I have little to no sympathy, make that NO sympathy for the people of the southern tier. Year after year they endure tax hike after tax hike coupled with massive job flight out of the area. They never do anything to reverse course and continually clamor for more and more government. I left Endicott (next to Binghamton) in 1991 for college, and upon graduating college in 1996 i moved directly to Raleigh NC. I got the hell out and I advise everyone else still left up there to do the same.
After years of telling my brother he was wasting time and his life living in Binghamton he has finally wised up and is moving to NC in a month.
Yeah, I know. It's hard to soar like an eagle when you live with turkeys.....