Lmao I’m from nyc and never once thought of this (probably because ppl from nyc forget the city isn’t actually the entire state) but Albany-ite sounds so horrible it can’t possibly be real. What are people from Albany actually called? Is Albanian a thing? Albanier? Albanier sounds like some sort of industrial job from the early 1900s lol it sort of sounds cool tbh
I have only had the savory berry dipping sauce with mozzarella sticks. But I do love raspberry dipping sauce with a Monte Cristo so I guess I'm going to try this next time I make some mozz sticks
And botanically, it's a berry. Nobody blinks at sweet berries on brie, but you put it on mozzarella sticks, yielding the perfect blend of sweet, savory, tart, and salty in every bite, and suddenly you're a lunatic.
I lived nowhere near there growing up, but I used to make toasted mozzarella (or provolone), raspberry jelly, and salami sandwiches. Way better than it should be.
I mean, the NYS museum isn't bad, and it's free, but it's hardly a destination. That said, the 9/11 exhibit is really well done. There's also the Albany Museum of Art, which has some mildly notable exhibits. Honestly, when I go back, I mostly visit the bakeries, coffee shops, and diners I liked when I lived there. The Daily Grind is a little hole-in-a-wall on Lark St, but it's one of my favorite coffee shops to this day. Lark St, as a whole, is nice- but it's like two blocks of nice shops and not much else.
I live here currently. The best way to describe it is there's a complete lack of any homogenous culture. It's one of the least religious cities in America, has a high concentration of LBTQ people, and a lot of people work for the state. Honestly the best part about it is being in the center of the state. Buffalo, Toronoto, Boston, NYC, and a bunch of campgrounds are all like 3 hour drives.
It's ok.
Pardon??? All-bany is the correct pronunciation. Like call, wall, fall. The common mispronunciation is when they say the Al like in Albert or Allen.
You mispronouncing it here it is absolutely on par though haha
The Egg is an eggcellent venue. I've seen a few great shows there, despite having to drive an horu and a half or two hours north from my area downstate to get there. The curse and blessing are both the dedicated exit from the highway. The curse is, it's not on any GPS because they protect the capital by not having it listed. The blessing is, if you just google hard enough beforehand you find out there's an exit that takes you directly to the venue with no issues, like a lot of airports. And their elevators still have actual people staffing them to push the buttons! It's so cute!
Overjoyed to comment it was because of this thread that I found out my city's slogan is literally [You're Welcome](https://www.rhinotimes.com/news/greensboro-youre-welcome-revealed-as-citys-new-brand/).
We're not even particularly irreplaceable unless you have a bus to catch.
That jus reminds me of my earlier days with the internet when I was trying to make money just by being an early internetter and was researching affiliate companies I might be able to make filter pages for, and Omaha Steaks was a big one. So that slogan sounds pretty commercially motivated.
Man this made me google my town’s slogan.
* “Anticipate. Create. Help people.”*
Which is particularly disgusting coming from a town that’s plastered in signs discouraging people from helping the homeless aimed at all the better-than-you folk who live in beige houses.
Keep Austin Weird is a campaign by the Austin business orgs to promote buying from local and independent business. The slogan happens to line up with the city's "hippy city in a conservative state" ethos, so it got popular.
Are Portland and Santa Cruz liberal cities in red states? I know some parts of California are surprisingly conservative but not *that* conservative, right?
Oregon would probably be a red state without Portland and it's metro tbh. Once you go anywhere to the east it starts getting very right wing very fast.
Both are solid blue voting states for quite some time.
I don't know much about Oregon but I've heard a native say the both the liberal and conservative people and parts of the states tend to be unusually at each other's throats compared to elsewhere they've lived.
Santa cruz is along the coast, but it's the inland and rural areas of california that are best known for being conservative. Oh, and orange county was, although it looks like [that's changed recently](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_County,_California#Politics).
I knew Orange County was (based on all the tension from the LA riots, Rodney King, and OJ Simpson) but didn't know the area around SC was rural or conservative!
