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I get the feeling the people between these cities don't particularly like each other.
People in Buffalo seem to think people in Rochester are stuffy and aloof, and think they're all that, maybe because they are insecure that over the last 30 years they have lost the title of undisputed top dog in Upstate NY. A title that IMO they share with Rochester.
People in Rochester seem to look down on their neighbor to the west, and seem like they have something to prove.
Do you guys agree?
I get the feeling the people between these cities don't particularly like each other.
People in Buffalo seem to think people in Rochester are stuffy and aloof, and think they're all that, maybe because they are insecure that over the last 30 years they have lost the title of undisputed top dog in Upstate NY. A title that IMO they share with Rochester.
People in Rochester seem to look down on their neighbor to the west, and seem like they have something to prove.
Do you guys agree?
Nope, not at all from the Buffalo perspective.
Thoughts about Rochester are pretty much the same as thoughts about Syracuse, Jamestown, Binghamton, or even Albany for that matter.
Another city in NY, different but similar, people about the same as Buffalo, no strong feelings one way or the other.
The only geographical differences that tend to create strong feelings are between NYC/LI and the rest of NY State. Much of that relationship is determined by the large number of NYC/LI students attending colleges upstate (acting as entitled college kids tend to do), and the huge political/cultural pull that NYC has over the rest of the state.
I think the cities are generally pretty similar but when every time you have a conversation with someone from Buffalo and they find out you are from Rochester and immediately try to look down on you, it's hard not to feel like you "have something to prove" like you said. Rochester's local media doesn't help by constantly pushing this weird agenda that we need to be more like Buffalo and completely ignoring the positive things that we already have going for us. In general, I think western NY is obviously better off if we both succeed, I just hope Rochester succeeds a little more.
Last edited by UncleBenny; 07-27-2016 at 07:20 AM..
I've never felt any animosity between Roc and Buffalo. Sometimes I feel like people from Rochester are a little salty because Buffalo gets more national attention because they have 2 major sports teams even though both metros are the same size. But then again I think Buffalo may be a little salty of Roc being a bit more white collar or "upper class" then Buffalo. What really suprises me though, as a newer Rochester resident, is that it seems like neither city wants to acknowledge the other one even exist even though they're only about an hours drive apart. I've talked to a few Rochester residents and the two most common answers for going to Buffalo are either Bills game or Niagra Fall, neither of which are actually in Buffalo. I think WNY would be in a much better position if the two cities really made an effort to work together to enhance the region has a whole. Just my take.
Thoughts about Rochester are pretty much the same as thoughts about Syracuse, Jamestown, Binghamton, or even Albany for that matter.
Now that I think about it that is probably something that annoys someone from Rochester.
Rochester isn't like Binghamton or Jamestown, or even Syracuse, it is much larger, it has more things to do, and urban amenities.
It is sort of like saying "nice little town you got there", which I can see as condescending.
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