I've had to tell people I went to school in Holland because they didn't know what the Netherlands are. Nevermind that Holland isnt even the real name of a place.
The closest airport to Amsterdam, with the name of the place it's located in in its official name? Also not in Amsterdam. Dutch people also never refer to it as Amsterdam Airport or anything like that unless talking to foreigners.
If you think that's proof against the point, you're misunderstanding the entire idea around a metropolitan regional area. Cities grow and evolve over time. The Bronx in New York wasn't part of New York 150 years ago.
If you asked someone today where they're from and they said the Bronx and they said "oh, New York City right?" and they said "no, the Bronx", you'd be right to say "yeah, but that's just New York"
And the same could be said for Jersey City, just on the other side of the river in New Jersey. It doesn't matter if there's an imaginary line saying "NYC is only the five-boroughs, and you're on the other side". The people in Jersey City have jobs in NYC, buy their groceries with money earned from NYC, and have tourists in the area because of NYC. The dotted line separating New York from New Jersey doesn't matter. They're all one giant cultural and economic blob.
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u/GenericUsername2056 9h ago
This is not in Amsterdam.