Is Buffalo a Northeastern city or a Midwestern city?
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Anonymous
| Is this city best known for its chicken wings, Dyngus day and heavy industry actually more Midwestern in spite of its NYS location? |
Anonymous
| Does “midwestern” = “poor & blue collar”? If so, is Philadelphia a midwestern city? Is Newark? |
Anonymous
| Rust belt? |
Anonymous
| I'm a Midwesterner. People from Buffalo are like the cousins of the Midwest. The only difference is that they aren't "Midwestern nice". |
Anonymous
| I’m Scranton, PA which is very midwestern in feel even though it’s a 2.5 hour drive to NJ beaches. |
Anonymous
Sounds like Buffalo is where the Northeast and Midwest meet. |
Anonymous
Meanwhile there's nothing "rust belty" about Minneapolis, Omaha or Kansas City. It seems like the rust belt straddles the eastern midwest, Upstate NY and most of PA. |
Anonymous
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It’s the Midwest.
But western Ny is kind of its own thing. It’s not part of any megaregion and it’s not that influential. |
Anonymous
| Rust belt |
Anonymous
| Look at a map of I-81. Its all rust belt. |
Anonymous
| Rust belt. Definitely not midwestern. I used to live there so I know |
Anonymous
| It's a rust belt city |
Anonymous
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...it's definitely not the Midwest. WTF? I went to Purdue, an actual Midwestern school, and lived and worked in Buffalo for 7 years. It's a polite East Coast town, almost Canadian in its friendliness.
I also roll my eyes at what people think New York culture is. New York is a diverse state, and the city itself holds many cultures within it. Buffalo is rusty industrial New York. You don't need a coarse Brooklyn accent and a fake-hostile attitude to be a "New Yorker". |
Anonymous
| Yeah, feels more Canadian than Mid-Western IMHO. |
Anonymous
| Rust belt or mid Atlantic. PA and NY are NOT Midwest 🙄 |