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NY state is overrated...anything north of albany is country
NJ is the REAL new york state..
General Stark, you usually make good sense but here I think you lost your marbles!
New York State is overrated.... because it has rural areas north of Albany? Possibly the dumbest comment I seen in a long time here on city data.
Lets see what NY has north of Albany that makes it is so overrated. Hmmm Lake George, The Adirondacks, Lake Champlain, The Thousand Islands, Lake Placid, Ticonderoga, Saratoga Springs....yup these horrible rural areas are such an embarrassment!
General Stark, you usually make good sense but here I think you lost your marbles!
New York State is overrated.... because it has rural areas north of Albany? Possibly the dumbest comment I seen in a long time here on city data.
Lets see what NY has north of Albany that makes it is so overrated. Hmmm Lake George, The Adirondacks, Lake Champlain, The Thousand Islands, Lake Placid, Ticonderoga, Saratoga Springs....yup these horrible rural areas are such an embarrassment!
I am a NYC native (Manhattan) and spent 20 years raising my kids on LI. I had never been to upstate NY until my younger daughter starting playing Ice Hockey and had to travel to games/tournaments/states all over upstate NY. She also transferred to SUNY Cortland in her Junior year. As a downstate residant of over half a century I had no idea what a great state NY really is until then.
There is a whole other other world in this state outside of NYC.
I am a NYC native (Manhattan) and spent 20 years raising my kids on LI. I had never been to upstate NY until my younger daughter starting playing Ice Hockey and had to travel to games/tournaments/states all over upstate NY. She also transferred to SUNY Cortland in her Junior year. As a downstate residant of over half a century I had no idea what a great state NY really is until then.
There is a whole other other world in this state outside of NYC.
I'm going to Albany SUNY next year (as a first choice) because I love upstate NY, more so than a lot of NJ (mostly SNJ), I just never spent enough time there to really see what it's like.
So the main reason why i chose to move there next year is because it's a place I always loved, but I'm just ignorant to the lifestyle.
So I'll just see how it goes.
I'm going to Albany SUNY next year (as a first choice) because I love upstate NY, more so than a lot of NJ (mostly SNJ), I just never spent enough time there to really see what it's like.
So the main reason why i chose to move there next year is because it's a place I always loved, but I'm just ignorant to the lifestyle.
So I'll just see how it goes.
Yo bro come here. Im a freshman at SUNY Albany. I love it here its a great school, and the parties aren't bad.
Anyway New York wins for me. Sorry I'm pretty biased. But New Jersey is awesome in its own way.
Yo bro come here. Im a freshman at SUNY Albany. I love it here its a great school, and the parties aren't bad.
Anyway New York wins for me. Sorry I'm pretty biased. But New Jersey is awesome in its own way.
Thanks for the input, I was just talking about the college with my guidance counselor today, it definitely looks great, but I just havn't heard good things about the city of Albany.
You have any input on that?
Uh, not even close. NJ is a very suburban state, and I have friends who live in places like Sparta, which is pretty much up in the mountains. And these kinds of towns are not unusual. I think it's pretty safe to say that NJ is mostly suburban. There are some urban places, yeah, but they aren't the majority. Unless I've been blind for the past twelve years.
That's northern NJ where the least people live in the state (besides Bergen). NJ's size compared to NY, is a whole lot less. Oh, and it's great there's breathtaking mountains, but they're only nice to look at for about a couple days, or at least in my opinion. I've been all over the U.S., and in my opinion NYC is all that NY has. You can say, "You haven't been there before!!!" or anything else, but I have.
Thanks for the input, I was just talking about the college with my guidance counselor today, it definitely looks great, but I just havn't heard good things about the city of Albany.
You have any input on that?
Yeah its basically a dump. But the only reason people really go downtown is to party, or go to Mary Janes bookstore. I haven't even really been around the city of Albany that much. But UAlbany will give you that college experience you see on television. Plus its relatively cheap.
Yo bro come here. Im a freshman at SUNY Albany. I love it here its a great school, and the parties aren't bad.
Anyway New York wins for me. Sorry I'm pretty biased. But New Jersey is awesome in its own way.
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Thanks for the input, I was just talking about the college with my guidance counselor today, it definitely looks great, but I just havn't heard good things about the city of Albany.
You have any input on that?
Wow, I just went to the SUNY college fair at the Javits Center yesterday, the Albany table was among the most crowded, I had to rush the crowd to get through lol, it must be a good school .
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Upstate NY is absolutely beautiful
