[Genoa]

We always used that term for anyone above Westchester County.

LMAO! I really am from upstate, and there's plenty north of Westchester that will always be downstate to me! It always made me laugh when people in NYC would call Ossining, Nyack, etc. "upstate."

[xrmusn]

I came from Orange/Dutchess County and consider myself to be from ‘upstate New York’.
Although I was born in The Bronx but that was just because I wanted to be near my mother at the time....