moving to castorland (New York, Syracuse, Binghamton: home, employment, movies)

[mhandelong]

need positive n negative info about castorland possible move from mt pocono ,pa I am 43 years old married with 4 year old.

[proulxfamily]

I'd never heard of it before so I searched on Wikipedia... sorry I can't help you more.
Castorland, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[davidmil]

They have lots of snow. LOL Seriously, it's the foothills of the Adirondacks. You will have snow. My brother says they have snow deep in the woods that's 2 years old. It's pretty rural and layed back living. Watertown is the closest town of any size. Camp Drum military base there has kept it growing while the rest of Upstate NY has recession and no jobs problems.

[proulxfamily]

Originally Posted by davidmil

They have lots of snow. LOL Seriously, it's the foothills of the Adirondacks. You will have snow. My brother says they have snow deep in the woods that's 2 years old. It's pretty rural and layed back living. Watertown is the closest town of any size. Camp Drum military base there has kept it growing while the rest of Upstate NY has recession and no jobs problems.

It's Fort Drum, I believe.

And where's the recession in CNY? Have you seen the employment offered classifieds of the Post Standard lately? There are at least a dozen tiny print pages of ads EACH WEEK. In addition, we bought our first home in June and our property value has gone UP a good amount since then. The very rural areas may be hurting more - construction and related businesses have almost certainly slowed WAY down... but that, in no way, spells a recession for the entire area. Syracuse is well in the midst of recreating itself as a healthcare, educational, and technological hub of those industries... and just the classifieds are proof of that.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by proulxfamily

It's Fort Drum, I believe.

And where's the recession in CNY? Have you seen the employment offered classifieds of the Post Standard lately? There are at least a dozen tiny print pages of ads EACH WEEK. In addition, we bought our first home in June and our property value has gone UP a good amount since then. The very rural areas may be hurting more - construction and related businesses have almost certainly slowed WAY down... but that, in no way, spells a recession for the entire area. Syracuse is well in the midst of recreating itself as a healthcare, educational, and technological hub of those industries... and just the classifieds are proof of that.

True, but people think in terms of the mentality of the past. Syracuse actually is holding steady and areas like Binghamton, the Hudson Valley, Ithaca and Saratoga Springs have been doing fine too.

As for Castorland, that is in the Beaver River school district. Very, very rural and the closest decent community is Lowville, a village of about 4,000 people. Watertown is the closest city and mnay people from Castorland would go there for say the mall, movies and so on. Carthage/West Carthage, two villages with a combined population of about 5,000 is pretty close too.