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katlupe said:
New York state has a lot of land, lakes, rivers, agriculture and forests. NY city is only a small part of it.
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That's true of all states in the US. We tend to identify them by certain population centers or stereotypes, but most have very diverse geographies and densities.

I'm from the northeast US, and my husband was born and raised in Los Angeles. In the early 1980s I brought him east (for a NJ family wedding) for the first time. He was staggered at how beautiful (and rural) much of NY and NJ were. I hadn't realized that he'd associated NYC as being representative of all of NY, and images of belching factory smokestacks as the whole of NJ.

On the other hand, after arriving at JFK airport our next stop was the huge bus station at NYC's Port Authority where we bought tickets for a NJ bus. Because we were a couple of hours early we stopped at a lunch counter for a bite. As departure time neared I realized we didn't take notice of the platform number to catch the bus. By then there was a long line of commuters waiting to buy tickets.

We approached the next person in line and started to explain our plight: we were from out of town and just arrived, didn't need to buy tickets because we did that earlier - See, here are the tickets - and showed them. We just need to get the platform number, and gee we're so sorry but is there any way we could possibly cut in line to learn that info because the bus was leaving soon, yada yada.

The guy stares at us like we just dropped down from Mars, screws up his face, and in a decidedly unpleasant tone, says, "So who's stoppin' ya?"

As we walked to the window, under my breath I whispered to my relatively new husband, "Welcome to New York."
 
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StarSong said:
That's true of all states in the US. We tend to identify them by certain population centers or stereotypes, but most have very diverse geographies and densities.

I'm from the northeast US, and my husband was born and raised in Los Angeles. In the early 1980s I brought him east for a NJ family wedding for the first time. He was staggered at how beautiful (and rural) much of NY and NJ were. I hadn't realized that he'd associated NYC as being representative of all of NY, and images of belching factory smokestacks as the whole of NJ.

On the other hand, after arriving at JFK airport our next stop was the huge bus station at NYC's Port Authority where we bought tickets for a NJ bus. Because we were a couple of hours early we stopped at a lunch counter for a bite. As departure time neared I realized we didn't take notice of the platform number to catch the bus. By then there was a long line of commuters waiting to buy tickets.

We approached the next person in line and started to explain our plight: we were from out of town and just arrived, didn't need to buy tickets because we did that earlier - See, here are the tickets - and showed them. We just need to get the platform number, and gee we're so sorry but is there any way we could possibly cut in line to learn that info because the bus was leaving soon, yada yada.

The guy stares at us like we just dropped down from Mars, screws up his face, and in a decidedly unpleasant tone, says, "So who's stoppin' ya?"

As we walked to the window, under my breath I whispered to my relatively new husband, "Welcome to New York."
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Funny how we picture things to be in other places....

I remember the first time that I learned that there were Dairy Farms on Long Island, NY ....
I was a dumb, naive, blown-away kid! ..:ROFLMAO:
 
gloria said:
I'm in Arroyo Grande, California its on the central coast. I do not know how to post that under my picture ,
do I read any instructions?
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A lady friend of mine has her clothing store/boutique in Arroyo Grande...I'm here in the central valley.
About 2 1/2-3 hrs from you.

Want to get to Pismo, when the weather warms up.
 
I am from Chatham, otherwise known as the Crow Capital of Canada, well deserved title as I observe at least 30 of them on the road outside the house. Located between the big cities of Windsor and London Ontario.
 
Lee said:
I am from Chatham, otherwise known as the Crow Capital of Canada, well deserved title as I observe at least 30 of them on the road outside the house. Located between the big cities of Windsor and London Ontario.
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all those names are town surrounding LOndon England... chatham is a naval base here and where my ex husband did his naval training..other side of London from me... Windsor of course as you know is where the castle is and where Harry and Meghan got married, and of course London ... the capital
 
hollydolly said:
all those names are town surrounding LOndon England... chatham is a naval base here and where my ex husband did his naval training..other side of London from me... Windsor of course as you know is where the castle is and where Harry and Meghan got married, and of course London ... the capital
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Holly, not only the cities, but the park I live in has all the streets named after English landmarks, battles, and such.
 
English (and many other) settlers were spectacularly unimaginative when it came to naming places in their new homeland. Glad some of the Native American names stuck.
 
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