He helped us legalize herb in the florida area 2013, good lawyer... i have him clipped 10 years ago here in local news pushing nonprofit groups to help us

You missed the opportunity to visit Canajoharie

#RutlandVermont over here. Whitehall 🆕 York is the gateway to the Adirondack Park region!!! Prison industry is a big economic driver up there! Dannamora? BIG FARMS TOO!

If you're still on upstate ny I can show you a lot

That being the dirt and gritty side of the Capitol region. If you really want to see how bad and how much of a failure new york is. Also abandoned buildings that I can get you into. Possibly tunnels under the Capitol

Thanks for your thoughtful comment, even if we might be from opposing camps.

@@speaksthis opposing camps? you're for the destruction of middle America?

A tale of two cities It was the best of times It was the ............

Build back bankruptcy

Keep sending money to non citizens

I was surprised by the "downtown Binghamton" coverage as well. That must be a fringe area of the downtown because I have been to downtown Binghamton numerous times, and it sure didn't look like that. Glad to hear about the positive things going on with the IBM complex. He sure didn't find the Vestal Parkway either.

The guy is obviously not a very experienced traveler with an agenda to show “Hope bad things have gotten”. He grew up in Ohio. It’s a shame really… all this time making a video with such a negative slant.

Goverment contrac jobs wars bring jobs

Right? There is a Casino in the area with nice local hotels! This guy is a Dipshit!

@@shelbywilks6995 Terrific response with erudite comments. Thumbs Up & TY

Adirondack Park

We understand Patricia. Much of my family still lives in upstate NY. We former New Yorkers are just saddened and angry at how our great state has been abused. Update NY should be separate from NYC and LI. they are two different cultures. Upstae NY is ignored by the politicians who are controlled by NYC

As a Long Islander I agree, all Albany cares about is the city.

NYC, Long Island, and Upstate should all be separate states.

It’s why I moved long before I was ready to buy a house. Why buy a house to give all those taxes to NY State government? It’s an investment with no return. Pay more for a house in the south and sell it for more with less tax burden! Win! Win!

I borderline starved growing up, it's the case for so many other people here. Nothing is affordable, there's Latin American countries that are safer, my county has a higher murder rate than Mexico. People are miserable here, weather is terrible. What's good? We always can just leave, we have government assistance if starvation gets too bad, but even that system has it's flaws. Idk, the struggle is real and it drives you to push for better things in life. My home has hardened me to the core, if I ever leave, I'll always have that going for me, we might be a depressed, miserable bunch, but we upstate folk aren't to be f'ed with, we're hard as a rock. Look at Jon Bones Jones, domestic abuse aside, he's one of the toughest mfs in this modern age. Funnily enough, Mike Tyson was trained in Upstate.

they should have never started buying foreign cars, it started there and then went everything, for greed over America staying strong, nafta fucked us too.

That was when nixon opened up trade to china :( Now if you talk about support/liveable wages.. its "woke" to them... thats how silly american politics are.. they are AGAINST wages that help them, and they worship the corporations and politicians that sold them out, just so they can enter heaven with their golden boats..

Good for one person in that scenario

A lot of us miss those days, but they are gone forever. Sad, so sad.

@@ptapolandexplain

More like we’ll over $100,000 and a lot fee over $600 a month

@@lorirogers9304 Most people put the trailer/mobile home on there own land. Then you only pay taxes and if you don't add improvements which is something permanent than the taxes will stay below 500 a year in most towns but definitely less than a 1000 a year if you don't put in a permanent foundations. And no a brand new modular home should never be more than 50 thousand but I see tons of gorgeous used in excellent shape modular homes for between 10 to 20 thousand. I don't know where you get a hunsered thousand from. There are also plenty of nice regular trailers/single wide for around five thousand and campers between 2 and 3 thousand with air conditioner/water all the same comforts you would get in a house. For an elderly couple on a fixed income trying to get away from expensive rents buying a few acres and putting a camper on it would be perfect. For a family starting at a few acres for 20 to 30 thousand which they can finance instead of buying straight out and pay 400 or 500 a month for 5 or 6 years until they pay it off and in the meantime or a lower income family with children could put a nice mobile home on it or a camper to get started and the following year when they get there tax return buy a used mobile home for 7 or 8 thousand which is the usual tax return for someone with 2 kids althrough I think it went up becauee the new tax credit that started in 2022 refunds family an additional 36000 per child a year which is paid by direct deposit 300 per month per child on top of the usual tax return. Their are trailer parks where the average lot rent I between 325 and 500 but I was talking about mobike homes sitting on a few acres of land not trailer parks. Yes some towns don't allow mobile homes but there are plenty of towns that do with plenty of acerage to buy in NY if people just look. However a lot of people associate a mobile home with a negative stigma and would rather pay 2 or 3 thousand a month in a mortgage alone and not be associated with the mobile home/rural area stigma than pay a thousand a month for 5 years for land and a trailer and 500 dollars a month for alll bills including property taxes after that. I don't know own why you think new 3 bedroom mobile homes cost a hundred thousand dollars because that is just not true.

