I hear it in movies so the time. We’re going upstate. I went upstate. Etc

I never hear downstate, or similar. Does it just mean going north?

  • @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    New York the state or NYC?

    Edit: I am terribly sorry for not knwing all citiies and to what state and where they belong on the us map as someone not from North America… 🙄

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      “The Northern and Western parts of New York State that are not new York City” how is there any confusion?

        • In my experience people in the Northeast US pretty much never refer to New York City as just ‘New York’. New York will mean the state, they will say ‘the city’ or ‘NYC’ to differentiate from the state. Or they will say upstate to mean the rest of the state outside of NYC metro area.

    • Gamma
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      41 year ago

      I feel like the answer to this lies within the word itself

    • @whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml
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      You’re being downvoted because your question makes no sense. Both NYC and New York State are mentioned, so what are you even asking for clarification on?