There are so many New Yawkers down her that we call this southern New Yawk. I think the area we all lived in was the best on LI.
It was 47degrees last night I could see my breath, here in upstate NY, In the Catskill Mountains just below the Adirondack Mountains. How cold did it get in Florida?
I don't know anyone with that accent around here, they only have it down in little ole New Yawk City and Long Island. 90% of the state is woods, state forests and parks, and farm land, I've never heard any of them with the NYC accent, unless they moved here from down there.
Funny story, drove to Florida to visit Disney, stopped in GA for gas, nice man opened the door for my ten yr old girl, talked to her for awhile. When we left she said 'he talked funny'
I says he probably thought you talk funny, she says 'no I don't I talk English!' Lol! Love the southern accent, Florida doesn't have it though.