Cain, Loki and anyone else in the Tri-State Area

I've never heard anyone using it, regarding any set of three states. If it makes you happy, though.

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Originally Posted by littlelolligagged

I've never heard anyone using it, regarding any set of three states. If it makes you happy, though.

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I'm neutral on it. Just reporting the facts. It isn't the whole state, just the area that's close to the Ohio and Indiana borders. I'm surprised at the difficulty so many are having with this. :|

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Originally Posted by EyeKhan

I'm neutral on it. Just reporting the facts. It isn't the whole state, just the area that's close to the Ohio and Indiana borders. I'm surprised at the difficulty so many are having with this. :|

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Originally Posted by wiggin

I'm actually not too interested to meet any of you chaps. I think actually putting faces and voices on everyone's posts would seriously screw with my mind. I've got my imagined 'tones' for all of you, and I'm happy to keep them that way. ;)

...that, and the fact that I'd probably be depressingly similar to how you all have imagined me.

That being said, if anyone interesting swings through Baltimore (or DC on a weekend), you're always welcome to try looking me up.

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I'm probably closer to you than you know. :eek: It would be kinda creepy, wouldn't it, if we found out OMG I know people YOU know, so-and-so works at Johns Hopkins and his sister is married to so-and-so who works for Boston Analytics and OMFG they live next door to a guy I knew in Evanston.....

*gulp*

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Originally Posted by EyeKhan

Any state border area where three states come together can be referred to as a tri-state area, no? That's how I've always heard the area referred to... :downcast:

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Tri-state area is common, yeah. Depends on the region, though. We also have "Quad cities", and "The Region", but only midwesterners might know those terms. My tri-state is PA, Maryland and Virginia, but sometimes it's PA, Maryland and Delaware. Or PA, NJ and some other state, even West Virginia, they don't have to be contiguous. Depends on which part of PA you live in, and what states are borders.

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Originally Posted by EyeKhan

It is? Country's best kept secret...? :confused:

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It's not a secret, at least as far as I know. Back before the e-commerce bubble burst and the telco's went bankrupt, practically every big name domestic tech company had a large corporate complex here, employing thousands or even tens of thousands of workers (Worldcomm, Compuserve, IBM, and maybe one or two more I've forgotten were all in the 10k+ employee club around here). And once that bubble burst, every other company in the region realized that there were scores of unemployed techies in the city, and they could get a great deal on techie labor and bargain basement prices on shiny, slightly used datacenters if they wanted to. (And the companies that didn't go under still have a big corporate presence out here - we still have a massive IBM presence here, for example: lots of jobs and billions of dollars in infrastructure that won't be going away any time soon.)

If your local Ohio tech economy is so great, then why have you not been able to "get away" (even to Cincinnati) for over a year?

That's easy, he's fucking indispensable. She-it.

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Originally Posted by GGT

If your local Ohio tech economy is so great, then why have you not been able to "get away" (even to Cincinnati) for over a year?

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Gays.

No no, the line is "wine, song, women"