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Originally Posted by JManc
Well, I am from New York (and from Upstate no less) and you would be correct.
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If I were to talk to people in my entourage randomly about cities in NYS other than NYC, most would probably be shocked that Buffalo, Albany and Rochester are similar in size (since it's the metro that counts). My sense is that they'd place Rochester and Albany in the same size category as Syracuse, with Buffalo quite a bit larger.
My guess is that most people in this area think that the Buffalo metro area is somewhat larger than the Ottawa(-Gatineau) metro area, which it isn't.
As has been said, this is partly due to sports (Buffalo is in the NFL, and has been in the NHL for far longer) but also other cultural icons and references to Buffalo like chicken wings, "shuffling off to Buffalo", and TV shows or movies with references to the city.