New York is one of the five states I’ve never been to. I hear upstate is nice, but I have no desire to see NYC and upstate is similar enough to other states that it is easily avoided.
I grew up in NYC and there is not enough money on this planet to ever get me to live there again, EVER. It’s truly the leftist a-hole capital of the world, it really is. The people there get me sick to my guts. Go there as a tourist if you must, but by all means avoid living there as much as possible. The last year before I moved, my blood pressure was through the roof. Just to give you an idea what that sewerhole is like, around 15 years ago I was eating in a Japanese restaurant with my parents and we were talking about the Clintons and this leftist at the next table didn’t like what we said and proceeded to pour a drink over my head and knock stuff off our table while going on a rant about GW killing retarded black men. My mother almost had to go to the hospital from nerves, I thought she was having a heart attack. I wanted to kill that guy, but that’s pretty much the kind of leftists you will run into regularly there. They have a blatant communist as Mayor who they reelected, enough said.
Went up there a few years back and toured the Ommegang brewery followed by a visit to Cooperstown. Cooperstown felt like a step back in time. Just loved it. Very nice scenery.
NYC has the best and the worst of everything. People who throw out the baby with the bathwater are shortsighted IMHO.
ML/NJ