<p>You mean…it isn’t</p>
<p>ORE- Eh- GONE?</p>
<p>:p</p>
<p>I grew up in CT and lived for a number of years in the Seattle area. A colleague, who was a New Englander and a Harvard med school grad, when asked if he would ever move back to the NE from WA said: no. He explained that, although the winters may be gray and wet, he had never once had to dig his car out of a “rainbank”.</p>
<p>DRB:</p>
<p>What’s wrong with the one in Madison?</p>
<p>Polite drivers (“please merge in front of me” except the 41st St ramps to 520) vs. kamikaze pilots in training (“you are in my space, die dog!”)</p>
<p>Nodding or smiling at people on the street vs. the slide-past stare</p>
<p>Pedestrians waiting for green lights at stop lights vs. the mad dash through traffic</p>
<p>
Too flat. Other than that, nothing.</p>
<p>I just wondered into this thread, but I realize it’s really only a discussion between 2 cities.</p>
<p>FWIW, I never heard of a “rotary”. It’s a traffic circle in my part of the NE. And we call “soda” “soda”. “Tonic” is something you mix with gin.</p>
<p>And, I always talk to check out clerks.</p>
<p>I thought NE was New England, not northeast, but either way, I wouldn’t include New Jersey (mid-atlantic) in the region.</p>
<p>UW- Madison “too flat”- you’ve obviously never been there- “not one hill, but many”. You can enter a building and actually be on the 4th or 6th floor. Bascom HILL. etc.</p>
<p>“too flat” = no mountains. The Dells are pretty. The Cascades are spectacular.
'Course you don’t have to worry about which way the wind will be blowing when Rainier erupts.</p>
<p>It wasn’t until after I posted that I realized that NE could be New England. But since the OP was pretty much comparing Boston and Seattle I think that was his intent. New Jersey is definately in the northeast. A good part of the state is parallel to New York and Pennsylvania, both of which are in the Northeast. According to this site: <a href=“http://www.answers.com/topic/northeastern-united-states-1[/url]”>http://www.answers.com/topic/northeastern-united-states-1</a> There are 9 Northeastern states: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Conneticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey.</p>
<p>But according to the USGS <a href=“Geology | U.S. Geological Survey”>Geology | U.S. Geological Survey; the mid-Atlantic states are Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, West Virginia (!), Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Maryland. Wonder who decided all that? Apparently Pennsylvania and New Jersey get to be both Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.</p>
<p>Well, we think we’re in the Northeast. (I woulda thought that the Midatlantic is a subset of it, as is New England.)</p>
<p>I did read the original post as NE refering to NOrtheast, I guess because it was paired with NW.</p>
<p>I’ll go, now. :)</p>
<p>Cheers:
Manhattan,or the entire NYC is emphatically not in the NE,its in its own world…checkout cashiers and all.</p>
<p>Ah hem. In the Great Northwest, they say “pop,” not soda. Also, Seattle has become so darn popular that it’s beginning to [unfortunately] resemble the rest of the country, i.e. if you’ve seen one shopping mall, you’ve seen them all. And Nordstroms has lost its luster since they expanded to the East Coast.</p>
<p>Some native NWers still have no regular contact with Microsoft and are just fine with that. “Give me Lotus Smart Suite or give me death.” And “Netscape Navigator or fight!”</p>
<p>I’ll take Dungenes Crab and Olympia oysters over lobsters any day.</p>
<p>The San Juan Pig War was better attended than the Boston Tea Party.</p>
<p>Finally, it come as a surprise to some of you, but Seattle was founded by a bunch of New Englanders, Boston to be exact.</p>
<p>cathymee, but if you live in western New York State, you might prefer that NYC was a seperate state altogether. We lived in upstate NY, in the finger lakes area for four long winters and got the feeling that there was no love lost between upstate and downstate. Strangely enough, that was the same case in upstate and lower Delaware although you can traverse the entire state in under three hours. That’s why threads touting whole swaths of states are funny when within a state we have our own regional differences.</p>
<p>I’ll take Dungenes Crab and Olympia oysters over lobsters any day.</p>
<p>me too;)</p>
<p>Some native NWers still have no regular contact with Microsoft and are just fine with that. “Give me Lotus Smart Suite or give me death.” And “Netscape Navigator or fight!”</p>
<p>Here it would be NeoOffice ( free) and Safari/Firefox</p>
<p>Arthur Denny ( whose party arrived in 1851) was from Ill.
Thomas Mercer ( arrived in 1852) was from Ohio but then moved to Ill.</p>
<p>Dont see anyone from Boston though.
<a href=“The Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History - HistoryLink.org”>Seattle and King County's First Non-Native Settlers - HistoryLink.org;
<p>Key Market? How about the Apple Supermarket on Upper Broadway at, oh, it was 102nd street, in 1982? If you talked to the checkout clerks there I think they would have pulled out a gun and shot you…I never tried it.</p>
<p>I’ll see your oysters (Wellfleet) and raise you (littleneck clams). Yes, razors are the best but unless you have a clam gun and an RV, you never see them.</p>
<p>Crabs are too much work; I’m sticking with lobstah.</p>
<p>Kitty, you may be right but weren’t the Borens from Boston? At least, that’s what I remember from 4th grade NW history class. LOL. Well, at least with with Asa Mercer and those single women there’s a New England connection. How did old Asa ever behave himself aboard ship with all those gals? They all couldn’t have been spinsters.</p>
<p>Drb, haven’t you heard about the newest thing in clam hunting, the Geoduck shute? Be prepared to get your arms and face full of mud. And you may drown if the tide comes in.</p>
<p>Ok…the rotary thing is still bugging me…</p>
<p>I always thought of a rotary as either an old telephone or a club that gives out scholarships :p. Roundabout is what I always used and I grew up in the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast, it just made sense to me (and it may be what my parents used). </p>
<p>re: Madison</p>
<p>Madison and most of Wisconsin’s hills are made from glacial processes (from the last glacial maximum ~20,000 years ago) when the glacier picks up a lot of sediment and drops it in one place while it hangs out for a couple (or more) years. The mountains in the east and west were formed by more typical mountain-building processes, as a direct relationship to plate tectonics. </p>
<p>Leave it to a geologist to explain the difference in such a way that no one will ever bother to ask again :p. Sorry if nobody cares ;).</p>
<p>One more NW vs. NE thing…</p>
<p>in the NW they eat salmon, the NE eats lobster and crabs</p>
<p>The first time I remember encountering a rotery/roundabout was on the way out to Cape Cod. Me and three kids. They were no help, they just wanted me to keep driving around in circles. I’m pretty sure I went bug eyed and white knuckled trying to figure out where the heck to get off the darned thing. After a time or two, though, they started making some sense. My theory on the rotary name is it fits better on the sign than roundabout.</p>
<p>The first (and only) time I ordered salmon in NE-tasteless. I’ll stick to the lobstah when back east. It’s good to have things to look forward to; things that make places special for one reason or another.</p>