There's always some folks on both sides of any border that seem like they should be on the other side of it. I mean, that's the entire reason you and I are having this little side chat, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
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There's always some folks on both sides of any border that seem like they should be on the other side of it. I mean, that's the entire reason you and I are having this little side chat, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
You're not wrong. And for the record there's an important phrasing that is getting lost here. We are describing 'East New York'. It's like inner Mongolia vs Outer Mongoiia. East New York is a region of VT, not part of NY.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
It's truly an island with little in common with the rest of the region. If you're ok with a 15 minute drive into town the taxes are half (or less) which is ok but you really lose services quickly as you move away from town. The upside is you lose a lot of zoning restrictions making it easier to live as you please.Quote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
Yup. There's almost always a shared culture and design aesthetic. In some places this is more pronounced than others and sometimes it flips for some distance. This happens around Williamstown and Stockbridge MA and Kent CT where the New England aspects bleed west into NY.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
You could use Rt 30, give or take a few hundred yards, as an effective boundary to where it crosses Rt 7 then use 7 as the boundary right down to New Milford CT where E NY pretty much ends.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
‘pparently greys in yer beard gets ya teh geezer discount.
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lunch time
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and rez gas and weed are ubiquitous across teh upstates…
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Except for the res south of Syracuse, they're staying away from retail shops. Around Salamanca and the Akwesasne up north are the least expensive, around Seneca Falls is the most expensive.
hmmmmmmm.... i'm still not onboard. obstinate glens faller / spitting distance of eastern vt erQuote:
Originally Posted by riser4
i was in west pawlet when you could swim and jump in the quarries and the dead came to glens falls and there were industrial jobs in southern vermont
Hell no. Cleveland ain’t claiming MichiganQuote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Buuuuuud!Quote:
Originally Posted by DBdude
You seem to find your people no matter the continent. Well done.Quote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
Hey man, I didn't make the map, I just shared it. Take it up with the Michiganders that accepted that designation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Core Shot
was tryin’ ta enjoying a tasty meal at the fancy assed sit down place…
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but apparently they got “standards ta uphold”… fuckers made me use a glass.
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uc does give ya some good head though, don’t it?
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Who doesn't appreciate good head?
well, that was a productive week…
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if you look under the smog you can see ‘em gassin’ up the plane for me down at SCL. lift off in 5 hours
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In between really.... ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by MyNameIsAugustWest
Made a run up to CNY yesterday and noticed this at a piss stop on Rt 17 (future 86) not sure if it’s been mentioned before
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It says something about us when our vending machines need to be locked up inside of welded steel cages.
I've seen vending machines inside of prisons and jails not that well protected....Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
Yo m27, I see Mike Douglas is skiing in Portillo, did you see the Godfather of Freeskiing?
you mean this guy?
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Doug's is the least Upstate Fish Fry I've ever seen.
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That's the one by like Hancock right? That's one of my favorite rest areas in the state. It certainly has the cleanest bathroom and most attentive and friendly staff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
Yes, that’s the one. I didn’t see any staff. The men’s bathroom was ok I guess but my wife told me she had to hover. Admittedly, she has higher hygienic standards than I do- probably due to being raised downstate.Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
Heh, mine is the same. LI girls... They're usually there on Saturdays and I've seen them every weekday. Next time you're there look around the back of the building, that's where the office is.
Anyone see the disaster in CT today? 6 to as much as 13.5 inches so far today. What a mess.
Skinny-atlas is mosdef not in teh upstates. It's kinda like Saratoga Springs. And Lesotho. A country within a country...Quote:
Originally Posted by Peruvian
ETA: it is ironic (at least to me) that an upstate icon (Stewarts Shops) is HQ'ed in Saratoga Springs...or is that Malta?
We must have been somewhere outside of Rome when I saw the overlap intersection of where the eastern edge of Byrne Dairy & Deli’s dominion met the western frontier of Stewart’s Shops.