@@matthewmcmahon6727 "(If you look into modular homes you will see you can get 3 bedrooms for about 50 thousand dollars that look just as nice on the inside as any average home in the suburbs with large open kitchens, washers and dryers, ect.)" Where exactly are these 50K brand new 3 br/2 ba homes growing on trees located?

A crime........okay Putin

Not in this video.

You must be smoking that NYS bud bro :) Best decision I ever made was leaving the Buffalo/Rochester area 20 years ago. Have not been back since. Literarily not much left there but drugs addicts and degenerates and vacant industrial buildings.

Exactly. If you look for run-down places, you're going to find it. There are a lot of nice cities and towns, and the scenery is gorgeous. I would not trade it for NYC or any other city. (Well, maybe Seattle.)

​@@SpicyEngineerYou left 20 years ago, haven't been back since, and you think you're confident about what's going on there? Whether you're correct or not, declaring expertise about someplace you haven't been in 20 years is strange. I was born in CT and haven't lived there in 20 years, and I wouldn't state I knew what was happening there still. And I HAVE visited it since. But I have been to Buffalo quite a bit and I think you are a little behind the times on what's happening there.

Every part of NY outside of the city is beautiful. Wish we could disown them.

the corpocracy.. is real

You forgot communist democrats and their Rino tools

Oh lord why won't somebody think of the poor rich people and their needs......it's not cheap being filthy rich

The problem is not corporations, it's globalized corporations which have no allegiance to any nation. Corporations were once considered to be citizens of the towns and cities in which they conducted their businesses, and their management took pride in contributing to the growth of the communities they called home.

Corporate greed my ass comrade its corrupt government

I have no idea what it was like then but it should have been experiencing the post-war boom at that time. When I visited Newburgh 20 years ago I was shocked at how ghetto it was thanks to NYC sending welfare cases north. I haven't heard Gerald Celente for a long time, but last I heard he was trying to revitalize Kingston NY.

Yup! Privatized Prisons!!!

@christopherbailey557 where at ? I stayed some years in Plattsburgh ny

That's what voting for Democrats gets ya 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Malone area? I lived in Brushton and felt like I was in a different country.

Yes, upstate NY is a forgotten wasteland where there are now actual zombies 🧟‍♂️ wandering the streets, waiting for their next thing to steal, rob, take drugs, etc. It's gotten very dangerous and you have to search for places to go that are above the fray, where you don't see the zombies, the poverty, the crime, and the hopelessness. When I say zombies, I mean it. I'm not at all exaggerating.

The rust belt was caused by rampant and reckless

globalization

And the number one way folks get money is begging the state.

Upsate NY is dead because of decades of policy to enrich shareholders.

@@Rossdesigns that’s because NY state made it highly unprofitable to base businesses there. Production is booming across the south and states that are more business friendly. Small businesses and entrepreneurs are not basing out of NY and then spending their incomes in these areas due to unnecessarily high taxes

Syracuse is central NY.

Central New York is in Upstate New York.

Me too....unbeknownst to me I was looking to have a cabin built a town over and after seeing how run down everything was, it changed our way of life.

