Moving from Central IL - Capitol Region or NC RTP ?

[Yuptag]

Originally Posted by taracer

The whole region is safe IMHO. You have to remember that the metro is sprawled out. So while Albany itself has about 100K people, the whole metro is near 1.2M. So yes, with near 1.2M people there is going to be some crime, but for the Capital Region it is a small percentage compared to the number of people that live here. I would almost bet that any similar sized metro area would be worse crime wise.

Your individual chance of crime is slim to none, and I say this as a 48 year old life long resident. Even the higher crime areas are not nearly as bad as people make them out to be on this forum.

The weather is not as bad as people make it to be either. It's not like the upper Midwest, it doesn't really get that cold, and it moderates here. For example, I just got 22 inches of snow at my house a couple of weeks ago. The past few days its been 50 and raining and the snow is gone. The somewhat cold spell is generally only for a couple of weeks in January and early February.

I love spring and fall, but summer is excellent in this area. It only gets really hot and humid for a couple of weeks, and you have so many options on what to do. You can go from the mountains to the ocean beach in a day trip.

As a side note, I also think that the Capital Region is one of the last places in the country where you can make your own way no matter who you are. It's not like Buffalo.

1.2 million people? Does that include Glens Falls 50 miles away from Albany and not much except Clifton Park in between?

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by Yuptag

1.2 million people? Does that include Glens Falls 50 miles away from Albany and not much except Clifton Park in between?

I think they meant that is the population of the Capital Region: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capita...rict,_New_York

The size of the Capital Region is about on par with a metro like Nashville in terms of land size.

[nebloke]

Having lived in the Capital Region for 6 years (but not any more) and having a brother that has lived in the RTP of NC for 27 years, I can tell you first hand that there isn't one single category that the Capital Region scores higher than the RTP of NC.

Economy and jobs - not even close, not even in the same ballpark, a joke of a comparison.
Housing - the capital region has a few nice neighborhoods, very few, the RTP area has hundreds of them.
Taxes - it's NY, as bad as it gets.
Weather - don't even get me started, 6 months of dark depressing cloud cover will take a toll on you.
People - like two different planets, almost polar opposite.

If you have visited both areas, it's impossible to think that you would have a better future in the Capital Region of NY over the RTP of NC.

Good luck.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by nebloke

Having lived in the Capital Region for 6 years (but not any more) and having a brother that has lived in the RTP of NC for 27 years, I can tell you first hand that there isn't one single category that the Capital Region scores higher than the RTP of NC.

Economy and jobs - not even close, not even in the same ballpark, a joke of a comparison.
Housing - the capital region has a few nice neighborhoods, very few, the RTP area has hundreds of them.
Taxes - it's NY, as bad as it gets.
Weather - don't even get me started, 6 months of dark depressing cloud cover will take a toll on you.
People - like two different planets, almost polar opposite.

If you have visited both areas, it's impossible to think that you would have a better future in the Capital Region of NY over the RTP of NC.

Good luck.

I don't know about the highlighted part. There are quite a few nice suburban and even city neighborhoods in the area.

Again, the Capital Region offers close proximity to mountains, NYC and Montreal by train, Boston isn't that far away, a range of city/urban housing, walk ability, nice small towns/cities like Saratoga Springs and Lake George and a relatively low/average overall cost of living, among other things.