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No it's not. I have heard it used often in the Bay Area.
But it's also very common (to the point of near unanimity in usage) here in the Buffalo area, to say 'the 90', 'the 190/290/990/etc. I guess the residents of the cities in, ahem, 'the' I-95 corridor do things differently.
But it's also very common (to the point of near unanimity in usage) here in the Buffalo area, to say 'the 90', 'the 190/290/990/etc. I guess the residents of the cities in, ahem, 'the' I-95 corridor do things differently.
I've never heard people in Miami or in North Carolina call 95, "The 95". However, I have heard the occasional reference to the 95 corridor, but those are different things.
Correct that the Northeast and Southeast are different culturally, but the Northeast is as different from the Southeast as it is from the West Coast.
Not remotely accruate Connecticut or Massachusetts is significantly more like Oregon or California than Alabama or South Carolina.
For example, NH or Maine are very secular like Riral Washington or Oregon. The Rural South is very much not secular. The Massachusetts, RI And CT have a high foreign born population like Western WA/Oregon. Nashville or New Orleans? Not so much
Metro Boston for example has double the foreign born % as Charlotte despite overall growth being a lot slower
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I've never heard people in Miami or in North Carolina call 95, "The 95". However, I have heard the occasional reference to the 95 corridor, but those are different things.
Correct. I-95 is always called I-95. State Roads are a different story. We do say "the 826", "the 924", "the 408" etc.
Correct. I-95 is always called I-95. State Roads are a different story. We do say "the 826", "the 924", "the 408" etc.
In MA state roads generally have "route" in front of them like "route 27" or "route 2". An exception is where I-95 overlaps route 128: people will often just say "128". For interstates I think just saying the number is most common like "I took 95 to 495". Occasionally you might hear someone articulate the "I" and say "I-95" instead of just "95".
I don't think I've ever heard someone put "the" in front of a state or interstate highway here.
Not remotely accruate Connecticut or Massachusetts is significantly more like Oregon or California than Alabama or South Carolina.
For example, NH or Maine are very secular like Riral Washington or Oregon. The Rural South is very much not secular. The Massachusetts, RI And CT have a high foreign born population like Western WA/Oregon. Nashville or New Orleans? Not so much
Metro Boston for example has double the foreign born % as Charlotte despite overall growth being a lot slower
Is the rural South not secular among the younger generation?
I would like to push back on the idea that the West is significantly more individualistic. While that may be true for the LA fanshion designer or the SF Techie most people in the West that’s just not true. Like Phoenix, LA, SF have huge immigrant populations from Latin American countries that are very family oriented. In addition out side of the superstarvindustries that draw people in around the world like Amazon, Nike, Apple or whatever people are not going to strike it out west as an insurance adjuster. Sacramento, Fresno, Spokane are not a bunch of blow ins from Ohio trying to make it big.
Not remotely accruate Connecticut or Massachusetts is significantly more like Oregon or California than Alabama or South Carolina.
For example, NH or Maine are very secular like Riral Washington or Oregon. The Rural South is very much not secular. The Massachusetts, RI And CT have a high foreign born population like Western WA/Oregon. Nashville or New Orleans? Not so much
Metro Boston for example has double the foreign born % as Charlotte despite overall growth being a lot slower
Um, I don't agree.
My comment was that the NE wasn't culturally like either the West Coast or South East. As much as you can cite some parallels between the NE and the West Coast, I can reference cultural similarities that exist among the East Coast states that have to do with the nature of a provincial cultural foundation that doesn't exist on the West Coast.
In MA state roads generally have "route" in front of them like "route 27" or "route 2". An exception is where I-95 overlaps route 128: people will often just say "128". For interstates I think just saying the number is most common like "I took 95 to 495". Occasionally you might hear someone articulate the "I" and say "I-95" instead of just "95".
I don't think I've ever heard someone put "the" in front of a state or interstate highway here.
Yeah every now and then the "I" is in front but in the Tri-State it's just "95" or "80", for example.
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