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Old 07-09-2009, 10:55 PM
 
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Jamestown has a lot going for it so why is the economy so bad there? It has a relatively good sized population, a beautiful lake, an interstate, proximity to larger cities in the North East and is surrounded by an extremely beautiful countryside. But then you look at the economy you find that their are hardly any jobs or businesses.

Why do you think this is?
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Old 07-10-2009, 07:13 PM
 
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It's in Upstate NY
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Old 07-10-2009, 07:22 PM
 
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It's in Upstate NY....which is dominated by downstate policies that that raise the taxes to mind boggling levels which forces the jobs to go.
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Old 07-15-2009, 07:46 AM
 
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Its not upstate. It is part of the southern tier of western NY.
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Old 07-15-2009, 11:22 AM
 
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Its not upstate. It is part of the southern tier of western NY.
It's considered Upstate NY. Anything above roughly the Hudson Valley is. Some in NYC would say anything above the Bronx.
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Old 07-15-2009, 03:40 PM
 
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Its not upstate. It is part of the southern tier of western NY.
Yes it is.

Jamestown is in the Southern Tier region of Upstate NY.
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Old 07-15-2009, 04:43 PM
 
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take it up with Albany, we have an incredibly varied state that suffers because of the crybaby backwards antics of all those politicians WASTING space in empire state plaza.
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Old 07-16-2009, 01:26 AM
 
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Not a lot more, just better and not half empty. Same goes with Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Binghamton, etc.
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Old 07-16-2009, 11:52 AM
 
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Yes it is.

Jamestown is in the Southern Tier region of Upstate NY.
How about western NY, instead of upstate NY, There is not one person who is from here has said were from Upstate!
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Old 10-21-2009, 05:56 PM
 
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How about western NY, instead of upstate NY, There is not one person who is from here has said were from Upstate!
I used to live in Jamestown, and everyone I know called it Upstate New York...
Sure do miss Jamestown, from time to time!
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