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My husband and I are living in Park Slope Brooklyn, with an adopted son (2y) from Guatemala (a darling). We love the diversity here, but are being slowly crushed by finances and space issues. We are highly considering moving to the Syracuse area, or surrounding towns like Homer, Cortland, Ithica etc. Any thoughts on divirsity, acceptance of multicultural familiies in these areas?
Thanks so much.
Best, Louise
My husband and I are living in Park Slope Brooklyn, with an adopted son (2y) from Guatemala (a darling). We love the diversity here, but are being slowly crushed by finances and space issues. We are highly considering moving to the Syracuse area, or surrounding towns like Homer, Cortland, Ithica etc. Any thoughts on divirsity, acceptance of multicultural familiies in these areas?
Thanks so much.
Best, Louise
Ithaca is not that close to Syracuse. Cortland and Ithaca are isolated small towns compared to the Syracuse area IMO.
-Without the college student population, the Cortland and Ithaca areas combined are only about 95,000 people.
-Without the college student population, the Syracuse urbanized area is about 500,000. That doesn't even include much of Oswego or Madison Counties....which are officially included in Syracuse's MSA.
Can't forget that if you want suburbs that are "diverse", I would go with the Jamesville-DeWitt and Liverpool school districts because they are the most diverse of the suburban school districts, in comparison to the other suburban school districts.
I really can't think of any suburban Syracuse areas that wouldn't accept multicultural families.
I think some neighborhoods (Westcott, etc) are a little bit overrecommended sometimes. Westcott has a casual hippy vibe, but it's also got its share of crime and especially with the student population, some of the housing stock there is not kept up well. Frankly I don't feel tremendously safe walking the side streets alone in Westcott. Granted, it's not the South Side or the Near West Side, but unless you absolutely must be in a granola area, there are other places to consider.
(Just playing devil's advocate, because usually "Westcott" is what everyone says when someone is looking for a "multicultural progressive neighborhood.")
Can't forget that if you want suburbs that are "diverse", I would go with the Jamesville-DeWitt and Liverpool school districts because they are the most diverse of the suburban school districts, in comparison to the other suburban school districts.
Yes, but I'd say North Syracuse schools are also "diverse".
Yes, but I'd say North Syracuse schools are also "diverse".
As a person that lives in the district like yourself, it depends on which schools you are talking about more than others. Bear Road and Roxboro Road Elementary schools are the most diverse schools in the district. Smith Road elementary is OK. Both of the Middle Schools, the Jr. High and the HS are decent too, but Liverpool is more diverse than North Syracuse in terms of the Northern suburbs. Check it out:https://www.nystart.gov/publicweb/District.do?year=2007&county=ONONDAGA&district=420 303060000 (broken link) (North Syracuse)
Onondaga is another relatively diverse school district with it's decent amounts of Native Americans and Blacks due to Nedrow with it's decent diversity:https://www.nystart.gov/publicweb/District.do?year=2007&county=ONONDAGA&district=421 201040000 (broken link)
I really can't think of any suburban Syracuse areas that wouldn't accept multicultural families.
I think some neighborhoods (Westcott, etc) are a little bit overrecommended sometimes. Westcott has a casual hippy vibe, but it's also got its share of crime and especially with the student population, some of the housing stock there is not kept up well. Frankly I don't feel tremendously safe walking the side streets alone in Westcott. Granted, it's not the South Side or the Near West Side, but unless you absolutely must be in a granola area, there are other places to consider.
(Just playing devil's advocate, because usually "Westcott" is what everyone says when someone is looking for a "multicultural progressive neighborhood.")
Again, it depends where you are in the Westcott/University neighborhood. If you live in the more residential part around Barry Park, it is very diverse and safe. You could go down Meadowbrook and that area is still very nice and safe too, with "diversity". You can also go down Euclid, going away from the campus and that also is nice. So, I would go with the Barry Park/Meadowbrook/Euclid(east of Westcott) part of that neighborhood and over going East.
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