All You People Leaving Upstate NY Read This ...

[inpd]

So what. Doesn't mean the area is bad.
A little history lesson my dear chap.

1. There was this thing called the Erie Canal.
2. ALL goods coming to NY (just about the entire country)
ferried through the Erie canal up to the great
lakes, down the Mississippi.
3. It provided for many Erie canal related jobs
4. The on-ramp was Albany the off-ramp was Buffalo.
5. Mr Stanford built a nice railroad
6. Erie can shut down. Progress is good.

Take three deep breaths and repeat after me:
"Upstate New York is good"
"Must think happy thoughts"
"Must stop brining people down to my level" ...

Originally Posted by itSmellsBAD

Historical populationsCensus
Pop. %±18308,668
—184018,213110.1%
185042,261132.0%
186081,12992.0%
1870117,71445.1%
1880155,13431.8%
1890255,66464.8%
1900352,38737.8%
1910423,71520.2%
1920506,77519.6%
1930573,07613.1%
1940575,9010.5%
1950580,1320.7%
1960532,759-8.2%
1970462,768-13.1%
1980357,870-22.7%
1990328,123-8.3%
2000292,648-10.8%
Est. 2005 279,745-4.4%

The Rise and Fall of Buffalo NY.
The numbers say all that needs to be said.

Keep pumping this area for all it's worth. I'll just
push the handle down on the toilet and flush.

What are you going to do when the Buffalo Bills leave the area? The suicide hotline will be ringing off the hook when that happens......and it's just around the corner. It will happen long before they build that new bridge over the Niagara River, I can assure you of that!

[jbertol2]

Originally Posted by itSmellsBAD

Historical populationsCensus
Pop. %±18308,668
—184018,213110.1%
185042,261132.0%
186081,12992.0%
1870117,71445.1%
1880155,13431.8%
1890255,66464.8%
1900352,38737.8%
1910423,71520.2%
1920506,77519.6%
1930573,07613.1%
1940575,9010.5%
1950580,1320.7%
1960532,759-8.2%
1970462,768-13.1%
1980357,870-22.7%
1990328,123-8.3%
2000292,648-10.8%
Est. 2005 279,745-4.4%

Those statistics reflect the population of the city proper, and not the metropolitan area. Yes, I know the metro area has also lost some population, but it isn't nearly that significant. You have to remember that interstates began being built in the 1950s, which facilitated the efflux of people from the city and into the outlying areas.

Here are some other cities that had the same thing happen:
Boston: 1950 - 800,000 // 2000 - 590,000
Philadelphia: 1950 - 2,000,000 // 2000 - 1,500,000
Baltimore: 1950 - 949,000 // 2000 - 640,000

Honestly, do you enjoy being so negative?

Originally Posted by itSmellsBAD

Keep pumping this area for all it's worth. I'll just
push the handle down on the toilet and flush.

Quite the noble cause.

[inpd]

Originally Posted by jbertol2

Honestly, do you enjoy being so negative?

What irks me about these people is that they purposefully use
incorrect facts.

Another one itsmellsbad cohorts started spouting of some
rubbish that upstate taxes were so much more higher than
Sacramento.

Well fortunately, I live in Sacramento and corrected their
"misunderstanding".

Then they continued and start comparing the taxes on a $200K home
in Buffallo and a $325K home in Sacramento ... Except $325K
will not get you much of a home in CA. Turns out the person didn't
even own a home.