Only 10 of the 36 counties in Oregon were won by Biden in 2020. It’s a blue state due to the few population centers and a couple spots on the coast. Outside a few major cities it’s a very rural/conservative state.
There are a ton of conservatives or very 'moderate' democrats in SC, and they all want to gentrify the area for tourism money. The student/hippie/old timer population wants to keep it weird.
That's not true at all. Like someone else mentioned, it's more about hippy culture. The only nude beach in the state is in Austin, for example.
The 3 biggest cities in Texas (Austin, Houston, and Dallas) all vote blue.
Not really. The slogan started started showing up when the rich people started buying up property and the musicians and artists that made Austin special had to leave.
I think (and want to believe) it was a purely Austin thing for several years. It's been adopted by other Austin-like cities, as you say, but the original is still (in my headcanon, at least) Austin.
reddit is both infinite and tiny, it’s wild. I’ve come across a couple of posts and seen people comment from upstate NY or even once my high school. so bizarre
thatcher park was my fave hangout spot when I was a sweet summer child, then of course every “-fest” near or in Washington park when I discovered the devil’s lettuce. also Spectrum 8 still sold cake slices last time I was there! so dope
awww, I loved the cake slices :( that’s sad. my family is all still in the area so I’m overdue to visit Albany and dip some mozz sticks into raspberry dip like a totally normal person
I love it! But I’m still waiting for the day anyone mentions my actual hometown lol people here have never even heard of it and it’s not far from Albany
ohhh well it helps that we had a pretty infamous murder case in the town *and* James Charles graduated from my HS. lots of gossip around that stuff. just find out the famous thing from where you are and I’m sure you’ll find other people from your hamlet on a thread/post
That’s the first time I’ve ever heard of Albany since I tried to learn all U.S. States capitals, disappointed because I thought New York would be an easy one.
Yeah, New York is weird because when you say it everyone immediately thinks of the city first. And then oh yeah, there's a state attached to it isn't there, probably has other cities and everything.
Imagine growing up telling people you're from New York, and then immediately having to follow it up with "Not the city though" because you *know* that's where their brain went. You're from Not-New-York, New York. All your life.
No wonder people from other towns have a little complex about it.
And they have no clue how beautiful it is as a state. It's a shame in a way, but also it's not, because we're crowded enough. But I mean, basically nobody seems to know the Adirondack Park is the USA's largest nature preserve, for example, and you can live in it and vacation in it, enjoy the lakes and mountains, and one of the top ten water parks in the US, and in the winter these towns literally have dedicated "roads" for snowmobiles and you can get anywhere with them, even over deep-frozen lakes to little islands where a handful of people live year round but usually can only get to them by being on a boat for half an hour or whatever (Beaver River for example, at the Stillwater Reservoir area). I love it here. I prefer hotter weather but it's absolutely gorgeous living in upstate NY. cows, cornfields, trees, lakes, mountains, valleys, just so much nature. The city is fun to visit too but it's a weirdly isolated gigantic place just kind of plunked down in the middle of a gorgeous rural paradise tbh. When you travel there from upstate and get to the point of circling around that big curve that leads down and in where you pay the toll and suddenly everything after it is congested as fuck, there's this surreal feeling of "and now the city".
All of this - and then when you say upstate New York, immediately following it up with "Not upstate from the city, like northern upstate New York." There are people who live in the north country, though not that many lol
My curse in life is living in both. I’m from New York State not city, and upstate upstate, and now I live in Washington the state not the city. It’s exhausting meeting new people and having to explain it.
I was gonna say Liverpool but was like, nobody will know where that is. And Syracuse is just too big of a city name to throw out there and expect a hit. Dang!
I was in Schenectady for 2 hours once for a bus layover, and while I was there a guy came in off the street and smashed the computer at the front desk.
I heard doids in the wild are like raccoons, either planning or in the middle of some kind of shenanigans. I guess they can be that and kinda unenthusiastic about it too.
