[Hojczyk]

unexplored health risks and dubious economic benefits.

Tell that to the people of Texas and North Dakota
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I left the State in 1980…Upstate New York is turning into Detroit

[Fungi]

Bingo! Rats are delusional, truly a mental condition.

[henkster]

My son and I drove through upstate New York on the way to Cooperstown a few years ago. We stopped at Utica, Syracuse and Buffalo. Dead cities with tombs of dead industries occupied by a few people with dead lives.

[__rvx86]

There are two gas wells in my town—what health risks? The water’s fine, and I recall a politician in a different state actually DRINK the fluid the oilmen use to break the rocks. It probably didn’t taste good, but he wasn’t poisoned. ‘Nuff said.

[cherry]

upstate is still pretty spectacular....but there are not very big employers so you've never going to get that huge rise in income from a large section....

I have family there and I feel bad for them, plus the casinos were picked today and none of them are in the actual Southern Tier...