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Northern NY and by this I mean Upstate is like:the 6th child of a king. he doesn't mean much to anyone but himself. he has a lot to offer but is not high enough on the ladder to be up for consideration. he lives by a different set of rules than his higher up brothers and sisters who's liberal views are like a poets dream and have no real stake in reality. Upstate Ny is beautiful. The Adirondack state park acts as a boundary between southern NY and northern NY. The Adirondacks Have some of the most beautiful places man can ever find and they give way to the St. Lawrence river Valley that starts with the up and down land where roads have been carved into hillsides, laying bare the layers of ancient sediments of long ago. this gives way to the relative flat fertile land of the Valley floor and the Great river its self. one of the few northerly flowing river in the world. The St.Lawrence river Miles across, swift and deep. Paradise for fishing anglers, and breath taking for view finders. A beautiful place, but sad. Employment rate is low and average income even worse. A place struggling to survive, but a place that matters not to those in power. Piece by piece, They are taking from us with no thought about we who live here. We the people of Upstate NY do not matter to the Empire State. We don't help in their elections. we are best seen and not heard.
Location: Appalachian New York, Formerly Louisiana
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Sounds like somebody's been visiting the Southern Tier, although Olana is in the Hudson Valley.
Upstate is like East Tennessee ... with fewer varieties of Baptists.
HAHA
I grew up in the southern tier, or as I call it, further Pennsylvania. I have been to east and middle Tennessee a lot as well.
Yes. The southern tier is definitely a lot like eastern Tennessee. It really is. Different accents perhaps, but some people are just as hard to understand.
I grew up in the southern tier, or as I call it, further Pennsylvania. I have been to east and middle Tennessee a lot as well.
Yes. The southern tier is definitely a lot like eastern Tennessee. It really is. Different accents perhaps, but some people are just as hard to understand.
It's also known as "Pennsyltucky" for a lot reasons, not the least of which is how many people from the northern Appalachans (ie, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia) moved to the area beginning in the 1940s to work in the factories. To the folks in the little towns and cities in NW PA, New York cities like Jamestown and Olean still seem like "boom towns". During WW II and until the 1970s, they were even more so.
Location: Appalachian New York, Formerly Louisiana
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It's also known as "Pennsyltucky" for a lot reasons, not the least of which is how many people from the northern Appalachans (ie, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia) moved to the area beginning in the 1940s to work in the factories. To the folks in the little towns and cities in NW PA, New York cities like Jamestown and Olean still seem like "boom towns". During WW II and until the 1970s, they were even more so.
Just a quick correction, those are the central Appalachians (Which also happen to characterize the southern tier on NY). The northern Appalachians are in New England and eastern Canada.
And yeah I remember the term Pennsyltucky. I had family on both sides of the twin tiers so I always felt a part of it.
Fun fact; when I moved here to Louisiana, nobody (outside of a fellow from Pennsylvania who is now a dear friend; happened to move here on the same weekend I did. He recognized some old local slang from the area) knew I was from the north unless I told them. I easily blended in.
Just a quick correction, those are the central Appalachians (Which also happen to characterize the southern tier on NY). The northern Appalachians are in New England and eastern Canada.
And yeah I remember the term Pennsyltucky. I had family on both sides of the twin tiers so I always felt a part of it.
Fun fact; when I moved here to Louisiana, nobody (outside of a fellow from Pennsylvania who is now a dear friend; happened to move here on the same weekend I did. He recognized some old local slang from the area) knew I was from the north unless I told them. I easily blended in.
A lot of people don't realize how much like the South, particularly the Appalachian culture, the Southern Tier is even today. It's much more like the South than it is like the East Coast.
Location: Appalachian New York, Formerly Louisiana
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A lot of people don't realize how much like the South, particularly the Appalachian culture, the Southern Tier is even today. It's much more like the South than it is like the East Coast.
It is. Heck, I remember the first time my aunt took me up to Rochester. We may have been in the same state, only a few hours from home, but MAN was it a different culture all around. I stood out like a sore thumb, according to my aunt (she had lived in Henrietta for a while at this point).
I really felt out of place. The hills were gone, the people were so... frantic! It was like my head was spinning. XD
I remember going to bluegrass festivals in summer and pumpkin festivals in the fall. I miss those things. Louisiana can be really fun, but it is very different here. Hardly anybody here has even had apple cider!
I always disagreed with the idea that the entire northeast is "east coast". Once you get inland it's just as country/small town as the rest of America. Not to mention absolutely beautiful with those ancient mountains.
I always wonder why so many people can't think of the region beyond the Bos-Wash.
It is. Heck, I remember the first time my aunt took me up to Rochester. We may have been in the same state, only a few hours from home, but MAN was it a different culture all around. I stood out like a sore thumb, according to my aunt (she had lived in Henrietta for a while at this point).
I really felt out of place. The hills were gone, the people were so... frantic! It was like my head was spinning. XD
I remember going to bluegrass festivals in summer and pumpkin festivals in the fall. I miss those things. Louisiana can be really fun, but it is very different here. Hardly anybody here has even had apple cider!
I always disagreed with the idea that the entire northeast is "east coast". Once you get inland it's just as country/small town as the rest of America. Not to mention absolutely beautiful with those ancient mountains.
I always wonder why so many people can't think of the region beyond the Bos-Wash.
I agree. I grew up outside of Gowanda, which is "only" about 35 miles south of Buffalo but it was much further away culturally. I lived in Buffalo for 20 years, but I was close enough to come home on weekends. I lived in Albany for 10 years after that, and it made me realize how different the western part of New York, from about Syracuse west, is from the eastern part, and how much the Southern Tier was different still from either. I could never live in/around Albany or Buffalo -- or any really large city -- again.
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