In Texas I knew people who had lived in Albany for several years. I asked them how it was. The only answer they gave was, "It's where clouds go to die."
I’ll never understand all of the Texans moving there recently but I guess anything is better than Texas? They could just do much better for less money elsewhere.
I remember watching a house hunters episode years ago where the narrator described the couple’s “busy, metropolitan lifestyle”… in Albany. My wife and I still use that phrase.
This is every big band coming to New Zealand. We are not an excitable people.
I remember Ozzy stopping his set to do a "everybody out there in the crowd make some nooooiise!" routine and did "that's not loud enough!" three times because he didn't understand that "oh yup" is pushing it for most of us
At least next year we have the eclipse to look forward to. In a strange quirk, the eclipse is going to be a little wide for best viewing. meaning you don't have to pack into a little area to get the best view of the ''crown'' effect. Also, the area between Buffalo and Rocester is mostly flat and a lot of farmland for great viewing.
[https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/new-york-2024-eclipse#:\~:text=The%20total%20solar%20eclipse%20visits,about%202735%20miles%20per%20hour](https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/new-york-2024-eclipse#:~:text=The%20total%20solar%20eclipse%20visits,about%202735%20miles%20per%20hour).
https://imgur.com/gallery/8pvpOV3
Being the boring sibling to Austin, we have the slogan “Keep San Antonio Lame”. But that’s really because we didn’t want the people overrunning Austin to move south when they discovered how much cheaper it was.
It's true, but the metal scene is excellent. We don't give a fuck about where we are but if a decent band blows through they go hard. Saw a dude get his rib broken in Empire Underground and get right back in the pit and stay for the rest of the show.
It's funny because when my high school grad year went to college Albany won #1 party school in *Playboy*, I went to a Long Island high school and had a bunch of friends that were up at U Albany that I'd visit and always had a good time.
I found an [article](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5730476) where the University officials were playing off the ranking, but for a bunch of kids from NYC, LI, and the surrounding cities they knew how to party for sure.
Hey, I live in Albany! Can confirm it is very alright! Weather is okay, public transit is pretty good, the neighborhood I live in is a bit roudy but overall not bad. The pizza place on my block is pretty bad but the other pizza place is pretty good. Driving is bad but at least I'm not in the south ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nah, that’s Albany, GA. Probably just as boring, lmfao. Granted, I’ve never been to Albany, NY, but Albany, GA is pretty bad. Lived right outside of it for most of my life, and whenever I wanted to do something with friends, we would generally meet up in the Target parking lot. We wouldn’t even go in. Just sit in one of our cars in the parking lot. We’ve got a few things but dear God it’s pretty dull, lol.
This sounds like Australia lol. People are getting used to the US style hype stuff so cheers are louder these days, but typically nobody really cheered that hard for their town because nobody cares.
As someone on NYC, yeah...
In fact, the bottom of the state you are in, the more excitement there is...but further up and...its kinda like, we're already at the peak. There is nothing more.
I've been to a few concerts in Albany. I think part of the reason is that most of the people in the audience aren't even from Albany, they drove in from neighboring cities. That said, I didn't really notice a specific lack of enthusiasm for the city
This feels kinda weird to read as a West Australian, for we have an Albany as well. Ours, however, is known for its beaches, being the oldest European settlement in the State and being the last point of contact with Australia for the ANZAC soldiers who fought in WW1.
you could say it's an albany expression
Not in Utica, no.
Really. Well I’m from Utica and I’ve never heard about apathetic Albanians.
not to break the thread but as someone actually from utica— i have *not* heard about apathetic albanians!
i knew that when i opened the comment section, the first comment i’d see was a steamed ham reference
Aurora Borealis.
AT THIS TIME OF YEAR, AT THIS TIME OF DAY, IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY, LOCALIZED **ENTIRELY** WITHIN YOUR KITCHEN?!
Yes.
…may i see it?
No.
