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Originally Posted by OrangeHudson
What seems to be true is no matter where you're (Suburban, City, Rural) McMansion homes seem to be the new type of construction.
What many people don't reliaze is the commute cost an arm and leg. There is the outrageous rip-off parking fees, Metro-North monthly ticket and if needed a metrocard.
I would rather live in an established neighborhood and just update the house where needed. I don't need a ball room in my house... There was an article a few years ago in the NYT where people who had been living in the outer burbs were finally realizing that a little less house is a fair exchange for an easier commute to NYC. The Mc Mansions are starting to lose their luster..
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Originally Posted by ckhthankgod
I'll keep my 10-15 minute commute, thanks.
I wonder if this rail initiative goes through, if people would move further north?
The plan I saw has lines all the way to Kingston for comuter rail. Seems a little far for me bu I am sure there are people doing it now. I wonder if the MTA tax will be extended north if these routes come on line....
The plan I saw has lines all the way to Kingston for comuter rail. Seems a little far for me bu I am sure there are people doing it now. I wonder if the MTA tax will be extended north if these routes come on line....
The plan I saw has lines all the way to Kingston for comuter rail. Seems a little far for me bu I am sure there are people doing it now. I wonder if the MTA tax will be extended north if these routes come on line....
Never will happen. There is already very strong opposition towards the MTA in the Northern Counties of NYC especially West of the Hudson.
Even if that wanted to. The MTA will need to spend millions upon millions of dollars for new stations, ask CSX for trackage rights and at least double track maybe triple track (is there space?...used to be double track though). All this money spent for how many customers will actually use it?
I would rather live in an established neighborhood and just update the house where needed. I don't need a ball room in my house... There was an article a few years ago in the NYT where people who had been living in the outer burbs were finally realizing that a little less house is a fair exchange for an easier commute to NYC. The Mc Mansions are starting to lose their luster..
I despise McMansions too. In a rural or suburan setting they just make the area look boring, bland, and cheap. In a city setting, the mansion just sticks out and makes the rest of the neighborhood look ugly.
I don't know if you've been to Queens lately, but in Forest Hills & Kew Gardens etc decent modest homes from pre 1965ish are being leveled down completely - right to a bare plot of dirt land. Then a tall UGLY McMansion replaces it. The houses completely stick out from the rest of the neighborhood like a sour lemon.
No surprises here. Would have though Ithaca would have grown by a little more than it did; but other than that pretty much what I would have expected.
Buffalo....what's the deal? Seems like they keep shrinking by really large margins while Rochester, only an hour away, manages to show some growth.
What's intersting is that Rochester's GDP is larger than Buffalo's, despite having an NFL team, a NHL team, 2 casinos, huge amounts of state and federal employees (Rochester doesn't even have a state office building), Tourism, Canadians flooding their airport and malls, the huge Niagara Power Project, the built in advantage of being thought of as the "big" city upstate and they get about 10x the money from Albany and Washington for their projects.
And Rochester lost 52,000 Kodak jobs, 8,000 Xerox jobs, but still managed to grow. It's possible that Rochester could overtake Buffalo by the next census.
Having travelled through the Albany area during "rush hour" there are plenty of people coming/going on the Thruway, North Way, etc. They are paying tolls and driving the miles. I think it's a misconception that everyone in Raleigh for example is trying to get to the same location.
Wrong! There are places of the Thruway in Albany that are free. You have to get on specific exit and off a specific exit. Those the two most heavily used exits on the Thruway around Albany during rush hour.
The Northway has ALWAYS been FREE and is still. I-87 south of Albany is NOT the Northway and is not free.
Haven't driven around much of Raleigh have you? Due to NC's very agressive annexation laws, Raleigh grew in size very quickly.
What's intersting is that Rochester's GDP is larger than Buffalo's, despite having an NFL team, a NHL team, 2 casinos, huge amounts of state and federal employees (Rochester doesn't even have a state office building), Tourism, Canadians flooding their airport and malls, the huge Niagara Power Project, the built in advantage of being thought of as the "big" city upstate and they get about 10x the money from Albany and Washington for their projects.
And Rochester lost 52,000 Kodak jobs, 8,000 Xerox jobs, but still managed to grow. It's possible that Rochester could overtake Buffalo by the next census.
Rochester has a lot of high-tech companies (aka optics capital of the country, traditionally) in addition to the most well-known med center in upstate NY (U of R -Strong Memorial)
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