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Connemara 
Typical "My dick is bigger than yours" shit in the form of hometown pride...
Oh, sorry, I thought that's the thread I had stumbled into
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Connemara Look, there is no denying that the state of New York north and west of Albany is almost always depressed (on and off). With some exceptions like Lake George and other Adirondack resort towns, none of these places can match their downstate peers. Albany has a fair number of good bars and good restaurants. Can't say I've ever been to a good restaurant in Syracuse.
I've lived in Albany and Syracuse. When I lived in Albany, I only recall dive bars, a few select decent restaurants but nothing like a whole neighborhood full of decent places to go, shop and eat. Since moving back to Syracuse three or four years ago (admittedly, a much smaller city and with its own share of economic depression and upstate-new-york-itis) I've at least found a few neighborhoods loaded with excellent shopping, food and drink establishments (Armory Square, Hanover Square, Skaneateles, and a few others). I was merely pointing out that difference.
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Connemara This isn't really a matter of opinion. The data tells you all you need to know: the Capital Region has accelerated past Western and Central NY over the past couple of decades.
State jobs and jobs that feed off of the state systems, I wonder? I can't think of a compelling reason to move to Albany for the scenery, the lifestyle, the sports teams or... well, anything else really. Of course there are few compelling reasons to move anywhere in upstate New York unless you like snow, lack of sunlight, high taxes and a tense job market. Heh.
