Albany vs Rochester (Buffalo, Syracuse, Troy: universities, tax, club)

[I'minformed2]

Jim...how old are you....16? 15? You sure don't act like an adult. If you are over 20, you are obviously immiature and YOU have the inferiority complex...pretty sad, but oh well, I guess arrogance (not to mention ignorance) is just a way of life in CT.

[garmin239]

Oh. So you spent a very brief amount of time in the area. That makes you a better judge on the area than anybody else.

[smalltownusa]

Originally Posted by JiminCT

No Wegmans girl dumping...my trip to Wegmans was to buy Zweigels to bring back home after spending a week for work out in WNY. I live in Connecticut and fortunately not Rochester. Its on the wrong side of progressive and progress...with an overhyped supermarket (I've also been to the one in Fayetteville in Syracuse).

What specifically in Wegmans is SOOO much better our markets in New England.....please enlighten us. Cher liked Wegmans....does Cher even eat?

A response to this is going to be a lesson in futility as Jim apparently is too close minded to respect other people's opinion.....suffice it to say my relatives in both West Hartford, CT and Andover, MA (both locations very high end communities) are also throughtly impressed with Wegmans to the extent that Christmas present requests always include foods they can only get at Wegmans....

We in Rochester know what an amazingly high level of quality Wegmans supplies and what they give back to the community at large. When the name Wegmans is behind it, you can be guaranteed it's 100 percent.......and in this day and age of food-borne illnesses, knowing Wegmans is looking after the health of their food products 24/7 means a lot to many of us......'nuff said

Catching on now Jim?

[LiptonGuy]

I would go with the Albany region. And not just because I used to live there, years ago.

It's just as affordable as Rochester and the job market is better in Albany. Living in the Albany region, you also will be relatively close (3 hrs or less), to Connecticut, N.Y. City, Boston + other areas, if you wanted to get away for the weekend.

The weather in the summer, might also be a bit more humid (in Rochester), so close to the lake.

[I'minformed2]

Actually, it's the exact opposite...Lake Ontario works as a natural air condictionar/temerpature moderater it keeps Rochester's (and Buffalo's for that matter) temperatures higher in the winter, and lower in the summer that Albany and interior Upstate NY/New England.

[LiptonGuy]

Originally Posted by i'minformed

Actually, it's the exact opposite...Lake Ontario works as a natural air condictionar/temerpature moderater it keeps Rochester's (and Buffalo's for that matter) temperatures higher in the winter, and lower in the summer that Albany and interior Upstate NY/New England.

I stand corrected, on the issue of humidity in Rochester.

I have heard that the summers in Buffalo are very....very comfortable. And Rochester is very close, you that would make sense.

I would love to live in Buffalo in the summer, but not the winter. Because of the snow.. Not that Albany doesn't get its fair share of snow. It does.

[I'minformed2]

No, its true, that's the tradeoff....winter isn't quite as cold in Buffalo and Rochester and summer isn't as humid as Albany because of the lakes...but also because of the lakes, they get about twice as much snow. Personally I think both areas are nice and if job market were a huge issue for me (i'm self employed and work from home so its not) I would consider moving to Albany instead of Rochester if I couldnt' find a job in Rochester (although, for the record, I would MUCH rather live in Rochester, but that's largely becasue of family and that its my hometown). I'd rather live in Albany than here in Raleigh.

[JiminCT]

"We in Rochester know what an amazingly high level of quality Wegmans supplies and what they give back to the community at large. When the name Wegmans is behind it, you can be guaranteed it's 100 percent......."

Ooooh yes I get it. This is somehow different from Big Y and Price Chopper. Whole Foods too....

So tell me why young people are continuing to flood out of Western NY? They dont seem to be in Albany.

[garmin239]

Having lived in areas with both price choppers and wegmans I can say that wegmans is far superior. Wegmans has a greater selection of everything. I can get more obscure beers that I can't get at a price chopper or other grocery stores. The organic food selection is also great compared to other chains.
And young people arent flooding out of WNY. Some have left yes, but not that many.

[smalltownusa]

Originally Posted by JiminCT

"We in Rochester know what an amazingly high level of quality Wegmans supplies and what they give back to the community at large. When the name Wegmans is behind it, you can be guaranteed it's 100 percent......."

Ooooh yes I get it. This is somehow different from Big Y and Price Chopper. Whole Foods too....

So tell me why young people are continuing to flood out of Western NY? They dont seem to be in Albany.

Because they are young people and they should leave IMO....I have 3 of my own and two left the Rochester area for CT and NYC (the 3rd is content to stay local). Having fabulous Wegmans here wasn't going to stop them! The CT daughter came back and works at the NICU at Strong and is married to an atty and doing quite well for themselves. The NYC son will probably never be back or as others tell me, not until he's family oriented as Rochester hands down is a family-friendly city....if you think young kids with money on their minds and stars in their eyes are going to stick around for great groceries you don't get out much.....BTW, Whole Foods combined with Wegmans would be the piece de resistance of the grocery world !!!!!!!!