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#8. Corpus Christi - Pop 317,000. Have a trip planned for Mustang Island later this year.
For all the Texans that haven't been to El Paso it's a great place to check out and very different for all the other large Texas cities, but it's one of those cities that you sort of just pass through unless your visiting the great national parks close by.
Corpus is an easy one to miss, the main highway goes through Robstown, and you'd need a special reason to turn off and make the 20 mile side trip.
My mom's side of the family hails between Buffalo and Rochester. Rural New Yorkers, and they all have a common bond: they innately despise down-staters and have no desire to travel to New York City. They all harbor innate distrust of New York City residents, and believe they carry them financially with their tax dollars.
Wow, that's crazy given how the balance of payments has been a pretty large net transfer with state spending versus state tax receipts discrepancies from downstate to upstate for a long while.
My mom's side of the family hails between Buffalo and Rochester. Rural New Yorkers, and they all have a common bond: they innately despise down-staters and have no desire to travel to New York City. They all harbor innate distrust of New York City residents, and believe they carry them financially with their tax dollars.
As a native Rochesterian, this is a prevailing sentiment that never quite resonated with me. Upstaters seem to have this blind hatred towards New York City despite many of them never having stepped foot in the city. Part of it could be an inferiority complex. Upstaters like to call NYC an overcrowded, dirty, dangerous cesspool. Big cities aren’t for everyone. Yet ironically, while I realize the Big Apple has worsened since the onset of the pandemic, every single Upstate city is in objectively worse shape than NYC. Economically many are in shambles. Crime rates significantly surpass those in the big city. People are moving down South in droves. Development is stagnant or nonexistent. Wages are weak. Good jobs are fleeting.
Perhaps it’s a bit of resentment. As OyCrumbler said above, Downstate pays more in taxes that get funneled north. Upstaters believe the misconception that the opposite is true.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Upstate New York. The most beautiful land on the East Coast exists there, in my humble opinion. Even the struggling cities are still charming places full of good people, great food and plenty to do. I just wish more would appreciate what the entire state has to offer.
I take it that many Upstaters take this as a point-of-pride?
I can certainly understand the animosity; but come on who isn't at least a little bit curious to see NYC for themselves?
I visited NYC for the first time when I was in my 20s. Once I'd seen it, I had no desire to go back. However, by unexpected chance I ended up there again in 2019. Again, I have no desire to return.
I wouldn't say I take pride in it and there is certainly no animosity. I just don't like crowds lol.
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