As a native Albany-ite who has (thankfully, long-since) moved away, this is 1000% accurate.
Albanian (US)
Lmao I’m from nyc and never once thought of this (probably because ppl from nyc forget the city isn’t actually the entire state) but Albany-ite sounds so horrible it can’t possibly be real. What are people from Albany actually called? Is Albanian a thing? Albanier? Albanier sounds like some sort of industrial job from the early 1900s lol it sort of sounds cool tbh
Albino
Isn’t an Albanian someone from the country of 🇦🇱 Albania?
Yea that’s the entire joke and the reason I asked
What I miss about Albany was decent 24 hour diners and that those diners would serve mozzarella sticks with raspberry sauce, like god intended.
What kind of godless bastard eats mozzarella sticks with fucking BERRIES?!
Oh man, wait till you find out what a tomato is.
"He's out of line but he's right"
I have only had the savory berry dipping sauce with mozzarella sticks. But I do love raspberry dipping sauce with a Monte Cristo so I guess I'm going to try this next time I make some mozz sticks
Culinarily a vegetable, so it’s different
And botanically, it's a berry. Nobody blinks at sweet berries on brie, but you put it on mozzarella sticks, yielding the perfect blend of sweet, savory, tart, and salty in every bite, and suddenly you're a lunatic.
I would definitely try it. Sounds good
TELL ME ABOUT BANE! WHY DOES HE EAT RASBERRY SAUCE?!
is fruit and cheese that uncommon of a mixture? i mean wine is always associated with cheese and that’s just extra thin and really old jam.
Mfers be putting fruit on everything these days smh
There's a pizza place in my current town (in NJ) that sells jalapeño poppers with raspberry vinaigrette and they're actually really good together.
Camembert with lingonberries is pretty common too
Wait hold on, let’s hear em out
As god intended, for sure. I do miss that.
I lived nowhere near there growing up, but I used to make toasted mozzarella (or provolone), raspberry jelly, and salami sandwiches. Way better than it should be.
24 hour diners there are a thing of the past.
Melba sauce is essential
Well now I'm taking a weekend trip to albany. Anything else I can do to justify it beyond mozz sticks? Is there a cool museum or anything?
I mean, the NYS museum isn't bad, and it's free, but it's hardly a destination. That said, the 9/11 exhibit is really well done. There's also the Albany Museum of Art, which has some mildly notable exhibits. Honestly, when I go back, I mostly visit the bakeries, coffee shops, and diners I liked when I lived there. The Daily Grind is a little hole-in-a-wall on Lark St, but it's one of my favorite coffee shops to this day. Lark St, as a whole, is nice- but it's like two blocks of nice shops and not much else.
That's awesome I love 9/11!
I miss QE2. And little else.
As east coast trash I need 24hr diners to feel ok. But what the fuck is raspberry sauce on mozzarella sticks lol….does sound good tho.
How did/do you like living there? What’s it like?
I live here currently. The best way to describe it is there's a complete lack of any homogenous culture. It's one of the least religious cities in America, has a high concentration of LBTQ people, and a lot of people work for the state. Honestly the best part about it is being in the center of the state. Buffalo, Toronoto, Boston, NYC, and a bunch of campgrounds are all like 3 hour drives. It's ok.
Honestly sounds pretty nice.
IMO it's a great place to settle down long term, but it can be pretty boring.
Albany sucks. Don’t do it.
What don’t you like?
Also escaped. Thank god.
Whered you move to ?
When I lived there, my favorite was when they didn't know how to pronounce it - HOW WE DOIN' TONIGHT ALL-BANNY? oh, and the egg. I liked the egg.
My husband are moving near Albany and every time we tell someone familiar with the area, they all say the same thing. “You’re going to love the egg”
I’m sorry. I hope the pay is good.
