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I can't even remember the last time I saw a car driving around Rochester with rust. It's rare.
You must not be looking for it then cause they do rot badly from the bottom up. This guy in the video below is in Vermont but it shows how quickly they rust in that part of the country. That truck is not very old at all but it is already a rust bucket.
You must not be looking for it then cause they do rot badly from the bottom up. This guy in the video below is in Vermont but it shows how quickly they rust in that part of the country. That truck is not very old at all but it is already a rust bucket.
You must not be looking for it then cause they do rot badly from the bottom up. This guy in the video below is in Vermont but it shows how quickly they rust in that part of the country. That truck is not very old at all but it is already a rust bucket.
I know you didn't. That's just the biggest stereotype I hear about Omaha. I was surprised it wasn't in the OP. LOL
Those pictures are beautiful. I'd love to see the first one in the fall.
Yeah, the first one was of one of the Finger lakes in Canandaigua Lake. Pictures 2 and 3 were of the Erie Canal in the villages of Spencerport and Fairport. I believe both have Erie Canal festivals too. Picture 4 was of Charlotte Beach, which is actually still within Rochester city limits.
They're very different cities appealing to different types of people I think. Rochester's more white collar and has northeastern and (some) midwestern influences, whereas Omaha is more blue collar/midwestern focusing more on agriculture.
Actually, Omaha is extremely white collar, being we have a huge presence of insurance companies. Also, health care is huge here and in the past few years many new hospitals have been built and almost all of the old ones expanded or are still expanding. And 5 fortune 500 companies does not make a blue collar town by any means. We also have 3 national research hospitals and 4 universities with 3,000+ students. Omaha is by no means a blue collar town.
I guess I just would have a problem with Omaha in the sense that it seems to be surrounded by a lot of nothing. What else is in Nebraska that would be interesting? (not a rhetorical question, I'm curious to know.) Rochester is surrounded by beautiful natural attractions, other interesting smaller cities, and historical landmarks. You don't have to board a plane to get to any of it, either.
Actually, Omaha is extremely white collar, being we have a huge presence of insurance companies. Also, health care is huge here and in the past few years many new hospitals have been built and almost all of the old ones expanded or are still expanding. And 5 fortune 500 companies does not make a blue collar town by any means. We also have 3 national research hospitals and 4 universities with 3,000+ students. Omaha is by no means a blue collar town.
Sorry, I didn't mean to call Omaha blue collar, per se (although it being in the midwest inherently gives it a more blue collar midwestern feel than most cities in the north east)...I was really just trying to compare the cultural differences between the places, and point Rochester is not as blue collar as other Great Lakes cities (typically referred to as the "rust belt"), such as Cleveland, Detroit, or Buffalo. Rochester sometimes gets lumped in with these cities, but I view it more as the transition zone between the north east and the great lakes region (at least culturally) with Buffalo directly to the west and Syracuse (and Albany) directly to the east.
I am not disagreeing with you that Omaha doesn't have its share of white collar employment options, but Rochester isn't as blue collar as the midwest (this is, in many ways, what defines the midwest culture).
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