Considering a move to Syracuse (New York, Buffalo: sale, apartment, rent)
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Thank you VintageSunlight! I think renting first is definitely the wise thing to do. Thanks also for your heating suggestions- and we're really not big city people so I'm glad to hear it's not like NYC. I like the Santa Barbara / Bakersfield analogy Cazenovia looks gorgeous and we'll definitely be checking that out!
I was eager to leave for the same reasons and an opportunity came up, so I jumped. I also never visited Syracuse before moving here. At the very least, visit during the winter. After that, I would rent for at least a year before buying.
If you liked the gray skies of England, you may love it here. Hope you like snow too because we get more snow than anywhere in the country.
Westlake is pretty nice. You might be a little let down by the neighborhood you pointed out. I would also consider private school for your kids if you want to live within the city limits.
Keep in mind that the snow average is due to Oswego County being in the metro area and it is in the Snow Belt. So, the metro snowfall can vary.
Some suburbs are more diverse than others. Around here, Liverpool, Jameville-DeWitt, Onondaga Central, North Syracuse and LaFayette historically have more diversity and it manifests itself in different ways. For instance, LaFayette Schools are about 30% Native American and some schools in the other districts can have notable to decent amounts of students of 2 or 3 "minority" groups. So, you can find a degree of diversity in some areas of the suburbs. Here are examples of some suburban elementary schools that illustrate this to some degree: C Grant Grimshaw School - Public School
Actually CD lists syracuse as the snowiest city in the US.
And they list Clay as number two and Utica three.
So if Clay is seperate its not the metro.
It is probably for cities/towns of 50,000 or more. If it included smaller cities, I'm sure that Oswego would #1, for sure. Here's an old thread that gets into the variation in snowfall averages: http://www.city-data.com/forum/syrac...cuse-area.html
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Cazenovia looks gorgeous and we'll definitely be checking that out!
