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As someone that grew up in Baltimore, lived in Austin, occasionally worked in Houston & now lives in Hamburg I get a chuckle seeing so many of you describing Buffalo's traffic like its actually bad. On most days (unless there is a bad snowstorm then all bets are off) I can get from Kenmore to my home in Hamburg (approx 20 miles) within 30 minutes.
Buffalo IMO is a sty. I'm sure there's good things about it but I've been through there and would never consider living there. It reminded me of flint, mi in a way. Rochester has it's problems, but I loved it there. I would have never left. And if you have kids, it has so much! Rochester, hands down. No contest.
As someone that grew up in Baltimore, lived in Austin, occasionally worked in Houston & now lives in Hamburg I get a chuckle seeing so many of you describing Buffalo's traffic like its actually bad. On most days (unless there is a bad snowstorm then all bets are off) I can get from Kenmore to my home in Hamburg (approx 20 miles) within 30 minutes.
Buffalo doesn't have bad traffic. But I did find it to be much worse than Rochester.
No disrespect intended but I suspect there were a lot of cities in queue before you could consider Rochester as among the top "dead" cities. Youngstown (which peculiarly missed the top ten), is one such candidate. Dayton and Toledo, Ohio are two more. Probably Syracuse. Others?
No disrespect intended but I suspect there were a lot of cities in queue before you could consider Rochester as among the top "dead" cities. Youngstown (which peculiarly missed the top ten), is one such candidate. Dayton and Toledo, Ohio are two more. Probably Syracuse. Others?
I agree. Midwestern towns like those montioned are in pretty bad shape.
Probably closer than we like to think - being the best economy upstate is sort of like being the prettiest waitress at Dennys.
Ironically, the unemployment rates are lower than most in the country. I believe Ithaca has the lowest rate at 6.1%, then Albany at 6.6%. Next are surprisingly, the Glens Falls and Utica-Rome areas and in that order.
Yay, we have a nice public market!! Man, what would we ever do without that!
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