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In the case of West New York, it makes sense, since New Jersey is what is west of New York City.
That's a geographical feature that I notice sometimes people from outside the NY area don't understand. New York City is on this little area of land that hangs down from the rest of New York State and sits east of New Jersey (with Long Island going further east than that.)
I work with a couple of people who commute to work by leaving their homes in other New York counties and get to New York City by crossing through New Jersey.
Fishers Island, NY has a CT zip code yet a Suffolk exchange (631 #) and goes to CT schools but is considerd part of Suffolk County Long Island...even though geographically it's closer to CT.
How is this possible? All of FL is eastern time and I'm pretty sure Oregon is either pacific or Mountain so that's more than hour of time...
All of Florida is not in Eastern Time. The Florida panhandle is in central time, the portion directly south of Alabama which is also Central Time. The Apalachicola River is the dividing line between Eastern and Central Time zones in Florida.
The majority of Oregon is in Pacific Time Zone but a county or two in the far eastern part of the state that borders Idaho is in Mountain Time. Thus you could place a call from this part of Oregon, a state that borders the Pacific and talk to someone in Pensacola (or Ft. Walton or Panama City) in a state that borders the Atlantic and only be an hour's time difference between the two.
The part of Oregon under Mountain Time has most of its population living near the Idaho border (the town of Ontario, OR), near Interstate 84, about 55 miles from downtown Boise. It's part of the Boise media market, and the TV channels there are Boise affiliates (as opposed to Portland, which is 375 miles away).
In era of globalization and virtualization, "place" is a more mysterious thing in any economic geography terms
SV's major employers are based in industrial suburbs like Cupertino, MtnVw, etc, not really in SF or SJ and certainly not EastBay
Most of highest paid workers/owners live in leafy suburbs nr these SV offices and drive to office whenever...and a few 1000 yuppies choose to live in certain "cool" parts of SF (though rest of SF is a mockable commie/tourist slum) and do the 35mi drive to SV office for lifestyle reasons....funny how in world's highest tech corridor, many of wealthiest live/work in various suburbs (perhaps visit SF once/mth for a business dinner or for a conference) and work from anywhere/anytime, making whole notion of "city", etc quite Luddite....esp in place that invented mobile computing, etc which has enabled such virtualization, suburbanization, etc to reduce costs via allowing business/taxpayers to work/live in newer, more efficient suburbs (vs costly yuppie/welfare cities) or allowing back offices to be placed in even lower cost/tax places like suburban Dallas, well outside costly CA or NYC
And lots of SV BigTech profits flow through tax-efficient places like Ireland/Switz, etc to legally evade abusive US/CA taxes which merely serve to finance unsustainable welfare states, not pay for smooth roads and other basic utilities....
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