Talk Like a Texan: How Texans Use “Down,” “Out,” “Over,” and “Up”

Re:Talk Like a Texan: How Texans Use “Down,” “Out,” “Over,” ... by jessriedel on Thursday February 08, 2018 @04:57PM (#16335945)

Up/down = north/south in my experience near DC as well, although they sometimes are follow the highway directions rather than geographic ones. People say they go "up" to NYC even though NYC is slightly more east of DC than north -- the point is that you take 95N to get there. This was even more extreme in Santa Barbara, CA, where the coastline turns east-west, and people talked about taking 101S "down" to Ventura or LA, even though those were 90% east.

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Re:Talk Like a Texan: How Texans Use “Down,” “Out,” “Over,” ... by repiret on Friday February 09, 2018 @12:12AM (#16338045)

In Santa Barbara I’ve herd (geeky) people refer to grid-north and grid-south to refer to directions along the axis that US101 and State St follow.

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