Timothy Lochner

Hey US, how long are you going to keep calling it "new" York? You think anyone outside the UK knows where the original York even is?

There are a lot of “new”s throughout the east coast. I have been aware of where York is since I was probably a teenager. Anytime I see a “new” I assume it’s referring to a city or country in Europe because that’s the pattern.

TBH Jersey was weird to me. I didn’t know it was an island to UK’s south.

Even when you do know about the Channel Islands, why someone would go "yes, this part of a vast continent is just like the tiny island I was born that is nothing like here" is one of life's mysteries.

My understanding is that it’s normally people from one land settled America and called places “New <where they came from>”. In Jersey’s case, New Jersey was given to the governor of Jersey by King Charles. It’s always something like that.

Not always though. There’s a town in Michigan just called Holland. Lots of Dutch origin Americans there.