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Cept that, this shows that HUGE fallacy of the term 'upstate' here, which people from NYC use for anywhere above where they feel like it.

Living in Central NY, the Catskills to us are certainly downstate, at least in terms of where we are, and also in terms of people there being much more likely to be like people from NYC. Evereybody but everybody knows that the Catskills is where all the city dwellers go to escape on weekends. I have always been VERY amused to see the traffic jam of cars on NY 17 going north on Friday afternoons, and south on Sundays.

My point is that the majority of people in the region very terribly called 'upstate' are very different thatneach other and cannot all be lumped into this name just at the whim of city-dwellers.Just try telling people in Buffalo that the are the same as those in Liberty or Kerhonkson or Wurtsboro!

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South New Berlin?

Back in the days of WWI, the pronunciation of a couple of towns in New York state was changed from ber-LIN to BURR-lin. New Berlin and South New Berlin are still pronounced the 'wrong' way. Interestingly, SNB is the larger of the two villages.

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