City most associated with Upstate NY (best, people, cons, south)
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Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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In following with the association threads, does Buffalo dominate the Upstate NY hierarchy of cities? Or does Albany's state government function come to mind? Perhaps Rochester's former corporate legacy? Syracuse University? Which Upstate NY do you think of as the best association with Upstate NY?
Nice, I was thinking of doing this one too. Personally, Utica, I have a couple friends from there, and also it's pretty centrally located and close to the state's premier natural feature, the Adirondacks.
Poughkeepsie is barely upstate and has too much downstate influence to really be associated with most of the I-90 cities. And Western NY is basically just another division of upstate, like the southern tier (Binghamton/Corning/Elmira/Ithaca), Central NY (Syracuse/Utica/Rome), the mid-Hudson valley (Poughkeepsie/Kingston/Hudson), the capital region (Albany/Troy/Schenectady/Saratoga), and the far north (Plattsburgh/Saranac Lake/Watertown). A possible spinoff thread would be to explain which of those regions is best represented as "Upstate NY", and I'd say that all of them are in a pretty equal manner. I'd cast my vote towards Albany since sometimes, NYC media uses "upstate" regarding state government.
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Not to a down stater...I went to school in Ithaca and considered that upstate.
I will defer to Albany, as the state capital.
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Originally Posted by Turnerbro
Syracuse. Buffalo and Rochester are western New York not upstate New York.
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