If you go to the missions page and look at the "Localized Missions" thread, you'll see that people are creating chat rooms for their own regions. Everytime I go on the nyc chat page, no one's on! :( Where are you new yorkers??

http://us20.chatzy.com/18748519625863 (nyc)
http://us9.chatzy.com/99011049785068 (state)