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07-09-2009, 11:55 PM
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Why is Jamestown New York so dead?
Jamestown has a lot going for it so why is the economy so bad there? It has a relatively good sized population, a beautiful lake, an interstate, proximity to larger cities in the North East and is surrounded by an extremely beautiful countryside. But then you look at the economy you find that their are hardly any jobs or businesses.
Why do you think this is?
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07-10-2009, 08:13 PM
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It's in Upstate NY
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07-10-2009, 08:22 PM
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It's in Upstate NY....which is dominated by downstate policies that that raise the taxes to mind boggling levels which forces the jobs to go.
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07-13-2009, 11:35 PM
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Well as I remember it, Jamestown used to be a place where decent folk lived & worked. During the past couple decades as the population grew more ethnic, the production naturally declined. Now, many of these buggers are holding us down, as they have in so many other cities. It's time for us to wash this city of this plague.
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07-14-2009, 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by fatherjohnson
Well as I remember it, Jamestown used to be a place where decent folk lived & worked. During the past couple decades as the population grew more ethnic, the production naturally declined. Now, many of these buggers are holding us down, as they have in so many other cities. It's time for us to wash this city of this plague.
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Huh? I think it has more to do with the decline of manufacturing and industry. |
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07-14-2009, 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by ckhthankgod
Huh? I think it has more to do with the decline of manufacturing and industry.
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Sure...just like Detroit.  |
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07-15-2009, 08:46 AM
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Its not upstate. It is part of the southern tier of western NY.
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07-15-2009, 12:22 PM
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Its not upstate. It is part of the southern tier of western NY.
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It's considered Upstate NY. Anything above roughly the Hudson Valley is. Some in NYC would say anything above the Bronx. |
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07-15-2009, 04:40 PM
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Its not upstate. It is part of the southern tier of western NY.
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Yes it is.
Jamestown is in the Southern Tier region of Upstate NY. |
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07-15-2009, 05:43 PM
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take it up with Albany, we have an incredibly varied state that suffers because of the crybaby backwards antics of all those politicians WASTING space in empire state plaza.
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