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Basically. The way it works is, there are two cultural poles in the northeast: NY and Boston. New England, other than western CT, aligns to Boston. Western CT and NJ align to New York. My family is from eastern CT, originated in Mass (prior to my generation), and vacations in Maine. Much of the rest of my family is from or vacations in New Hampshire, and sometimes Vermont.
Think of it this way: that region is smaller than Texas. It is heavily interlocked, no matter whether you can drive across three states before lunch. People just talk about Massachusetts because that's the part big enough to bother talking about, but really, it covers most of the area.
Think of it this way: that region is smaller than Texas. It is heavily interlocked, no matter whether you can drive across three states before lunch. People just talk about Massachusetts because that's the part big enough to bother talking about, but really, it covers most of the area.
05-17-20, 08:13 AM
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05-17-20, 08:35 AM
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The real question is what sort of generalizations exist in people’s minds when they think of New York or Massachusetts. I suspect they picture NYC and Boston, to a majority extent, because the rest of the vastness gets little publicity and is a mystery to outsiders.
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05-17-20, 08:43 AM
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Shopping for some bike crap, I need four or five things, and trying to support local as much as possible, but none of the shops in the area has more than one of the items that I need in stock. 
05-17-20, 08:51 AM
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But you can say pretty much the same about Massachusetts west of Boston . . . just a totally different place outside of the big city.
The real question is what sort of generalizations exist in people’s minds when they think of New York or Massachusetts. I suspect they picture NYC and Boston, to a majority extent, because the rest of the vastness gets little publicity and is a mystery to outsiders.
The real question is what sort of generalizations exist in people’s minds when they think of New York or Massachusetts. I suspect they picture NYC and Boston, to a majority extent, because the rest of the vastness gets little publicity and is a mystery to outsiders.
05-17-20, 09:10 AM
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<==Shopped Watertown years ago when we stayed at my uncle's north of the border. It was the short trip when we didn't want to drive all the way to the big city mall (Syracuse)
05-17-20, 09:23 AM
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I don't have trouble with saddles either.
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You can see a lot of this in sports teams - all of New England is Patriots/ Red Sox, except for CT which is split. Upstate NY is Giants for those who align to NYC and Bills for those who don't. The further down south you go, the more you see Jets, until NJ is Jets territory.
But for example, for much of my family, the world doesn't extend past New England - they can't understand, and are slightly hurt by, the fact that it's not worth it for me to blow two days of vacation traveling each way to that island in Maine where they want to vacation. The fact that I could spend (in a normal version of the world...) that travel time getting to Hong Kong or Europe is water off a duck's back to them; those are places to read about but you live in CT or MA or NH, and vacation in ME because that's what you do and that's the entire world. The fact that it also takes ten laps of the island to get a half-decent run workout in also doesn't register with them.
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spent christmas in watertown three years ago. christmas dinner took place at dennys. One of the smallest airports I have ever been too.
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05-17-20, 09:41 AM
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05-17-20, 09:52 AM
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05-17-20, 10:00 AM
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Me: "I'm a five hour drive from NYC."
Some people I know:
05-17-20, 10:04 AM
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When I first arrived here, CNY and Western NY accents sounded vaguely Mid-Western to me.
05-17-20, 10:24 AM
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It’s pretty tiny. I don’t go back there often, it’s chain restaurant hell and with 2 kids and 2 dogs none of my family can really put us up when we visit.
05-17-20, 10:26 AM
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You missed out on the indoor carousel.
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Yeah, up there goes towards WNY/ Pittsburgh.
You can see a lot of this in sports teams - all of New England is Patriots/ Red Sox, except for CT which is split. Upstate NY is Giants for those who align to NYC and Bills for those who don't. The further down south you go, the more you see Jets, until NJ is Jets territory.
But for example, for much of my family, the world doesn't extend past New England - they can't understand, and are slightly hurt by, the fact that it's not worth it for me to blow two days of vacation traveling each way to that island in Maine where they want to vacation. The fact that I could spend (in a normal version of the world...) that travel time getting to Hong Kong or Europe is water off a duck's back to them; those are places to read about but you live in CT or MA or NH, and vacation in ME because that's what you do and that's the entire world. The fact that it also takes ten laps of the island to get a half-decent run workout in also doesn't register with them.
You can see a lot of this in sports teams - all of New England is Patriots/ Red Sox, except for CT which is split. Upstate NY is Giants for those who align to NYC and Bills for those who don't. The further down south you go, the more you see Jets, until NJ is Jets territory.
But for example, for much of my family, the world doesn't extend past New England - they can't understand, and are slightly hurt by, the fact that it's not worth it for me to blow two days of vacation traveling each way to that island in Maine where they want to vacation. The fact that I could spend (in a normal version of the world...) that travel time getting to Hong Kong or Europe is water off a duck's back to them; those are places to read about but you live in CT or MA or NH, and vacation in ME because that's what you do and that's the entire world. The fact that it also takes ten laps of the island to get a half-decent run workout in also doesn't register with them.
05-17-20, 10:28 AM
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05-17-20, 10:35 AM
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I don't recall much specific about the malls other than going there. It was the heyday of malls, though. We also bought petro and foodstuffs.
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05-17-20, 11:19 AM
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Me: That's like three hours from me.
Family:
Repeat for Texas. Also with the Houston flooding and a number of other issues
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My dad used to do that kind of thing to me when I lived in NYC - he didn't understand that a) it's a really big city and that b) ...how do I say this? It's not only really big, but it's kind of broken up further in to walking-sized chunks - 3 miles away can be a different world that you never come in to contact with.
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05-17-20, 11:41 AM
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Not enough walking achievements if you think three miles is too far to walk.
05-17-20, 12:06 PM
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That said, walking three miles to a specific destination in NYC is... pretty rare. You already have a metro card in your pocket - you walk a half mile to a station, you hop on the subway, hop off at a station near your destination and walk the remainder. The other difference is that walking is more often done as a matter of course or necessity throughout the day; recreational walking is more of a thing when you're living the I-only-walk-the-50-steps-to-and-from-my-car lifestyle.
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