Upstate New York (Raleigh, Wilmington, Apex: 2009, house, school districts)

[SMMJG]

Is anyone from the Upstate New York area. If so, how did your relocation go? What areas are comparable to the suburbs of Syracuse?

[Desdemona123]

Originally Posted by SMMJG

Is anyone from the Upstate New York area. If so, how did your relocation go? What areas are comparable to the suburbs of Syracuse?

You know....the second you go looking for just a replacement of where you've come from....is about a second before you are going to be unhappy with your move.

[I'minformed2]

I am originally from Rochester and moved to Wake County 12 years ago. This is a nice area to live; but I am now ready to head back to Upstate NY. I just miss it and I want my family to be there. There is a sense of "home" and community in Upstate NY that can't, for me at least, be found anywhere else. Also, to get a little less "sentimental" and a little more "business" the school systems down here can't hold a candle to the suburban school districts in Buffalo, Rochester, or Syracuse.

[Desdemona123]

Originally Posted by i'minformed

I am originally from Rochester and moved to Wake County 12 years ago. This is a nice area to live; but I am now ready to head back to Upstate NY. I just miss it and I want my family to be there. There is a sense of "home" and community in Upstate NY that can't, for me at least, be found anywhere else. Also, to get a little less "sentimental" and a little more "business" the school systems down here can't hold a candle to the suburban school districts in Buffalo, Rochester, or Syracuse.

Please, I've seen what the schools around Buffalo graduate.....Wake County stacks up prett well in comparrison.

[xray42]

Originally Posted by SMMJG

Is anyone from the Upstate New York area. If so, how did your relocation go? What areas are comparable to the suburbs of Syracuse?

HI SMMJG , i am from utica, ny i am relocating to charlotte , hopefully in the spring as soon as my house sells.I was in charlotte last summer , and will be going agin next weeknd. There are several areas like syracuse but a little different.I am looking to escape these winters, the snow and cold.
good luck with your search, i went to asheville, very nice town,a littel more remote, depends on what you are looking for, it has a very central ny feel with the mountains.

[dugan]

Hey SMMJG, im doing just the opposite. Going to a place that is nothing like what i left. A change is what im looking for. Not someplace that i go to and say well this place doesnt have this or that like back home did. Somewhere were i can just let it be what it is, and enjoy everything it has to offer. Not compare to where i left. Leaving Niagara Falls, January 22nd/Arriving Wilmington NC, January 22nd. Can't wait,let the adventure begin. Dugan

[BenNY]

Originally Posted by dugan

Hey SMMJG, im doing just the opposite. Going to a place that is nothing like what i left. A change is what im looking for. Not someplace that i go to and say well this place doesnt have this or that like back home did. Somewhere were i can just let it be what it is, and enjoy everything it has to offer. Not compare to where i left. Leaving Niagara Falls, January 22nd/Arriving Wilmington NC, January 22nd. Can't wait,let the adventure begin. Dugan

Excellent attitude!!!!

[I'minformed2]

Originally Posted by Desdemona123

Please, I've seen what the schools around Buffalo graduate.....Wake County stacks up prett well in comparrison.

yeah, in the inner cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse...and any older city, the schools are crap. The test scores are about the same for suburban disctricts in upstate ny as in wake co..... but wake co. is so unorganized, underfunded.... it's a mess. Reassignments, bussing, overcrowding. A county-wide school system just doesn't work as well as individual town school districts in general.

[Desdemona123]

Originally Posted by i'minformed

yeah, in the inner cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse...and any older city, the schools are crap. The test scores are about the same for suburban disctricts in upstate ny as in wake co..... but wake co. is so unorganized, underfunded.... it's a mess. Reassignments, bussing, overcrowding. A county-wide school system just doesn't work as well as individual town school districts in general.

Not saying we couldn't do better or that there are no problems....but we are not underfunded right now (the bond passed)....I have never found the busing to be a problem (some parents are whiners I've learned) and there are already plans in place to deal with the over-crowding (with the funding).

And keep in mind, you are coparing apples and oranges....small subburban districts with a large urban one. And even then Wake county can hold it's own. Test scores only tell part of a story anyway......there are some schools with great 'test results' that I wouldn't send my child into.

[I'minformed2]

you don't think we are underfunded? You don't think bussing is a problem? Perhaps you've never lived in South Raleigh and had your kids go to school almost 30 minutes away in Apex. Yes, the bond was passed and that will certainly help some.... but it is a drop in the bucket. Wake County needs something like 17 new schools by 2009. The bond is enough for, if I remember correctly, 5.