[NoahSD]

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Travel upstate sometime, you'll see what Noah's talking about, but with lake effect snow to boot!

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when you say 'upstate,' are you talking about westchester county upstate, or like, albany? i have been all over that area and there's not much of anywhere i'd be excited to live. hudson will probably be cool in about ten years. parts of columbia county near the MA border might be ok but only because nothing in MA is remotely affordable.

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I think he meant that places upstate suck.

A lot of the more expensive areas in Westchester seem like they'd be pretty cool to live in, except that they're crazy expensive.

College towns are really hit or miss in my experience. There are sort of two distinct stereotypes... the town with lots of cool non-chain shops and cafes and bars and restaurants and stuff, and the town with a mcdonalds, a [censored] college bookstore, and a few decaying frat houses.