“The roads are beyond awful.”
When we visit home in western NY, in spite of state taxes the roads are dreadful. Of course, the roads in that area are in conservative parts of the state, so they’re getting ZERO help. (Except where the freeway goes through the Indian reservation; they’re never not being repaired.)
We drove through an area where even small houses were over $1,000,000. The roads were patch on top of patch. You couldn’t do more than 15 mph. Deplorable. But probably a conservative area.