“Will you be up here over the holidays?”
“No, I probably won’t be down for awhile.”
My cousin and I used to have conversations like this when she lived in Tucson. I say “up” when someone is going north, as if we’re all on a giant wall map. Other people say “up” when they’re headed to higher elevation.
Tucson is south of Phoenix, but it’s at a higher elevation. If you were headed to Phoenix from Tucson, would you say you’re going up to Phoenix or down to Phoenix?
I don’t think one is more correct than the other, but the language geek in me is curious what everyone else says.
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