Anybody here from NY?
 

I'm headed out that way in next month or two and wanted to see if anyone there to hook up for a drink :)

Would that be New York City?

Yeah, the state of New York is kinda big :D

Got some friends in Brooklyn! |headbang|

A lot of people that don't live in NYS think the city is close to everyone :) I once had a company buy me a plane ticket for an interview. They made the reservation for NYC. I had to tell them it would take me longer to get to the airport than to fly out of the country :)

I'm another Upstater like Jim and Greenguy. I'm 3-4 hours away from the smelly apple. Outside of military service and brief employment in Japan, I have lived in New York state all of my life, but I've spent more time in Montreal than in NYC. NYC sucks. It's full of New Yorkers.

Actually, NYC is full of people like Tommy :D

you guys are just jelous

drive upstate and what do you see....... pickup trucks with gun racks
washing machines on the lawn and cows

Now that sounds like my kind of folk. Tommy, are you sure were not heading south.

I am from upstate NY about 8 hours away like GG but i would love to see NYC never been their. :)

Chop...... drive around up there and you would think you were in missippi

Yell, people travel from all over the world to see NYC, I am shocked at you

I know the wife and i allways wanted to go just never had the chance.

GG and the Bitch said you are going to have us down. :D

My county is Blue. Jim's, on the other hand, is rather Red :D

although in fairness upstate does have a lot to offer

a couple times a week I think to myself I should have moved upstate

I have cousins in Syracuse.
Never been there... what is Syracuse like?

Forgive my ignorance - but what exactly is 'upstate' ?

"upstate" is anything above New York City & a term that people in NYC use. Jim lives in Central New York & I live in Western New York. I can't stand it when they refer to Buffalo as "upstate" |banghead|

maybe i should change my location to the southern tier of ny....lol

A couple of times a week I think I should move to Florida.

I guess I'm "upstate" too..One the border of Rockland/Orange counties about 40 minutes from westchester..
is westchester "upstate" too??
And yes, we have a pick-up truck..no gun rack tho..a laptop rack for wardriving..
And we also have a Jeep..perfect for sneaking up on them thar cows for some cow-tippping fun.

|dizzy|

To me, "upstate" stops a couple miles west of Albany :D

cows

lol Tommy.

I've never been to NYC. It just sounds like Chicago except with more crazy people. :D

Upstate.. |escape| |couch|

I could`nt agree more!

I tease greeny about updsate because its a good way to annoy him

we looked at some houses up by that race track saratoga and to this day babrbara still talks about how we should have bought one

and long island is starting to suck a little bit

All I'd have to do is call Barbie & remind her how much she loved my house & all the land & maybe mention that there's a house down the road with twice as much land as mine for less than you paid for your current house & you'd be moving up here in about 3 months :D

PS - I like the text under your name |bananna|

na... what happens when something happens at one of the houses in the city

I drive 6 hours for a leaky pipe or to shovel the snow

a 6 hr drive to reset a breaker

it would never work

Tommy - when I lived in Saratoga I hated it - but then I didnt have my gun rack on the pickup :) - The town is overrun with the Skiddie Kiddies 8 months of the year (Skidmore girls) getting drunk and not knowing what the hell they are doing, then August is when everybody leaves so that they can rent their houses out to the race people for 20k a month - other than that, its like a mini Greenwich Village with bunches of former and wanna be hippies (yeah I was one of those former ones) that think art and bagels are the two most important things in the world (at least they got the bagels right) :)

You ought to come on down to Ms - see what living in the real country is like - of course dont come on a Wed. - everything closes down for church :)

Wow, a local! Saratoga Springs (about 30 minutes south of me) is a very pretty place with lots of pretty old buildings and pretty young faces and a very corrupt police chief and political party. It's all a facade. Sarartoa is where you move to show off your money and make people think you have class even when it is obvious that you don't. I'm not a fan of Saratoga either. Can you tell? But then again, I'm not a fan of where I live, which is where you move when you are ready to admit that you have neither class nor money. :D

I have dead relatives buried in New York, does that count?

I knew we had something in common. ;)

I'm in the woods of north NJ. Moved here from Paterson, NJ.
I used to work in NYC and I'll always love the city.

It's amazing how different it is here in north NJ compared to Paterson - lol!
I went from the heroin capitol to the corn field capitol - lol!

I have a cousin who lives right on Seneca lake (Watkins Glen)

Bill

Has anyone else noticed that the thread started has not said a FUCKING WORD since they posted 3 days ago?

No, we've all been too busy keeping up with the train wreck

The train manned by a man & a woman from Mexico? :D

I think in this case it's "waRshing machines"

|thumb

Allegedly :D

you guys are gonna think this is stupid but
My dream house would have around 20 acres of woods with a stream that I could build a dam on to generate electricty and maybe a few windmills and a few solar panals

I wouldnt mind spending the rest of my days building stuff to generate electricty

this house would also have a wood burning boiler for heat

That's not stupid Tommy - I'd really like to get a windmill here but I'd have to destroy my backyard (for a 3rd time) in order for them to get it set up & the lines to the house & all.

And we burn wood all winder in the fireplace - heats up most of the bottom of the house & cuts back on the gas bill.