Posted on 03/28/2016 12:20:28 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Upstate NY is becoming more diverse as Americans flee; the area is dying, and Third Worlders are being trafficked there to keep the government worker caste on the workfare dole. The Hudson Valley towns and cities are becoming very Hispanic, and there aren’t jobs attracting them.
“Rust belt” cities...sometimes colleges or military bases stave off the inevitable for a while, but in the end they become hives of unemployed people (of all colors) on the dole.
It was still fairly nice in the 1990s, but I almost cried when I went back there a few years ago. It was an empty shell of what it once was.
I think it is more the NYS welfare that attracts them than the jobs.
NYS is dying economically. There are few opportunities for young people. Those who stay accept low paying jobs with few opportunities for advancement. Or they get government jobs.
Almost all of the major businesses have been forced out of NYS.
I got a question for all you upstate NY folks who talk differently and are mid western types. Those 250,000 high paying jobs that were to be brought to upstate NY, as promised by then candidate for Senate, Hillary in 2000, how many of you are still working at one of them?
Seneca Falls was the inspiration for “It’s a Wonderful Life.” “Upstate” is a very large place—pretty much everywhere in the state except NYC and Long Island.
NJ is experiencing the same exact thing (for the same exact reasons); it is a shame, because both are naturally beautiful states.
And no more bangers at Colemans on Tipperary Hill.
Oswego and Pulaski. Then you really know about snow and mosquitoes!
Spent my first 21 years 3 miles north of Baldwinsville.
The snow was never a problem. If it was snowing there weren’t any mosquitoes.
The mosquitoes made life miserable, the black flies too.
The last good Democrat President was from Upstate (Grover Cleveland, mayor of Buffalo).
12 of the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence had names which ended in a vowel (if you include silent E’s).
Fulton was booming at one time with Sealright, Miller, Nestles and Black Clawson. /sigh
Fulton was once a thriving small city.
The “City with a Future”. I recall when someone stapled “no” on the sign on Rt. 57 just past north of the brewery after it closed. How right they were.
If you’re a native of those parts you can recall the name of Lakeshore Road, before 1964.
I have family that still lives in Volney. She is the Town Justice.
My screen name is the road where I grew up in Pulaski.
Wow! Talk about coincidences. Hubby and I were at the Volney Volunteer Department tonight for their weekly music event.
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