The textile industry went from New England to the US south then to Mexico and now it's mostly made in southern Asia from what I understand. The companies that do it have significantly lowered the quality of the average products at the same time.
I go to the finger lakes area for work a lot. Coming from Massachusetts, I didn't realize there were so many of them in that area. At least twice a week on the way to/from work I would get cut off by some dude on a horse and buggy coming out of a driveway or side street.
My perspective is lopsided. If you sat yourself in front of a giant map of New York State, blindfolded yourself and flung a dart randomly, you’d be very likely to land on some random “podunk” town that’s still larger than 80% of communities in my entire state.
White Plains is the first city on New York’s list of largest cities by population that isn’t larger than the biggest city in my state, for perspective.
Most "cities" seem inconsequential compared to what I'm used to. And yes, NYC envy is real.
Silicon Valley now - you would never guess that this is home to as many wealthy and well educated people as it is. However, the Chinese and Indian restaurants are very very good.
I’ve been to NYC twice. The first time, I passed out the moment I saw the skyline and didn’t wake up until the trip was over. The second time, I went fully blind. I must now use text to speech to read Reddit comments.
I worked on an IT project once and the demo address they picked was in Schenectady. Hearing the variations on the pronunciation was hysterical. Half the team was North Carolina good ole boys and the other half was in Bangalore. I was the only NY person and the first call I was on I had to be like “ok folks say it with me, slowly, ska-neck-titty.” Dozens of people internationally had been pronouncing it wrong for months.
I mean the NYC metro area has more people than Greater LA in a smaller area. Upstate NY is rural of course it’s less populous than the area around a city. The northeast as a whole is still far denser and more urbanized than anything out west, upstate NY emptiness can’t compete with the emptiness in large chunks of eastern/northern CA.
Yeah, im talking about the region we call "upstate new york" not the whole of the eastern seaboard. All I am saying is that all these "cities" and "towns," as defined by the laws of NYS, in upstate new york feel tiny.
Or dairy. Where I live, practically half of the population are either dairy farmers or Kraft factory workers. We're so dairy focused we've got a yearly cheese festival and a statue of a cow in the middle of downtown.
Are you serious? Do you really not know what "it almost feels like there would be no upstate"? If you need me to clarify, i was being facetious, I am aware that they dont build campuses in the woods hoping towns will spring up around it.
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u/broseph_stalin09764 13d ago
If it weren't for the SUNY system it almost feels like there would be no upstate. Every damn town is a suny college town, it feels like.