I live in the United States, which means I meet a lot of people from Upstate New York.

(That joke takes a minute to sink in, so I’ll pause here momentarily.)

For a long time no one claimed to be from Upstate New York, but now in the Bills-are-actually-good era, folks are no longer embarrassed to admit it.

Me? I’m from the Southern Tier, not Western New York, so I just can’t.

I don’t like snow, I call it soda, not pop, and I still don’t like the Bills.