You're from Upstate NY if you can say the sentence "take Route 7 to Route 787 to Route 87 which is both the Northway and the Thruway then head South on the Northway but get off before you get to the Thruway" and mean it.
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Some will realize that these instructions will lead you from Troy to anywhere from Cohoes to Rensselaer to Albany.
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Cohoes is pronounced "cuh-HOES" and Rensselaer is pronounced "RENN-slur" if you're talking about Rensselaer but pronounced "renn-suh-LEER" if you're talking about Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute which is not in Rensselaer.
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If you go too far heading South on the Northway and you end up on the Thruway you might end up in Colonie which is pronounced "cuh-loh-NEEE" and there's nothing good there.
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Schenectady is pronounced exactly as it's spelled.
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upstate is everything north of 59th
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*stares in RPI grad*
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Thats in Quebec right?
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As someone in the Rochester area, there seems to be SUCH a variety of ways people split the maps. Am I in WNY or CNY? Depends who you ask. Where does upstate end? My dad put Albany in downstate. We're also in the Finger Lakes region even though we're not near a Finger Lake.
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Drives me up a wall sometimes.
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Being from
#roc, I feel like we are upstate, western, finger lakes and sometimes even central NY all at the same time.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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#4 is close but they forgot about long island
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