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gregv64 OP t1_j8vh8wm wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Moving to mountain region of PA-Tell me how it is? by gregv64

Appreciate the insight. I did see NY banned all fracking over 10 years ago. How are places like elmira, ithica, binghamton? I see a bunch of A rated schools there so thats good.. ME is absolutely stunning, we honeymooned there along the entire coast. Unfortunately too far from family in Toronto. NY state may be the way to go for us. Adirondacks look very nice.

NY property taxes scared me away at first but then realized the 2 places on zillow i saw and called about did in fact have 15k/a year taxes-zillow estimated them at 12. Then 5 others i called about, zillow estimated 12+ when they were actually all under 5k and 20+ acres. Cant trust everything on the internet..

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[deleted] t1_j8wppgb wrote

Gotcha, that makes sense.

I'm not too familiar with Upstate NY. I'm more familiar with New England. I know Ithaca is home to Cornell University so it has a lot of young people and I've heard it's a nice college town.

I've heard Binghamton used to not be as nice but I think it's gotten better? Don't quote me on that.

Don't know anything about Elmira.

You could probably knock out all those places if you took a few days road trip to check them out.

Edit: Upstate NY is a large area so you could also try asking in one of the NY subreddits for some more guidance

Edit 2: the areas of NY you mentioned aren't actually near the Adirondacks. They aren't flat, but the Dacks are further Northeast and are significantly bigger

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