You know you've been in [state/region/city] to long when...

[gneissisnice]

No. Pop in YOUR part of NY may be rare. The western half of the state calls it pop though.

Interesting, I've never heard anyone from NY call it pop. It's certainly soda on Long Island.


I'm not sure if anyone's said this here before, but you know you've been on Long Island too long when you think of anything north/west of Manhattan as "upstate".

Anywhere from say Syracuse west it's definitely pop. If you say "soda" here in Buffalo everyone knows you're an outsider.

NYC might as well be a separate entity from the rest of the state.

NYC and Long Island. No one on Long Island says pop.
Wait, you said that already. Whatever, too late, i dont feel like not posting this.
And yes, anything connected to the continent is "upstate". Manhattan and Long Island= not upstate.

[andrewwski]

That's the NYC version of "upstate." A lot of the rest of the state uses "upstate" to refer to Watertown and north (Adirondacks, etc). We prefer to refer to the state by the region - Western New York, Central New York, Capital Region, Southern Tier, etc.

If you walk through Buffalo and say you're in "Upstate New York" people are going to give you weird looks.

Syracuse is probably right on the edge. Once you start getting into the Finger Lakes and Rochester area it's pop.

Seems to be indicated by this map as well.

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/0 ... -soda-map/

the county Syracuse is in(onodaga county) is in the 80-100% "soda" catagory
No one says pop absolutely no one unless your not from around here

But look how abrupt the changeover is - goes from strong "soda" to strong "pop" territory. So "around here" is relative - someone from Rochester is only a little over an hour away, but they'll most likely say "pop."

[EastStroudsburg13]

It's definitely soda around here. You don't hear anyone really say "pop". Once in a while someone will say "soda pop" but that's not frequent.

[SOninja]

I say soda!~
I think pop is an awesomer word than soda. i'm gonna start using it now.

[fmtiger124]

how accurate and reliable is that "soda or pop" map anyway?
How'd they get data?
surveys id guess

[rocketman1555]

how accurate and reliable is that "soda or pop" map anyway?
How'd they get data?
surveys id guess

or they stood in restaurants and gas stations or street corners all across the US listening to what people asked for when they wanted a carbonated beverage (pop)

[sweetcoop]

you know you have lived in BV to long when you look forward to the school year cause that is when all the tourist leave

[timmoose1]

You know you've been in Texas too long when you wake up to 12 gauge shots and get hungry

[Efesa]

Revival Time!
You know you've been in California too long when you prefer corona to not-corona due to the heat

[RiverWalker88]

You know you've been in the Land of Enchantment too long when you are amazed by high flow rate rivers (and are used to the tiny "rivers").