Breathless weathercritters refer to “the high country” in their reports, which means most of us live in “the low country”, altho no one uses that.
I watch local news and have not heard of Superior California around here, either. Maybe that’s from a station in Redding or Chico.
Not exactly local news, but you can tell a company didn’t do their research when their ad refers to “the Raleigh Metro area.”
In Cleveland, it’s usually “Northeast Ohio”. Though in actual use, that term is almost always just Cuyahoga County (Cleveland and most of its suburbs). It’s never, like, Ashtabula, or Akron.
There’s also the Western Reserve, though nowadays that mostly only survives in the Western Reserve Historical Society and Case Western Reserve University.
I remember once on this board, someone referred to “the Tri-State Area”, and then got all indignant when folks didn’t know where he meant. The only thing that’s special about the New York one is that only New Yorkers would assume that theirs is special.
“The Valley” or “The Valley of the Sun” for the greater Phoenix metro area.
Yeah, I’ve lived here for about 25 years, and it never gets any better. I still think it sounds super strange.
But I agree- it’s “the Metroplex” or “DFW Metroplex” or only occasionally “DFW area”.
“North Texas” gets a lot of mileage if they’re talking about the broader area outside of the urban area- that term would encompass places like Mineral Wells, Corsicana, Sherman, Greenville, Waxahachie, Hillsboro, etc…
the LA news uses the official names “the antelope valley” or the "high desert " normally
In Tennessee, in increasing order of controversy:
I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned I live in the Ozarks, and that is the term they tend to use–but it extends a bit further than the actual mountains. They will also just use southern Missouri and northern Arkansas if they want to separate the two.
Or, at least, that’s what they did back when I still actually watched local news.
Minneapolis/St Paul area is referred to as simply, “The Cities”
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone mention the GTHA on the news; maybe they use it in Hamilton.
There’s also Peel Region and York Region which refer to areas (north)west and (north)east of Toronto (respectively).
Which can be further divided into South Sound or North Sound depending on where you are relative to Seattle.
Unless you’re on the Olympic peninsula. We don’t speak of those folk.
I’m even more forgotten, on the Kitsap peninsula.
I live in either the “Southern Tier” or the “Finger Lakes.”. It seems to depend on if it’s real news (ST) or a feel good story.
All Cincinnati stations refer to “The Tri State” ( Oh. ky, Indiana) . DRiving north to relatives in “Badgerland” (Wisconsin) I am used to hearing about “Chicagoland” as well as “Quad Cities”
YES! We lived in Anoka for most of 1974 and they said that even then. I read somewhere that 50% of all Minnesotans live in the Twin Cities. Love the Twin Cities, even though the below -zero got REALLY old . All i have to do is re-watch “Grumpy Old men” and it all comes flooding back:… The snow the black cinders they dropped on the packed-snow roadways, the visqueen cocoons built around all outdoor construction projects in winter.
Sure but there is only one The Tri-State Area. I don’t know if there is a definitive answer to what was first known by that term but the area covered by the NYC local news is certainly the biggest in population.
Philly news also refers to the Tri-State area which in that case covers Eastern Pennsylvania, South Jersey and Northern Delaware.
I live in the Triangle now, but I used to live in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, basically composed of Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, and Portsmouth, though there are some outlying areas like Suffolk, Hampton and Newport News that are often included. It’s part of the larger Tidewater area, which covers the coastal plain of Virginia, so it sometimes just gets called Tidewater too.
DFW is usually referred to as “The Metroplex.”
A newscaster using the term is referring to Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, and Denton. Not sure there’s a consensus on whether it includes outlying exurbs and small burgs though.
Oddly, having grown up with the term “Chicagoland,” it’s never sounded weird to me in the least. I get that some people think it sounds like an amusement park or something, but try as I might, I can’t hear it, it’s so ingrained. (And our “tri-state” area is Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana, as reflected in “The Tri-State Tollway.”)
But those are their actual names, technically the Regional Municipality of Peel and Regional Municipality of York rather than some other descriptor.