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

[soobsession]

when you always ask "why don't we have no school?" and it only snowed 1/2 a cm.

when you don't glance twice at a deer, fox, squirrel, turtle, etc. or when your neighbor pets the deer (you only think about deer ticks and hope that she won't get lyme disease)

[Phenylethylamine]

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".

[SOninja]

You know you were in _______ too long when you still know the zipcodes of your friends, 4 years after moving away.
(19111, 19046, 19027 etc)

[sweetcoop]

You know you've been in Michigan too long when you find it normal to have snow, then the next day temps in the 70's.
When someone asks where you live and you show them by pointing to your hand.
When you know how to pronounce "Mackinac" (I doubt any of you can do this one)
When you think that it's normal for a road to be redone once a year.

Also, I heard one a while ago that said that "You know you've been in Michigan too long when you call a soda 'pop'". Is that really not normal?

the first one is tru for colorado also i mean we had -5 one day and 70 the next and it was baseball season
oh
you know you have been in colorado too long when playing baseball you expect to pratice in the snow or in you school gym

[fmtiger124]

You know you've been in Michigan too long when you find it normal to have snow, then the next day temps in the 70's.
When someone asks where you live and you show them by pointing to your hand.
When you know how to pronounce "Mackinac" (I doubt any of you can do this one)
When you think that it's normal for a road to be redone once a year.

Also, I heard one a while ago that said that "You know you've been in Michigan too long when you call a soda 'pop'". Is that really not normal?

the first one is tru for colorado also i mean we had -5 one day and 70 the next and it was baseball season
oh
you know you have been in colorado too long when playing baseball you expect to pratice in the snow or in you school gym

baseball in the snow??? awesome
I would think football and soccer in the snow would be the most fun though

[andrewwski]

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.

[fmtiger124]

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.

dude I'm in a suburb of Syracuse and no one says pop absolutely no one
It's always Soda

[andrewwski]

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/

[dudeincolorado]

Interesting.... Colorado says pop?? Sigh. I call it soda

[fmtiger124]

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