michael 61

So, I’m brand new to Florida, coming from Colorado. I hear lots of people in TV refer to “The North”, or going back home to “The North”. I usually find out they are referring to the mid-Atlantic, New England or the Mid West. Technically, Colorado is north of Florida, but it is way more west than it is north. It seems weird to me to refer to Colorado as “North”. In conversations with people, they seem to refer to any state other than Florida as “North”. Do those of you from Pacific and Rocky Mt states say you are going north, or going west when going back home?

Well you're clearly not going west of TV as that would be the Gulf coast of Florida. Colorado is northwest of TV so why not just say that? Seems easy enough.

[ldj1938]

The Gulf coast is the "left" coast.

[RICH1]

It’s a term of Endearment! …. Like a “ snowbird”. If everyone stayed here for the summer, this place would run out of fun!

[Milo's mom]

West

[Cgawerec]

I too am from Colorado and I say when we go home, going out west. Will always be west . Not north 💕

[ron32162]

How about the Mason- Dixon line. Most people were taught that in the 5th grade

[AlfaWard]

Growing up in "the North" we were taught the Civil War definitions of "the North vs the South". Wasn't until I moved to The South that the Civil War was not called that "here in the South". Rather it was defined as "the war of Northern aggression" and many in NC, SC, and GA still use that connotation. Odd they DO NOT include Florida in that list. haaa.

[ElDiabloJoe]

Originally Posted by AlfaWard

Growing up in "the North" we were taught the Civil War definitions of "the North vs the South". Wasn't until I moved to The South that the Civil War was not called that "here in the South". Rather it was defined as "the war of Northern aggression" and many in NC, SC, and GA still use that connotation. Odd they DO NOT include Florida in that list. haaa.

Funny you point that out. I spent a few years in a place, and my best friend from HS lived there a few years - a town in Maryland called Sharpsburg. The site of a large battle. Most people refer to it as Antietam, since that is what the winning side (north) called it. We still refer to it as the Battle of Sharpsburg.

[daniel200]

Originally Posted by Michael 61

So, I’m brand new to Florida, coming from Colorado. I hear lots of people in TV refer to “The North”, or going back home to “The North”. I usually find out they are referring to the mid-Atlantic, New England or the Mid West. Technically, Colorado is north of Florida, but it is way more west than it is north. It seems weird to me to refer to Colorado as “North”. In conversations with people, they seem to refer to any state other than Florida as “North”. Do those of you from Pacific and Rocky Mt states say you are going north, or going west when going back home?

Some historical context: Back during the American revolution King George III sent a scout to the northern territories.
The scout returned and rushed to the King to deliver his report.
"Your Grace, the northerners are revolting!"

To which King George III replied, "I do know that they don't take a bath that often, but isn't it a bit too rude to call them that?"

[Villages Kahuna]

For me “up north” is Chicago. But my heritage of several generations is as a Yooper (the Upper Peninsula of Michigan). But if I want to go back even further, a lot of my ancestors lived in the far north of Finland, near the Arctic Circle!

[sasman29]

Since Key West is the Southernmost point in the continental United States... Everything is North of Florida :-)

[CoachKandSportsguy]

the OP's confusion is easily explained by the difference between direction versus colloquial description of the region, or the region in that direction. .

time to get back to family time