Perhaps include region in which you grew up, and when you learned that context.
I’m curious how widespread this is.
I used to, but I don’t anymore. 
Actually, I do. I wasn’t even aware that anyone would find it odd.
I moved a lot while growing up, but from age 11 to 21 I lived in New England, and I think most of my idiomatic and accent quirks come from that region of the US.
I associate it mainly with the Pennsylvania Dutch and the Mennonite and Amish communities of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Everyone I have heard using it has a rural Ohio background, although not necessarily from those communities.
You forgot to add an option for “No, and those lost souls who do should be hung up by the bura’zak-ka*”
*town hall
Yes, and I’m trying to purge it from usage because it’s not accurate enough.
Could you provide an example?
Ugh, I hate when people do that.
“Any more” can be substituted for “these days” in situations where there is a “more” that there might conceivably be “any” of.
For instance:
“I’m a vegetarian now - I don’t eat meat these days.”
“I’m a vegetarian now - I don’t eat meat any more.”
Both perfectly acceptable sentences, which mean more or less the same thing.
From this grammatical fact, certain uneducated persons who need to be poked with sharp sticks (peers over lorgnette) seem to have concluded that “any more” can be inserted anywhere that “these days” appears.
For instance:
“Any more, it seems like everyone’s glued to their phones 24-7”
If you can recognise that this construction is WRONG, WRONG, DRIPPING WITH WRONGNESS AND WRONGICITY, then you may have a cookie, and vote “no” in the poll.
I’m from Indiana.
I do use it that way, have done so all my life, hear many other people doing it, and genuinely don’t understand how it could possibly be incorrect. People have tried to explain why it’s supposedly so horrible, and those explanations never make any sense.
Edited to add: for example, Aspidistra’s “explanation” above, which appeared while I was typing. Makes no sense. “Anymore” means “now, as contrasted with the past.” If it’s correct in “I don’t eat meat anymore,” how can it possibly be incorrect in “Anymore, it seems like everyone’s glued to their phones”? In both sentences, it’s being used in exactly the same way–to mean, “now, as contrasted with the past.”
How is one right, and the other wrong? Seriously, it makes no sense.
I use it occasionally, born and raised in Northeast Ohio.
Its just idiomatic—in the general American English dialect, “any more” can only be used with a negative change of state, not with a positive one.
I’ll have to change my vote then, because I’ve never used it in that manner, or heard it used that way. if I did, I’d grit my teeth, that was horrible!
I…I don’t know? Yes? I’ve never thought of it.
I’m from Ohio so I’ll just vote yes.
I’m from Florida, but I’ve done it occasionally since getting married to a Yankee from Pennsylvania.
It’s pretty standard in negative constructions throughout the U.S., as in “I don’t drive Ford trucks anymore.” I use it frequently in such constructions. When used in positive constructions, however, as in “Ford sure makes good trucks anymore,” it’s a regional thing. I don’t use it myself, but I heard it a lot when I lived in West Virginia.
How else would one use it?
Jim Quinn, in his book “American Tongue in Cheek,” has a little fun with Those Who Hate This Construction. [The book is mainly dedicated to demonstrating that most of the people who peeve a lot about grammar and usage are actually quite ignorant of the way language works and inconsistent in their applications of the Rules.]
I’m going to get a few of these details wrong, because it’s been a while, but in effect:
*Someone surveyed a bunch of writers and editors back in the early seventies to get their opinions on a variety of grammar and usage questions. (Is there a difference between Admittance and Admission? Is it acceptable to use “host” as verb? That kind of thing.)
*One of the questions dealt with “any more” used in the OP’s sense. The sample quotation came from an interview with a young adult of the time, and the question specified that this use was fairly common among “young people.”
*The panel almost unanimously thought the usage was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, even APPALLING. (Apidistra, were you on the committee? :)) Comments included “Never heard of this solecism,” “Thought it was a typographical error,” “I don’t much approve the speech of young people.”
*After reporting on this, Quinn then produced a quotation from D. H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love,” in which Lawrence uses “any more” in that exact sense: “Quite absurd,” he said. “Suffering bores me, any more.” (The character who speaks the line is your typical early-century Upper-Class English Twit, not exactly an American Young Person of the late sixties.)
So, the construction wasn’t truly unfamiliar to anyone on the panel who had read Lawrence, and as Quinn makes clear, sometimes dislike of an expression or construction results because it’s used by (or because you’re told it’s used by) people you don’t much like or respect.
You don’t have to like the expression, and you certainly don’t have to use it. I don’t, myself; I grew up saying “these days” and never felt a need to change that. But it doesn’t bother me at all when I (occasionally) hear or see “any more” in its positive connotation–and I can’t help but wonder how much of the opposition to it is based on the ignorance Quinn refers to.
I do it occasionally… though never at the beginning of a sentence.
I’m pretty sure that when I do use it, I am using it in a case where it makes sense to do so. (i.e. in reference to vegetarians, but not cell phone usage)
To help eliminate confusion, it would nice if the OP returned and clarified that what he is referring to is the “positive anymore.” Sometimes a little Wikipedia link goes a long way.
Edit: I forgot to mention that I don’t like the positive anymore construction myself. It does sound wrong to my ears, but I realize it is a regionalism.
I was going to post this, too.
When I first heard people use the positive anymore in “the wild”, I was all “where did you get THAT?” Then I learned it had a name, and was merely a regionalism, and now it doesn’t bother me anymore. 