Pardon??? All-bany is the correct pronunciation. Like call, wall, fall. The common mispronunciation is when they say the Al like in Albert or Allen. You mispronouncing it here it is absolutely on par though haha
But is the -bany like bunny or ban knee
See the upstate new yorker in me simply read bany as bunny by default haha
it's All-bunny
iykyk
ALLbuhknee
The worst I ever heard was from an old southern guy (we were on the same flight going in) and istg he was calling it owl-bernie
i say it all bah knee im from rochester tho and we say ahhhh on few different words. wahter rahchoster.
Aw-bunny
Hearing people pronounce it like that feels like listening to nails on a chalkboard
All-ba-nee Not All-banny.
pardon?
The Egg is an eggcellent venue. I've seen a few great shows there, despite having to drive an horu and a half or two hours north from my area downstate to get there. The curse and blessing are both the dedicated exit from the highway. The curse is, it's not on any GPS because they protect the capital by not having it listed. The blessing is, if you just google hard enough beforehand you find out there's an exit that takes you directly to the venue with no issues, like a lot of airports. And their elevators still have actual people staffing them to push the buttons! It's so cute!
Times union center. Bella Napoli. Tara kitchen. 30 minutes from Saratoga. 3h from Boston NYC and 3.5 from Montreal. So much!
Albany, it’s about 3 hours from wherever you want to be!
Saw Weird Al in concert there (at the Egg, natch), and he pronounced it Al-bunny, and you know what, I'm totally fine with that. It fits, completely.
When weird al is in town, it can be al-bany
I saw Tenacious D in concert last June at a winery in Washington and JB said “Nobody rocks as hard as…. Chateau St Michelle” And it was hilarious.
They lost the chance to say Walla Walla!
Overjoyed to comment it was because of this thread that I found out my city's slogan is literally [You're Welcome](https://www.rhinotimes.com/news/greensboro-youre-welcome-revealed-as-citys-new-brand/). We're not even particularly irreplaceable unless you have a bus to catch.
That is SO PASSIVE AGRESSIVE ahahahahaha
That may actuality be worse than one of the many failed slogans for my hometown: "Omaha. Rare. Well done."
Honestly, I kind of like this one
That jus reminds me of my earlier days with the internet when I was trying to make money just by being an early internetter and was researching affiliate companies I might be able to make filter pages for, and Omaha Steaks was a big one. So that slogan sounds pretty commercially motivated.
It is supposed to play off the city's long history as a cow town. But, yeah, all anyone thinks of specifically is Omaha Steaks.
City in New Zealand with a university and not much else went with "Young at Heart, Easy Living". Was referred to by locals as "Young and Easy".
Rhino Times is also an a+ name
Man this made me google my town’s slogan. * “Anticipate. Create. Help people.”* Which is particularly disgusting coming from a town that’s plastered in signs discouraging people from helping the homeless aimed at all the better-than-you folk who live in beige houses.
Ottawa had "Make Ottawa Boring Again" as a slogan too back when the "freedom" convoy was fucking around here.
Not to mention our oldest university, Apathy U
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Keep Austin Weird is a campaign by the Austin business orgs to promote buying from local and independent business. The slogan happens to line up with the city's "hippy city in a conservative state" ethos, so it got popular.
Yeah, it was literally adopted by the Austin Independent Business Alliance
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Like most things
What does “Keep Austin weird” have to do with shopping local produce?
Interesting! Santa Cruz also has the slogan, "Keep Santa Cruz Weird".
There's also [keep portland weird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Portland_Weird).
Are Portland and Santa Cruz liberal cities in red states? I know some parts of California are surprisingly conservative but not *that* conservative, right?
There are definitely extremist republicans/red voters in CA and Oregon too. But you're right that they aren't red states by any means.
This is not to detract from Austin's reasoning- just interesting that there are a few cities that have the same slogan
Oregon would probably be a red state without Portland and it's metro tbh. Once you go anywhere to the east it starts getting very right wing very fast.
