I hear it in movies so the time. We’re going upstate. I went upstate. Etc

I never hear downstate, or similar. Does it just mean going north?

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    8 months ago

    I live in Southern California and we don’t really use that phrase around here. I think it’s almost entirely used to refer to basically any area of New York north of NYC.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, I’ve lived in quite a few different states, but only in NYC do I hear and use “upstate.”