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Any ideas? For example
Chicago has Chicagoland
Los Angeles has Los Angeles as an umbrella term or simply the "Southland"
San Francisco has "The Bay Area"
These labels help to give a more cohesive relationship for our entire region, which is the largest in America at close to 23 million people.
My county in central New Jersey is part of the New York Metropolitan Area. But if I go on long trips, I have to say I'm from New Jersey or Central New Jersey. When I tell them about trips I take into the city for whatever reason they say "what city"? New Jersey?. I then have to explain that Northern and Central New Jersey are suburbs of New York City. They still don't get it. I tell them that the hudson river is what separates Manhattan from New Jersey. They still seem puzzled.
So anyone have any ideas that would appease New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Might as well add Pennsylvania in there to now. Here are some ideas of mine, tell me what you think.
"Empire Region"
"The Empire"
"New York" in general
New York Metro
Tri-State area (although there are many other regions with this label)
It's tough to get all 4 states to agree to someting with this....
how about 'new york and the surrounding lesser states' ?
Smiles or not......................... This is how provincial NYC truly feels.
Leave the name the way it is. Who cares at the end of the day. There is no true unity anyway.
It's tough to get all 4 states to agree to someting with this....
What this points up is a problem that New Jersey has had for well over a century. It's the "State Without an Identity," being wedged in between two large cities and their metropolitan areas. Unfortunately, coming to the New York City forum and asking for help isn't the right move. We can live with either Tri-State Area or New York Metropolitan Area.
Also keep in mind that many areas don't straddle multiple states. In your example, only Chicago does, and barely at that. Part of it is that states are for the most part (except for NY and PA ironically) much smaller in the Northeast than in the rest of the country. Some COUNTIES in California are bigger than NJ, CT, DE, or RI.
Just say New Jersey, everyone knows New Jersey. Newark and Edison have their own classification, Trenton too, otherwise say Jersey shore, or south jersey, nothing wrong with saying central jersey neither, if they ask.
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