19 Ways You Know You're From Upstate New York
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19 Ways You Know You're From Upstate New York

It's pretty much in your blood.

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19 Ways You Know You're From Upstate New York

1. When you call places south of Albany "downstate," or if the word downstate is in your vocabulary to start.

2. The first place you think of to get coffee from is Stewart's, not Starbucks...grande what?


3. When people correct the way you say your As. I get it.

4. You don't understand why long islanders are obsessed with carbs, or any of their crappy food you'll never try.

5. When "the city" is a place you would never consider living.

6. The only beaches you need are the ones in the ADKS.

7. When "Red-Neck Yacht Club" is a song all your friends know, it's like an anthem in the summer and you've probably done this in the summer.

8. Your school field trips during elementary school probably had Adirondack in the title, and there were probably goats or donkeys involved. Oh the learning.

9. You're the only one in your friend group that can't smell the cow manure in the air that everyone is tweeting about.

10. Being late to something because there was a tractor in front of you is normal, and a valid excuse.

11. You like ketchup AND mustard on your burgers.

12. A fun date includes beer and four wheelers, not heels and wine.

13. Your grandma lives around the corner, and your aunts and uncles are just up the road.

14. Having corn fields behind your house is normal.

15. You were confused why girls were wearing heels to bars when you got to college.

16. And your older brother has probably shot some sort of animal in your back yard.

17. You probably have more than four guy friends who drive lifted a truck and chew tobacco.

18. And they wear Browning belt buckles on the reg and their hands usually look dirty.

19. Seeing a girl on campus wearing something camo makes you want to introduce yourself, you'd probably be good friends.

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