Oneonta , NY what is it like? Are they hillbillies??? (Buffalo: houses, college)
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If you are considering moving to Oneonta---don't. You will loose all faith in government, police, and basic human decency.
The students are the best part of Oneonta. Here is the low-down. The local city government are xenophobes and racists and they try to prevent homeowners from investing in the summer rental season. The city try's to deny summer rental permits to homeowners so the local hotel (clarion) will pick up the income. The city made a terrible deal with the Clarion to build downtown and now they are feeling the sting of their poor deal making.
Now you know how poorly things are done in Oneonta. A bad place to work and live.
graduated from suny oneonta 5 years ago...lots of new things since it looks like! They got Japanese cuisine now? Lol. I miss that crazy little town. Many a drunken nights spent @ Tino's eating cold cheese pizza and using Wilsbach dining hall trays as sleds and going down Golding Hill.
If you are considering moving to Oneonta---don't. You will loose all faith in government, police, and basic human decency.
The students are the best part of Oneonta. Here is the low-down. The local city government are xenophobes and racists and they try to prevent homeowners from investing in the summer rental season. The city try's to deny summer rental permits to homeowners so the local hotel (clarion) will pick up the income. The city made a terrible deal with the Clarion to build downtown and now they are feeling the sting of their poor deal making.
Now you know how poorly things are done in Oneonta. A bad place to work and live.
Right, because the permanent residents are worthless. Every town needs a strong base population. Ax-grinder.
A thoughtful retort, yes. If all those factors were incorporated, the local population would still be the same.
The plain truth is often the hardest to face. And that is what is lacking from the subset of thinking in Oneonta. The local residents avoid the plain truth. I posted to the blog saveoneonta.blogspot.com today and still with over 650 hits a week, remain unconvinced that Oneonta should ever be a place to live for a long term period.
With SUNY cuts coming and the possibility of closing some SUNY campus' I'm sure Oneonta will feel the crunch and wish they did a better job retaining talented graduates from the local universities.
Sorry to disagree with you, but the reality is the reality.....pull the plug on Oneonta and let it gasp one last time.
I am going to follow up on what happened to my friend. He moved, rented a nice house in Oneonta, started the job. Everything seemed ok, but then he started to drink alot more. He always drank but this seemed to progress. He got lost the job, is in a trailer off route 23, drinks non stop, hangs out with the other alcoholics and does what he calls cobb jobs this is a side job not sexual, for money. Oneonta just made him drink! I cant even talk to him anymore. He is delusional and needs detox. Not a good more, or it was a matter of time until this happened cant say if it was the place or the drunk.
well Sean he did drink , just not night and day. Oneonta pushed him over the edge! He used to live in a burb of NYC, its so busy, hustling and busteling and all the go getters and action . Oneonta is different. He could not adjust and is drunk all the time. He was functional and now is miserable. He made a bad move, sorry thats what happened. Its nothing remotely similiar to where he grew up and lived most of his life. Now maybe if he did it young in his 20's not late 40's it would have been easier.
I'm from that area and yes I did drink. But its a great area and I loved it and miss it everyday. I was from the RS/Cooperstown area.
Now I live near Syracuse which I hate more then words can say. Thanks to Liberty Resources this area per capita is drunk/crack/meth central. LR's buses addicts in from all over the state.
But yet I don't drink anymore. Wether Upstate NY is the armpit of the World or not is a fun topic to debate on the innerweb. But the decision to be a drunk or not comes from within.
Now I live near Syracuse which I hate more then words can say. Thanks to Liberty Resources this area per capita is drunk/crack/meth central. LR's buses addicts in from all over the state.
Key phrase- "near Syracuse." You live in Oneida, half an hour away from Syracuse and not considered even so much as a suburb.
I'm from that area and yes I did drink. But its a great area and I loved it and miss it everyday. I was from the RS/Cooperstown area.
Now I live near Syracuse which I hate more then words can say. Thanks to Liberty Resources this area per capita is drunk/crack/meth central. LR's buses addicts in from all over the state.
But yet I don't drink anymore. Wether Upstate NY is the armpit of the World or not is a fun topic to debate on the innerweb. But the decision to be a drunk or not comes from within.
Liberty Resources? Isn't that for people with special needs? There have been some examples of addicts being brought up here, but drugs and alcohol abuse is literally everywhere in this country.
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