You grew up in Amsterdamn? Bless your heart you made it out. That place old, deserted, and almost lifeless. Keep going

​@@demondarkfantasy JFC, it isn't *that* bad... you're 20min away from the Great Sacandaga and the start of Adirondack Park. Some of the most beautiful land in the continental U.S. You'd be stupid to not want a cabin up here

I believe it is pronounced Amsterico 😳

@@robinson1509 You're not right... but you're also not wrong 😁

Same. I was born & raised in Johnstown, only 15min NW of Amsterdam. I was mostly asleep when this episode started the other night, and when I heard him say upstate NY & Amsterdam I had to wake and jump up to see if it was real lol I'm just now finally sitting down and watching the whole video. He's definitely spot on with most of what he sais. He just fails to talk about things like the Adirondack Park and how incredibly beautiful the area is. He's definitely going for the worst of the worst, and he succeeded

I think the Chinese mafia probably has him a bit worried after his scam videos, it’s smart to lay low for a bit

​@@fivespeed42and it's only an hour to Albany. Not like its in the middle of noplace

​@@Samlol23_drrichThey think Albany is noplace.

​@@ginadellgrottaglia6897well maybe compared to Dallas or NYC but it's big enough for me. Lived there for 4 years and loved everything about it. Just the right size.

cause union workers are cry baby scumbags

and they get insulted when called out...😂

Yeah the snarky responses he gave were disappointing.

The law says it's fine. Remember that? The law?

@kennethmchilders The law says walking onto someone else's property without permission to film commercial content is legal? In which state of America is that ok? 🤔🤔 Homeowners could sue those trespassers, or prosecute them, with the law...remember that, the law? 🤦🏻‍♂️

@@philpalmer4877 Ignore him. He seems to think that just because something may be "legal", it's Ok to do, regardless of someone's personal dislike of being on camera or having their property or loved ones on camera as well. He's that same degenerate who probably regurgitates that same slogan "If you don't like to be on camera, don't come outside". another quasi-freedom fighter. Next he'll tell you a car is a "vessel" and he doesn't drive, he "travels".

I grew up in Tioga county, if you didnt have a big family name you wouldnt work. The village of Nichols NY, is were I lived next to a funeral home.

Best decision I ever made was leaving the Buffalo/Rochester area 20 years ago. Have not been back since. Literarily not much left there but drugs addicts and degenerates and vacant industrial buildings.

Plattsburgh here

@@Jager-gq1bvI worked at a company in little meadows for years.

@@zackbogart2604 I use to know people in little meadows, a guy named Roger cool guy.

He is from Long Island. It’s like he has never seen a cow on a farm. He doesn’t understand country life. Around here in the Deep South everyone drives a pickup truck except for the transplants from the Midwest and little old lady transplant types from northern Bama cities. Even at the coast in Florida you will see trucks and Jeeps.

I live on the lake close to Sodus Bay. Beautiful in this area but a lot of places not too far away are in shambles

@@19rudy73 Sodus Bay is beautiful. Nearby Chimney Bluffs is one of my favorite state parks. But just 10 mins down the road, it feels like you’re back in the early 20th century.

Rochester isn’t nearly as bad as the areas Tommy showed in this video. Binghamton is a sh!thole. Rochester actually had a ton of beautiful neighborhoods and awesome natural scenery.

I live off of Clinton ave,, absolutely crazy n run down out here 🤦🏻

@@redcomic619 definitely. Park Ave, South Wedge, Swillburg, East Ave are all beautiful. A lot of great parks too. Other neighborhoods are more run down with empty storefronts. The city is starting to do the right things to help revitalize these areas

He probably went to Pizza Hut 😂😂

Wait, what? How'd I miss that? Must of been reading comments 😂 Anyways, that's hilarious. I live close to Amsterdam, that he visits here in the video, and there is no issues with getting bomb pizza in the area

All he had to do is go up the hill from where the IBM buildings are, and turn left and drive into the North Side of Endicott, and go to any of the Italian restaurants...Consul's is the one I go to now when I am in the area...Oak's Inn is also very good...I grew up in Endwell, my parents worked at IBM Endicott, and my dad retired from there when I was a teenager...he grew up in Mt. Upton, a little town an hour away, straddling Chenango and Otsego counties...now, that town has seen better times...I return to the area for HS and college reunions at SUNY Cortland...the one thing I miss is the wonderful Italian food...just not the same where I live now...

@@elohnroc He didn't try looking around upstate NY, period. This video was slander.

Yeah it's pretty clear he didn't put much effort in here. For example in Rome it looks like he got off the exit and spend his entire time on that first strip, which might be the most oppressed part of Rome. However is he neared his beloved New York City, you should spend a little time in his own neighborhood if he really wants to see some real shit holes

Cor blimey guvner. About time 👌🏼

Lets gooo!!!