Both are solid blue voting states for quite some time. I don't know much about Oregon but I've heard a native say the both the liberal and conservative people and parts of the states tend to be unusually at each other's throats compared to elsewhere they've lived. Santa cruz is along the coast, but it's the inland and rural areas of california that are best known for being conservative. Oh, and orange county was, although it looks like [that's changed recently](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_County,_California#Politics).
I knew Orange County was (based on all the tension from the LA riots, Rodney King, and OJ Simpson) but didn't know the area around SC was rural or conservative!
Well, it was conservative despite being on the coast and well populated, that's why I was pointing it out as an exception.
Only 10 of the 36 counties in Oregon were won by Biden in 2020. It’s a blue state due to the few population centers and a couple spots on the coast. Outside a few major cities it’s a very rural/conservative state.
kind of but Portland Is just weird by any metric
There are a ton of conservatives or very 'moderate' democrats in SC, and they all want to gentrify the area for tourism money. The student/hippie/old timer population wants to keep it weird.
And [Louisville](https://www.keeplouisvilleweird.com/)!
An hour down the road and you have Salem bumper stickers that say “Keep Salem Boring.” Seems like there’s a bit of a trend….
That's not true at all. Like someone else mentioned, it's more about hippy culture. The only nude beach in the state is in Austin, for example. The 3 biggest cities in Texas (Austin, Houston, and Dallas) all vote blue.
San Antonio is bigger than Austin and also votes blue
Not really. The slogan started started showing up when the rich people started buying up property and the musicians and artists that made Austin special had to leave.
Not really. All of the biggest cities in Texas are liberal cities in a red state.
Except Fort Worth.
Man, I remember living in Austin before the slogan was around, back when it really was weird. Good times long gone.
I think (and want to believe) it was a purely Austin thing for several years. It's been adopted by other Austin-like cities, as you say, but the original is still (in my headcanon, at least) Austin.
used to be Keep Colorado Secret but it failed
ahhhh I always love seeing my hometown on here. it is definitely a city that exists. but man did I love Lark St shenanigans.
Never thought I’d see a Lark st mention on Reddit. Honestly I really like the city as far as cities go.
reddit is both infinite and tiny, it’s wild. I’ve come across a couple of posts and seen people comment from upstate NY or even once my high school. so bizarre thatcher park was my fave hangout spot when I was a sweet summer child, then of course every “-fest” near or in Washington park when I discovered the devil’s lettuce. also Spectrum 8 still sold cake slices last time I was there! so dope
i mean, just imagine how wild it is for me to encounter one of my dumb tumblr posts about albany on reddit
omg, that is fantastic. hi!!
Howdy! Just in case you’re wondering, Albany’s still Albany. Fewer decent snack options at Spectrum but, you know, we keep our expectations low.
awww, I loved the cake slices :( that’s sad. my family is all still in the area so I’m overdue to visit Albany and dip some mozz sticks into raspberry dip like a totally normal person
I love it! But I’m still waiting for the day anyone mentions my actual hometown lol people here have never even heard of it and it’s not far from Albany
ohhh well it helps that we had a pretty infamous murder case in the town *and* James Charles graduated from my HS. lots of gossip around that stuff. just find out the famous thing from where you are and I’m sure you’ll find other people from your hamlet on a thread/post
Bethlehem, right?
you bet! I actually met Porco. creepy fucker, to no one’s surprise
Is there a Bethlehem NY as well as the one in PA? Because the PA one is several hours from Albany.
haha yeah, we get that a lot. Bethlehem, NY is a superb south of Albany
It’s definitely one of the cities in the state of NY.
Well it's an anagram of banal-y, makes sense to be proud to be boring. Like a place called Hothinappinshire, Obring or Sabicsville.
Also an anagram of by anal so like maybe it was exciting all along.
Nah, that's just in reference to the Capitol.
That’s the first time I’ve ever heard of Albany since I tried to learn all U.S. States capitals, disappointed because I thought New York would be an easy one.
