How to pronounce “upstate”(verb) in English

today. I'd rather be at home with my kids today. Running in the sprinkler. It's the first day of summer. But three years ago I made the, I guess, fortunate or unfortunate decisionto move my family to upstate New York where they can live with trees and flowers and chirping birds and clean water and fresh air. And shortly after moving there I found out that this incrediblething called hydrofracking was going to happen in my community. And when I first heard about