The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[Benny Profane]

I would just start coughing a lot if some Super Trooper was so bored he had to pull me over.

[Benny Profane]

What a nightmare

For Vermont business this winter.

[Benny Profane]

I'm going to go out on a limb with my assumption that selling bikes is NOT considered 'essential' work.

Obviously, you haven't tried to buy a bike recently.

[Timberridge]

I would just start coughing a lot if some Super Trooper was so bored he had to pull me over.

Tell them you're just passing through on your way to Canada for some...

[Peruvian]

For Vermont business this winter.

You keep saying this as if the pandemic hasn’t been a major hit to businesses in every state.

[buttahflake]

I’ve started giving the bird to NY plates again, just like in April. Stay the fuck home

[Timberridge]

What about NJ?

[gravitylover]

What about NJ?

Whether you care to admit it or not you are part of the NY Metro area. It's ok though because we don't really want NJ but we're stuck with you

[Brownski]

Whether you care to admit it or not you are part of the NY Metro area. It's ok though because we don't really want NJ but we're stuck with you

Only if it’s northern NJ. Downstate is a whole ‘ other deal I think. You gotta reverse it for NJ, right?

[Brownski]

I’ve started giving the bird to NY plates again, just like in April. Stay the fuck home

Considering the VT situation, I may finally come ski in NH this year. I’ll wave

[Timberridge]

Whether you care to admit it or not you are part of the NY Metro area. It's ok though because we don't really want NJ but we're stuck with you

That was my fear.

May as well just leave the Wintersteiger unplugged this year Buttah.

[gravitylover]

Considering the VT situation, I may finally come ski in NH this year. I’ll wave

LOL

[gravitylover]

That was my fear.

May as well just leave the Wintersteiger unplugged this year Buttah.

Actually isn't everything between the Chesapeake and New London part of the NY Metro? I mean, we are the biggest and the bestest right?

[BmillsSkier]

Benny said the NYC Metro includes DC and Boston.

But really that’s another thread guys.

[gravitylover]

So you're starting a NY Metro and downstate thread?

[Timberridge]

Subscribed for the hot LI babes and food reviews. Plus there's world class skiing right here in NJ.

[BmillsSkier]

So you're starting a NY Metro and downstate thread?

I'd prefer to wrap the expedition to plot the Upstate before getting too far in the weeds on anything else.

[gravitylover]

Wrap this up? Maybe in a year or three...

[BmillsSkier]

Well for one, we've got to wait until they put the water back in the canal.

[huckbucket]

Only if it’s northern NJ. Downstate is a whole ‘ other deal I think. You gotta reverse it for NJ, right?

You mean southern NY?

[gravitylover]

So where's the line for southern NY, 17 and 287? I think we need to determine the right terminology before we can come up with the upstate answer.

[EWG]

Well for one, we've got to wait until they put the water back in the canal.

With global warming things should get hot enough for that earlier than normal. It'll probably be done freezing around June.

[EWG]

You have to stop confusing terms. Southern NY is too close to Southern Tier. Southern Tier is part of Upstate. See map. It's just a sub region. Mid Hudson is just NYC suburbs - not part of upstate. Capitol Region, Mohawk Valley, and Central NY are all clearly and firmly Upstate along with Southern Tier. Western NY is Ohio. Or Canada. Whatever. No one cares, but it's one of those two. North Country is also disputed - it's either Canada, Northern NY or Upstate, but again no one gives a hoot about the 117,000 cows and 47 people that live there as long as the Adirondacks are open for visitors, so the disagreement is largely academic.



I say it's time to stop the senseless bloodbath and violence and move on from the geography to instead talk about what really makes upstate Upstate. It's not a place as much as a state of mind. Things like the Breakaway Lounge, the #2 dive bar in the Utica area per this definitive list:

https://lite987.com/best-dive-bars-in-the-utica-area/

[BmillsSkier]

That looks like a fantastic place to drink cheap beer.

[Timberridge]

Ranking the dive bars in Utica?
I just got an idea for a Tech Talk thread. "Of all the skis you disliked which one was the best?"