I'm struggling to remember where I heard it, but the phrase "west side of the east midlands" is a perfectly cromulant description in the UK.
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"west side of the east midlands"
(I'm not from the UK) It makes sense to me. The Midlands is the middle part of England. It was later divided into the West and East Midlands, so you can live in the west side of East Midlands, as well as live in the east side of West Midlands. I think Derby or Leicester would count as "west side of East Midlands".
Oh you're from NWSEA? Me too! Not from the SW hopefully, everybody there (about 83M people) is a simpleton or a degenerate. I'm from SSE, where it's a completely different story.
We actually have something like that in Germany:
In the region of Westphalia, there's a part officially called East Westphalia (or Ostwestfalen in German). So you're always wondering, is it in the east or in the west?
Myanmar? My daughter-in-law is from there!
Now somebody explain why the Midwest is mostly in the east half of the US.
It's looks ridiculous now, but all the "north", "south", "midwest", and "west" designations make sense if you think about how they named them all when the US was young and everybody lived on the east coast.
It's also why the "south" stops before even reaching halfway across the southern half of the US.
Technically the full phrase is "Midwest Expansion", ie, expanding westward midway through the continent.
Thank you, that was very informative.
So you're a Nwsean, you say? Interesting...