The Definitive Solution to the Upstate NY Question
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Ripitz
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Maybe they are hardcore and ski until last chair?
Harvey
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Fair enough.
The two times I skied until last chair at Belle, we've gone to Peekamoose arriving about 4:30. Wait 30 mins for them to open, and then when they let us in they told us they weren't really ready yet, so we left. (Long ride home.)
How's the food?
The two times I skied until last chair at Belle, we've gone to Peekamoose arriving about 4:30. Wait 30 mins for them to open, and then when they let us in they told us they weren't really ready yet, so we left. (Long ride home.)
How's the food?
Harvey
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What is a cultural region? Accent?
Milo Maltbie
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At one time I spent a lot of time traveling around Western NY, Ohio and Indiana. Rochester was definitely in the Midwest. The most obvious clue was that in the morning you couldn't get any kind of hard roll or bagel or any kind of pastry that wasn't covered with sticky sugar icing. It totally disrupted my morning routine.
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Warp daddy
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Not sure about Roch Cha cha ' BUT BUFFALO is definitely "attitudinally " aligned more closely with the Midwest
Campgottagopee
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There's also the soda vs pop thing
Brownski
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You know what? I may have looked at your map and jumped to a conclusion. It looks very much like a map of American Linguistic regions I’ve seen before. Western New York is indeed part of the northern Midwest group- folks that call soda pop and say “eh“ and stuff.
North Merica has 9 nations according to the author but it was a few decades ago. Things could’ve changed, allegedly.
174 - The Nine Nations of North America
Forget about the United States of America, forget about Canada and about Mexico. North America might be divided into these three states, but the northern half of the American continent […]
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