upstate

noun up·state \ ˈəp-ˌstāt \

Definition of upstate

:the chiefly northerly sections of a state; also :the chiefly rural part of a state when the major metropolitan area is in the south

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Spending so much time upstate has slowed me down — literally, in the sense that the nearest Wi-Fi is not speedy at all, and mentally, by impressing on me just how much there is to learn and appreciate.

— emily sundberg, The Cut, "Model Georgia Hilmer on Living at the Mercy of the Porcupines Upstate," 24 July 2017
Our favorite things to do upstate are to hike and swim in swimming holes.

— kate young, Vogue, "Kate Young’s Haute, But Not Haughty, Upstate Adventures," 14 July 2017
Breakfast at the Phoenicia Diner is also an upstate must.

— kate young, Vogue, "Kate Young’s Haute, But Not Haughty, Upstate Adventures," 14 July 2017
After that, March moved to a nine-acre property upstate and launched the New York Firewood Company, which now supplies kindling to 75 restaurants throughout the tristate area.

— julia kramer, Bon Appetit, "Forest to Table: How the Oldest Cooking Method Became the (Literal) Hottest Trend in Restaurants," 8 June 2017
The idea that a woman grows up only by settling down was reiterated in when Hannah Horvath, the show’s protagonist, became pregnant and took a job teaching at a college upstate, a move that facilitated a kind of spiritual epiphany.

— amanda petrusich, The New Yorker, "Miley Cyrus’s Creepy Return to Wholesomeness," 26 May 2017
Just like my childhood dog is staying on a farm upstate.

— callum borchers, Washington Post, "Hasan Minhaj’s Trump-bashing comedy routine at the White House correspondents’ dinner, annotated," 30 Apr. 2017
With the disappearance of manufacturing upstate, prisons provide many of the middle-class jobs factories once did.

— michael schwirtz, michael winerip and robert gebeloff, New York Times, "The Scourge of Racial Bias in New York State’s Prisons," 3 Dec. 2016

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