Posted Jun 3, 2026, 3:38 AM
|
 |
Volatile Pacivist
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Nova Scotia
Posts: 11,100
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by iheartthed
A person from Yonkers might say they are from New York, but they likely don't claim to be from NYC. If a person follows up and asks a Yonkersite if they are from NYC, the Yonkersite would probably clarify that Yonkers is just outside of it.
Certain cities have pretty strict definitions of what it means to be from that place. I don't think it's a Rust Belt thing, though. Rust Belters like Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis seem to have relatively flexible rules about when you can describe yourself as being from those cities. On the other hand, places like NYC, Detroit, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, etc., have pretty rigid rules. NYC is by far the most rigid about it.
|
To be clear, i wasn't commenting on whether or not they would say they were from NYC. I have no idea. I was just saying that, when speaking to someone from outside the region, there wouldn't be anything unreasonable about saying it.
__________________
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
Don't ask people not to debate a topic. Just stop making debatable assertions. Problem solved.
|
Threaded Mode