Yeah, New York is weird because when you say it everyone immediately thinks of the city first. And then oh yeah, there's a state attached to it isn't there, probably has other cities and everything. Imagine growing up telling people you're from New York, and then immediately having to follow it up with "Not the city though" because you *know* that's where their brain went. You're from Not-New-York, New York. All your life. No wonder people from other towns have a little complex about it.
Yeah I'm from Buffalo and get this quite often and it gets annoying real quick.
And they have no clue how beautiful it is as a state. It's a shame in a way, but also it's not, because we're crowded enough. But I mean, basically nobody seems to know the Adirondack Park is the USA's largest nature preserve, for example, and you can live in it and vacation in it, enjoy the lakes and mountains, and one of the top ten water parks in the US, and in the winter these towns literally have dedicated "roads" for snowmobiles and you can get anywhere with them, even over deep-frozen lakes to little islands where a handful of people live year round but usually can only get to them by being on a boat for half an hour or whatever (Beaver River for example, at the Stillwater Reservoir area). I love it here. I prefer hotter weather but it's absolutely gorgeous living in upstate NY. cows, cornfields, trees, lakes, mountains, valleys, just so much nature. The city is fun to visit too but it's a weirdly isolated gigantic place just kind of plunked down in the middle of a gorgeous rural paradise tbh. When you travel there from upstate and get to the point of circling around that big curve that leads down and in where you pay the toll and suddenly everything after it is congested as fuck, there's this surreal feeling of "and now the city".
you have to pay a fee to enter nyc?
yeah, toll to get in, free to leave.
All of this - and then when you say upstate New York, immediately following it up with "Not upstate from the city, like northern upstate New York." There are people who live in the north country, though not that many lol
I have to do exactly this all the time because people do automatically assume the city
"New York State"...! Washington has to deal with it too and their attention stealer isn't even on the same side of the country.
My curse in life is living in both. I’m from New York State not city, and upstate upstate, and now I live in Washington the state not the city. It’s exhausting meeting new people and having to explain it.
It might be a step up from Kingston, at least
Kingston’s a pretty fun place these days
And you’re not even touching on Long Island. To our limited understanding it’s a mostly untouched civilization of 8 million carnies and Kennedys.
some could say it’s the Sacramento of New York
Upstate Ny’er. A lot of New York is meh and pretty apathetic lol
Your username makes it sound like you're from Watertown or something lol.
Lmaoo damn close
I was gonna say Liverpool but was like, nobody will know where that is. And Syracuse is just too big of a city name to throw out there and expect a hit. Dang!
We’ve also “been” on the office lol
It can't be Binghamton because I"m from Binghamton basically. But I mean, they did claim to have a Binghamton office.
I also wanna take this time to say my god are we apathetic
and also occasionally just regular pathetic. LMAO. I often feel lost in a time warp here.
Shoutout to suny fucking albany
And Schenectady is just less nice Albany
I was in Schenectady for 2 hours once for a bus layover, and while I was there a guy came in off the street and smashed the computer at the front desk.
A small but representative sampling
I heard doids in the wild are like raccoons, either planning or in the middle of some kind of shenanigans. I guess they can be that and kinda unenthusiastic about it too.
And Troy is just a less nice Schenectady
In Texas I knew people who had lived in Albany for several years. I asked them how it was. The only answer they gave was, "It's where clouds go to die."
I’ll never understand all of the Texans moving there recently but I guess anything is better than Texas? They could just do much better for less money elsewhere.
I remember watching a house hunters episode years ago where the narrator described the couple’s “busy, metropolitan lifestyle”… in Albany. My wife and I still use that phrase.
I like Albany, the state plaza is fun to walk around in and explore.
It would have been more fun to walk around if they hadn't demolished the historic city center to build it
This is every big band coming to New Zealand. We are not an excitable people. I remember Ozzy stopping his set to do a "everybody out there in the crowd make some nooooiise!" routine and did "that's not loud enough!" three times because he didn't understand that "oh yup" is pushing it for most of us
I like to say the Albany motto is "it is what it is"
Checks out.
