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Franklin County. Ok, that definitely qualifies as "upstate". A term that is always debatable/relative. For some, it's a location that starts above Yonkers.
(Hmm, philosophizing here: If you use the term upstate to apply to all areas north of your location, relative to you; and not because you've geographically divided the state in half, does that mean a you're self-centered d-bag that thinks the world revolves around you, oblivious of other's perspective or detached from geographic realities? Can you tell this is my pet peeve when a magazine or someone from THE City (what city you ask?, well obliviously there's only one!) says they have property in upstate NY and their talking about someplace near Poughkeepsie! :banghead