I grew up near White Plains after I was born and we moved around upstate, Ithaca, Utica and Syracuse. I remember trick or treating in snowstorms many years. About 30 years after I moved to California I went to an interview at Corning in Corning, NY in April. They had a snowstorm when I was there on the interview and that clinched it! No way was I moving back to NYS. Right now it’s 60 degrees and sunny on the San Fran Peninsula.
The last time I visited the Syracuse area 20 years ago it looked so terribly run down and old.
Upstate NY is an afterthought when it comes to NYS politics as ALL the votes are in the 5 Burroughs.