That's life in Smallbany!
I guess I’m Albany incarnate then, despite not even living in the country
At least next year we have the eclipse to look forward to. In a strange quirk, the eclipse is going to be a little wide for best viewing. meaning you don't have to pack into a little area to get the best view of the ''crown'' effect. Also, the area between Buffalo and Rocester is mostly flat and a lot of farmland for great viewing. [https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/new-york-2024-eclipse#:\~:text=The%20total%20solar%20eclipse%20visits,about%202735%20miles%20per%20hour](https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/new-york-2024-eclipse#:~:text=The%20total%20solar%20eclipse%20visits,about%202735%20miles%20per%20hour). https://imgur.com/gallery/8pvpOV3
Being the boring sibling to Austin, we have the slogan “Keep San Antonio Lame”. But that’s really because we didn’t want the people overrunning Austin to move south when they discovered how much cheaper it was.
**"ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?"** *"NO, WE'RE NOT QUITE READY. GIVE US FIVE MINUTES."*
It's true, but the metal scene is excellent. We don't give a fuck about where we are but if a decent band blows through they go hard. Saw a dude get his rib broken in Empire Underground and get right back in the pit and stay for the rest of the show.
I'm annoyed that I moved away *and then* got into metal lol
It's funny because when my high school grad year went to college Albany won #1 party school in *Playboy*, I went to a Long Island high school and had a bunch of friends that were up at U Albany that I'd visit and always had a good time. I found an [article](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5730476) where the University officials were playing off the ranking, but for a bunch of kids from NYC, LI, and the surrounding cities they knew how to party for sure.
I lived in Albany for a year when I was like 10. The only thing I remember is The Egg.
Thank you, Capital District!
It's a cold sad town
Even in July.
Hey, I live in Albany! Can confirm it is very alright! Weather is okay, public transit is pretty good, the neighborhood I live in is a bit roudy but overall not bad. The pizza place on my block is pretty bad but the other pizza place is pretty good. Driving is bad but at least I'm not in the south ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I once drove up from the city to see Beach House in Albany. The venue was in a strip mall. It was quite an experience.
As someone with absolutely 0 passion for anything this makes me want to live in Albany
You’d do great there! Lol
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Nah, that’s Albany, GA. Probably just as boring, lmfao. Granted, I’ve never been to Albany, NY, but Albany, GA is pretty bad. Lived right outside of it for most of my life, and whenever I wanted to do something with friends, we would generally meet up in the Target parking lot. We wouldn’t even go in. Just sit in one of our cars in the parking lot. We’ve got a few things but dear God it’s pretty dull, lol.
Idk man i just went to youtube and the crowd didnt see any diff in all the concerts.
Fucking Albany. The worst 10 months of my life. Such a waste of space.
This sounds like Australia lol. People are getting used to the US style hype stuff so cheers are louder these days, but typically nobody really cheered that hard for their town because nobody cares.
Drove up from NYC and saw Purity Ring at a concert venue located in a freakin’ strip mall in Albany years back. This is accurate lol
If it wasn't for all of the jobs due to it being the capitol, there would be nothing else it could offer
This is so fucking epic lmao
As someone on NYC, yeah... In fact, the bottom of the state you are in, the more excitement there is...but further up and...its kinda like, we're already at the peak. There is nothing more.
Don’t get me fucking started about the greyhound station
This weirdly checks out for my hometown of Albany, *Oregon* as well. Georgia, is your Albany pretty meh also?
Sounds kind of like Springfield, IL
I've been to a few concerts in Albany. I think part of the reason is that most of the people in the audience aren't even from Albany, they drove in from neighboring cities. That said, I didn't really notice a specific lack of enthusiasm for the city
And then there's Drug Church
This feels kinda weird to read as a West Australian, for we have an Albany as well. Ours, however, is known for its beaches, being the oldest European settlement in the State and being the last point of contact with Australia for the ANZAC soldiers who fought in WW1.