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jeweynougat t1_jdvmisx wrote

There are things that are unique to cities over their suburbs or exurbs. People living in HoCo probably don’t deal with many of the challenges of city life. It isn’t just old bay. I say this gently as the person from your example: I grew up in Westchester County, NY. When I came to college in Baltimore I told people I was from NY, which I knew they’d interpret as the city because if I said Westchester they wouldn’t know where that even was necessarily. But I’d never have told someone from Manhattan or the Bronx I was from NY. My life was nothing like theirs even if we liked the same teams and food. And that’s fine! It’s fine to be from where you’re from even if it’s a suburb or a county and not a city.

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BlubberyGuy OP t1_jdvncmk wrote

im dealing with the opposite of you lol, i go to a college in ny with a lot of westchester kids

hoco is to bmore what westchester is to ny, its close but not really the city

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jeweynougat t1_jdvopk9 wrote

Too funny! I have no problem owning Westchester and I’m proud to be from there. I only said NY because people in Baltimore didn’t know that area. I never felt like a city kid, even if I hung out in the city all the time, and I wouldn’t have wanted people to think I was someone I am not. Suburbs and cities really are different.

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DfcukinLite t1_jdvr9ol wrote

People know Westchester, NY… isn’t not some random nowheresville place.

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jeweynougat t1_jdvw7e2 wrote

I went to college 30 years ago. Perhaps it was less well-known then. I can only tell you, if I said that, I'd get blank looks. I learned quickly to say "metro NY" or NY.

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DfcukinLite t1_jdvxo48 wrote

I can see people confusing it with West Chester PA. But theres at lot of transplants and college students in MD from Westchester NY now that people are familiar.

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