Comments on: New York, New York http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:00:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jen http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-6642 Jen Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:16:17 +0000 http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/#comment-6642 I'm thinking that you and I live frighteningly close to one another because I know all about thrilling nights out at the Crowne Plaza. By the way, hi! I've never commented before, but I've seen you in The Working Closet and finally linked to you from Stara's blog. I’m thinking that you and I live frighteningly close to one another because I know all about thrilling nights out at the Crowne Plaza.
By the way, hi! I’ve never commented before, but I’ve seen you in The Working Closet and finally linked to you from Stara’s blog.

]]> By: anne http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-6638 anne Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:00:07 +0000 http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/#comment-6638 p.s. I live in Ulster county, just to give you some reference. p.s. I live in Ulster county, just to give you some reference.

]]> By: anne http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-6637 anne Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:57:00 +0000 http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/#comment-6637 I'm a fairly recent transplant to NY (by way of Ohio and then New England). I live in the Hudson Valley, and I used to find it so odd that everyone knew the county they lived in. I only knew my own county in Ohio, and never really figured out my county in NH. Now I find myself making statements and generalizations about counties as if I'd been doing it all my life! I also find the definition of "upstate NY" very strange. It seems to me that anything north of Westchester Co. is upstate, which is really quite silly. Maybe NYC, Westchester, and Long Island should secede? <strong>The thing about counties is funny because where you and I would know of Westchester, Kings, Suffolk and Nassau but normally if I ask someone from Kings county about Jefferson County they look at me like I have 9 heads and a thumb where my eyeball should be. </strong> I’m a fairly recent transplant to NY (by way of Ohio and then New England). I live in the Hudson Valley, and I used to find it so odd that everyone knew the county they lived in. I only knew my own county in Ohio, and never really figured out my county in NH. Now I find myself making statements and generalizations about counties as if I’d been doing it all my life! I also find the definition of “upstate NY” very strange. It seems to me that anything north of Westchester Co. is upstate, which is really quite silly. Maybe NYC, Westchester, and Long Island should secede?

The thing about counties is funny because where you and I would know of Westchester, Kings, Suffolk and Nassau but normally if I ask someone from Kings county about Jefferson County they look at me like I have 9 heads and a thumb where my eyeball should be.

]]> By: metalia http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-6616 metalia Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:56:31 +0000 http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/#comment-6616 Oh, this is all so true. (Now why don't you come back downstate soon so we can hit up the Anthropologie at 30 Rock?) Oh, this is all so true. (Now why don’t you come back downstate soon so we can hit up the Anthropologie at 30 Rock?)

]]> By: Camels & Chocolate http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-6610 Camels & Chocolate Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:05:32 +0000 http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/#comment-6610 OMG, I LOVE the Anthropologie at 30 Rock. The sales floor kicks ass, too. Next time I make it back NYC, you know where to find me. OMG, I LOVE the Anthropologie at 30 Rock. The sales floor kicks ass, too. Next time I make it back NYC, you know where to find me.

]]> By: Miss W http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-6609 Miss W Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:49:22 +0000 http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/#comment-6609 Funny...I grew up in the midwest and was guilty of assuming that all NY was the city. And then one day I met a nice formerly-Jewish boy from Sullivan County. We got married and moved to Poughkeepsie, but spent much time on the Hudson line into the city. And then we were sick of Poughkeepsie and his commute to Westchester every day. So we moved to Rochester. Which, seriously...once you get as far north as Kingston, it sort of ceases to be the same state. This far west? Not even close to the similar to downstate! Funny…I grew up in the midwest and was guilty of assuming that all NY was the city. And then one day I met a nice formerly-Jewish boy from Sullivan County. We got married and moved to Poughkeepsie, but spent much time on the Hudson line into the city. And then we were sick of Poughkeepsie and his commute to Westchester every day. So we moved to Rochester. Which, seriously…once you get as far north as Kingston, it sort of ceases to be the same state. This far west? Not even close to the similar to downstate!

]]> By: Bone http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-6608 Bone Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:29:53 +0000 http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/#comment-6608 I want a Watertown Red & Black t-shirt now. Thanks. I want a Watertown Red & Black t-shirt now.

Thanks.

]]> By: nopasanada http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-6607 nopasanada Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:04:17 +0000 http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/#comment-6607 I'm just now realizing that all of this makes very little sense if you aren't from New York. Because only New Yorkers understand that being forced to go further upstate, in February, is probably a recipe for disaster. But the City in February is perfectly fine. Also, the junior Senator from Illinois once asked me where I was from and I said Upstate NY. His exact reply was "It's Cooooold up there". To which I replied "Chicago isn't exactly tropical". And that is my junior Senator from Illinois story. The end. I’m just now realizing that all of this makes very little sense if you aren’t from New York. Because only New Yorkers understand that being forced to go further upstate, in February, is probably a recipe for disaster. But the City in February is perfectly fine.

Also, the junior Senator from Illinois once asked me where I was from and I said Upstate NY. His exact reply was “It’s Cooooold up there”. To which I replied “Chicago isn’t exactly tropical”. And that is my junior Senator from Illinois story. The end.

]]> By: TheSpectrum http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-6604 TheSpectrum Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:51:03 +0000 http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/#comment-6604 Word to this whole post. I grew up on LI too, went to college in Buffalo and dated a boy in Watertown. "I half expected for someone with a banjo to come busting out of the snow covered trees." Wow. Just. Yeah. That is a log cabin town if I've ever seen one. Pretty in the summer though. ~Laura Word to this whole post. I grew up on LI too, went to college in Buffalo and dated a boy in Watertown. “I half expected for someone with a banjo to come busting out of the snow covered trees.” Wow. Just. Yeah. That is a log cabin town if I’ve ever seen one. Pretty in the summer though.

~Laura

]]> By: kat http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/comment-page-1/#comment-6602 kat Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:08:28 +0000 http://nopasanada.org/2008/02/22/new-york-new-york/#comment-6602 Watertown is pretty dismal. I grew up on the western side of the state, but it took me years before I accepted calling it "upstate". As an "upstater", it is also my duty to complain about a lack of Wegmans in the capital district. Watertown is pretty dismal. I grew up on the western side of the state, but it took me years before I accepted calling it “upstate”. As an “upstater”, it is also my duty to complain about a lack of Wegmans in the capital district.

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