I hear it in movies so the time. We’re going upstate. I went upstate. Etc

I never hear downstate, or similar. Does it just mean going north?

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    8 months ago

    New York the state or NYC?

    Edit: I am terribly sorry for not knwing all citiies and to what state and where they belong on the us map as someone not from North America… 🙄

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          In my experience people in the Northeast US pretty much never refer to New York City as just ‘New York’. New York will mean the state, they will say ‘the city’ or ‘NYC’ to differentiate from the state. Or they will say upstate to mean the rest of the state outside of NYC metro area.