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I think the relevant part of your post is the first sentence. "Eat, work, sleep". What else do most people do most of the time?
I once read an article in the American Journal of Public Health that looked at how people in different age groups spent their leisure time. While the young people said they spent their leisure time doing more active pursuits, when they kept logs, they did much of the same as the elderly, e.g. read a book, take a nap, watch TV, etc. Now that is different ages, not different parts of the country. If you asked young people here what they do, they'd say "climb mountains, go camping, fishing, skiing" (depending on the season). Actually, people in Albany would probably say similar. But they'd probably really be watching TV, reading, etc.
But if you're comparing that broadly, that distinguishing between different regions is meaningless. Taken to the extreme, you could say the basic lifestyle of most developed countries is basically the same. Which it kinda is, but that misses out on a lot of interesting differences.
I did notice that people in the west, particularly younger people did emphasize an interest in the outdoors more. Probably more than they actually do, but some of the extra interest did seem real (and there's some difference in that respect between the Boston area and the NYC area as well). When people report on their leisure time, maybe they won't bother discuss the parts that are the most generic to everyone, such as watching TV.
What I don't get is why people want to shrink the Northeast smaller than it already is. We have people saying that Pittsburgh and Buffalo are Midwestern cities. To that I say, no they aren't. They are solid Northeastern cities that have a Midwestern feel to them. The Northeast is already so small that you can already fit the entire region inside some of our bigger states and still have room to spare.
What I don't get is why people want to shrink the Northeast smaller than it already is. We have people saying that Pittsburgh and Buffalo are Midwestern cities. To that I say, no they aren't. They are solid Northeastern cities that have a Midwestern feel to them. The Northeast is already so small that you can already fit the entire region inside some of our bigger states and still have room to spare.
No one wants to shrink it, we just don't want to expand it to include states that are not part of the northeastern region.
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The Census Bureau has defined the Northeast region as comprising nine states: the New England states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont; and the Mid-Atlantic states of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
What I don't get is why people want to shrink the Northeast smaller than it already is. We have people saying that Pittsburgh and Buffalo are Midwestern cities. To that I say, no they aren't. They are solid Northeastern cities that have a Midwestern feel to them. The Northeast is already so small that you can already fit the entire region inside some of our bigger states and still have room to spare.
Buffalo does have a Midwestern feel - it's not too dissimilar from Cleveland, and shares similarities with all the other Great Lakes cities. But there's really nothing particularly Midwestern about Pittsburgh. Despite Cleveland being only a two-hour drive away, the two cities look nothing alike, and the natives sound nothing alike. It's a city which has always "looked east" towards Philly and the rest of the Eastern Seaboard, rather than looking west towards Chicago. The only Midwestern cities with some similarities are Cleveland and Saint Louis, both for geographic and cultural reasons.
I don't think Buffalo really "looks west" to Chicago either. But obviously there are similarities between Buffalo and Cleveland, given their proximity to each other.
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