Reply to Would you move to the Finger Lakes, New York?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Would you move to the Finger Lakes, New York?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not do this for any reason, ever. I grew up in that area and spent the first 25 years of my life in the Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, north country area.  Yes, summers are beautiful. We like taking our children to visit family.  What you don’t realize when you are visiting for short periods of time are the long winters and worse, the nonstop grey skies and rain. Cold and dreary.

It’s a nice escape from DC in the summer but I would never move back. It is so depressing there and I didn’t have nearly the opportunities growing up that my kids do.

Move to the suburbs, we did it and have land. We got different jobs and are no longer in the DC rat race. I like the VA burbs better.  Or move away from this area to a different city. [/quote]

+1. I’m from upstate NY. Depending on what town you are in, the people are insular and not particularly warm to outsiders. It’s generations of people who haven’t left. The winter is long, grey, cold, and wet. April sucks in upstate NY. I also hate living in the country as a kid. I couldn’t just walk down the street to a friends house, we all lived miles apart on long country roads. There was a very high profile kidnapping of a girl kidnapped off of those roads when I was growing up (Sarah Ann Wood), so parents were more cautious. My kid can easily ride around the corner in my suburban neighborhood. Property taxes are high, mainly because of the municipal setup, which is inefficient and insular. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics