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Originally Posted by iheartthed
This very much depends. I live very close to Manhattan in an environment that most people could not differentiate from Manhattan, but it would be extremely misleading for me to tell people I live in Manhattan. Likewise, it would be very misleading for someone who lives just outside of New York City to say that they live in New York City. This would be true for a number of other cities too, although maybe not necessarily Denver.
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Yeah I'd say that's probably the biggest difference - whether it's just an administrative boundary or a physical boundary. Manhattan is a land form separated from other land by physical barriers so it makes sense to exclude anything beyond that boundary. But with people living near NYC, I don't see any issue with them saying they're from NYC when speaking to people from far enough away not to know the difference. NJ and LI have their own well established identities, so if they lived near NYC in either place, most people would recognize the terms NJ or LI so there's no need to round them into NYC. But someone from say, Yonkers, it would make the most sense to just say NYC when speaking to anyone outside the US NE.
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