Rust belt or mid Atlantic. PA and NY are NOT Midwest 🙄

Yeah, feels more Canadian than Mid-Western IMHO.

...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".

It's a rust belt city

Rust belt. Definitely not midwestern. I used to live there so I know

Look at a map of I-81. Its all rust belt.

Rust belt

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 wrote:I’m Scranton, PA which is very midwestern in feel even though it’s a 2.5 hour drive to NJ beaches.

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 wrote:I'm a Midwesterner. People from Buffalo are like the cousins of the Midwest. The only difference is that they aren't "Midwestern nice".

Sounds like Buffalo is where the Northeast and Midwest meet.

I’m Scranton, PA which is very midwestern in feel even though it’s a 2.5 hour drive to NJ beaches.

I'm a Midwesterner. People from Buffalo are like the cousins of the Midwest. The only difference is that they aren't "Midwestern nice".

Rust belt?

Does “midwestern” = “poor & blue collar”? If so, is Philadelphia a midwestern city? Is Newark?

Is this city best known for its chicken wings, Dyngus day and heavy industry actually more Midwestern in spite of its NYS location?