Norwich (New York, Albany, Boston: home, wedding, school district)

[Jeromeville]

Was recently in the Norwich area and was curious about this town. The downtown area looked surprisingly busy and well kept. What is the job situation like there? major employers? I have a cousin who is thinking of moving back north and is looking for recommendations for small towns in upstate NY and this one looked nice.

[ckhthankgod]

Well, it did have a big Proctor and Gamble operation there, but now they have Norwich Pharmaceuticals: Pharmaceutical Contract Manufacturer | Pharmaceutical Outsourcing Provider | Rx and OTC Clinical Trial Support | Solid Dose Manufacturing | Norwich Pharmaceuticals NBT Bank is another place to look: NBT Bank - Reach for your Star! Chenango Memorial Hospital also might be a place to look as well: https://secure.uhs.net/uhsjobs/search.asp Here's more jobs within 25 miles of Norwich: Norwich, NY 13815 Jobs | Indeed.com

It is a nice, neat city of about 8,000 or so. It did have around 10,000 people in 1970. So, they have felt the loss of people as well.

Here's more on the area: Norwich New York
The Evening Sun | Chenango County, NY's Hometown Newspaper
Chenango County Chamber of Commerce
Norwich (city), New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norwich City School District
Chenango County

Are there any other similarly sized cities that you want to know about as well?

[ki0eh]

I went on a hike near there a couple of weeks ago with http://www.bullthistlehiking.org/ Since there were a few pre-retirement folks on the hike I asked what they did. One grew up in the area and got sick of living in Boston so he works for a group home and as a wedding photographer (was a commercial/advertising photographer before). Another worked at an aerospace company affiliated with GE.

There are three small-town history/auto museums I noticed in town on Rt 23 just east of Rt 12 that might be worth a stop for connoisseurs of such things.

NBT must have gotten bigger in my time away from upstate NY, at another point in our summer's travels we stayed near Wolf Road in Albany area and noticed a big NBT building in that area.