Type the name of any Hudson Valley town into Google and you may be surprised by what the rest of the world thinks of us.  A search for  "Poughkeepsie Is..." is automatically completed by Google with the most commonly asked questions:

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Apparently, the biggest inquiry about Poughkeepsie is why it's so "ghetto".  Also, there seems to be a lot of people who wonder whether the Queen City is actually fact or fiction.

Turning to Newburgh, a simple search of "Why is Newburgh so..." leads to these disturbing questions about personal safety:

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Finally,Google may be our first warning that the hipsters have truly started their takeover of our entire listening area.  Searching for "The Hudson Valley is..." brings up this terrifying result:

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I guess it's just a matter of time before we start growing beards and wearing ironic t-shirts.

Searches for other Hudson Valley towns proved a little harder, since there are so many Kingstons, Middletowns and Beacons in other parts of the world.

So what do you think?  Did Google nail it?

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