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Jun. 16th, 2003 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beetigerYou can take the New Yorker out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the New Yorker, it seems.
When I was an undergraduate at a liberal arts institution in New Haven, sometimes my friends and I used to take the Metro-North train into The City. Other people, originally from other parts of the country, would be somewhere between confused and offended by our terminology. "We *are* in a city!", they'd complain.
We may have been self-centered and boorish. But, apparently, we weren't alone.
When I was an undergraduate at a liberal arts institution in New Haven, sometimes my friends and I used to take the Metro-North train into The City. Other people, originally from other parts of the country, would be somewhere between confused and offended by our terminology. "We *are* in a city!", they'd complain.
We may have been self-centered and boorish. But, apparently, we weren't alone.
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Date: 2003-06-16 08:44 am (UTC)On the phone a few days ago, I was describing some locations in the Dutchess/Rockland/etc counties in NY as "upstate" to a friend of mine who was raised not far from those areas, and he attempted to correct my geography. He forgot that I was a native New Yawkah, and when I reminded him, he gave up with exasperation in his voice. As you said, you can't take the city of the New Yawkah. :-)