Stop Saying Upstate New York.
I often run into people all over the city and elsewhere, and I'm interested to know where they're from. In fact I persist even in the face of a bit of resistance, out of sincere curiosity. For me, like many I imagine, New York City, and by extension the world is like a big ole pot of gumbo, and I'm interesting in its ingredients.
Particular I find to be the case of many I meet, who are from New York, but outside of the Boroughs, an unworthy of mentioning semi-sort-of inferiority complex, in regards their point of origin. However after a bit of prodding and pep-talking, they usually open and shoulder right up about their hometowns.
Of course, relatively speaking, with such a well and widely known big brother like New York City. Some feel their hailing understandably eclipsed by such a luminous city like The Big Apple. However there are many quaint and interesting cities, towns and villages etc., in New York, and throughout the country, world, and the seven or so seas.
So I find lumping them all into one juggernautical demarcation, as "Upstate New York" a colossal oversight. After all none of us can trace our roots for very long here in NYC. We are an amalgam, and in fact that is a major part of The City's acclaim, lore/lure, and identity.
Interestingly people who are from The Boroughs, with the exception of maybe Staten Island, have no reticence of specifying their neighborhood, nickname and all.
New York City attracts some of the most inspiring and aspiring minds and personalities from all over the world.
So don't be timid about your town, wherever it may be. And please, please stop saying just "Upstate New York. "That's a lot of ground to cover. New York ain't always proper.
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