nostr:npub10d5zhp5atut9hcmyyslxdr07s65tj45q72wxvg229ajwjvmpqugq6lvvxa I can't remember anything specific, but people from Rochester or Buffalo would occasionally have a slight accent or different word for something. For downstate, I think each borough has a difference in the way they speak, and maybe even different sections of Long Island have their specific differences.
nostr:npub175l80yqmw7jrh79385lpcdaqdgwvxm25leflgqqedmjpkalphvnqyv55we I'm not that familiar with western NY, but from living in the state I know New Yorkers think of it as very distinct.
At the time, I could differentiate between Long Islanders and New Yorkers (meaning the city). Upstate NY was again distinctly different, but I'd where do you draw the line? The Catskills are kind of a hybrid, the Adirondacks quite different again.
Now, living in the west, people around me often think of NY as NY and that's it, unless they've been there.
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nostr:npub175l80yqmw7jrh79385lpcdaqdgwvxm25leflgqqedmjpkalphvnqyv55we I was in Suffolk County, the farthest out from NYC. At the time, I viewed each borough as you neared the city has having a "thicker" accent. Me? I didn't think I had one. 🤣
If I hear someone from Suffolk County talk now I'm stunned. I'm remembering, though, that when I was a kid in the '60s that a lot of people from NYC were migrating to the suburbs in Suffolk. That's migration patterns and influences a lot. 😃