Check out Liverpool🍻

Believe it or not Detroit is looking better then upstate NY…I live across the river in Windsor atm and I see progress

I will be glad to return to the original format. I like seeing new places and people. I also enjoy learning about them and their cuture.

Start your own company. Who cares what a freaking CEO earns!

This should be further up in the comments section.

@@Stringwar Here's the point you miss. Guaranteed this comment is from experience. The Boeing CEO earns that money because of government contracts. These government contracts are given out with the implied disguising of financial assets so they can be used without detection of the illegal activity that produced them. Through money laundering, the criminal transforms the monetary proceeds derived from criminal activity into funds with an apparently legal source.

Republican policies have destroyed the middle class. 🤦‍♂️

CEO: Chief Egineering Outsourcer?

definitely a sex traffic hot spot...

I think its "The Rome Motel'

@@wrath231 Yes, in Rome NY. And when in Rome, you definitely want to do what the Romans do and pass on staying at this fleabag, according to the reviews online lol.

I stayed in a far worse one in Trinidad, Colorado back in 2018. It was snowing outside, the bathroom window was stuck open, and it was heated with a space heater. Plus it had hair and food in the bed. I guess it was one of those stoner hotels where they figured the clientele would be too busy getting blazed to care, but I just wanted to sleep. $60/night. A truly third world experience, right here in the USA.

People from India capitalizing on America’s poor

Oh wow I grew up in vestal! Dated someone from JC haha went to all the sporting events

I spent a lot of time there when I was young, and it had a lot of fond memories for me

Tommys more of a LOVE rustler

Hahahaha...that shifty Irishman. You gotta watch those fellas...always sloshed on the Poitín.😆

And I know the sound of a mega-Karen when I hear one. I'm glad he instantly acknowledged that was unlikely to happen in much of rural America.

@@Salmagundiii 🤔 I understand that it's become trendy to ridicule any White woman voicing concerns or opinions, but I'd hardly call that woman a "Karen", let alone "mega-Karen". I find it perfectly reasonable for her to question why some strange man was "casing" her property, valuable livestock, and taking pics. We all understand that Tommy meant no harm or offense, but she had no immediate idea of what he was up to. We also don't know what possible past incidents may have heightened her guard. Nah, I'm calling foul on the "Karen" label. Some women are well deserving of it...not this one. Just another note: Some farms commonly use chemicals/fertilizers that are targeted by thieves, as they are precursors in meth production. Not sure about this farm, but that really is a thing that many don't realize.

@@mtnvortex A lot of whatifs and buts from you, but you are just a bunch of pathetic paranoid jerks in the end. she could find malice in the pure fact that he was around doing absolutely nothing, paranoid suspicion towards everything that moves.

Fellow Rochesterian here! Raised in Honeoye Falls, now in W. Irondequoit. Miss the quiet countryside of my youth

yeah im from the canadian side of the 1000 islands and even though ive never been everyone kinda knows rochester is a pretty rough town

Hey! I've seen you on Nick's scuffed stream! I'm from rural Genesee county. You speak the truth about Rochester. At least there's nice spots on the lake. I like to take my dogs to Hamlin.

@@barnabyjones2203 from Hilton

DRUUUUUGS and everything else come from POVERTY. Change the systemic GREED and drugs won't be a problem. Citation? Heroin rat experiment

And does in new york city for immigrants?

@charrua59 I think Tommy covered the NYC immigrant situation in a previous video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irKlh7CVnK-RqGg.htmlsi=8EvSRMwlBowhetC0

It's because most don't have any shelters.

Don't forget the illegal aliens!

Temporary perminate

IBM literally destroyed much of the Hudson River Valley. Dutchess, Orange, Ulster counties were dependent on IBM as at their height, there were 24,000 + employees. The entire region revolved around IBM to support other businesses. In 1993, IBM layoffs began leaving the area reeling & no potential employment for the thousands who lost their jobs. This was done to move operations overseas- India, where they didn't have to pay nearly as much for workers or provide benefits. This was truly corporate greed.

You really should know that there's no 'p' in Binghamton; the Hamptons are over 150 miles away on Long Island.

@@ralphbalfoort2909 fixed

My family also has roots in upstate NY going back to before the Revolution. I still have a strong sentimental attachment to NY State but could never live there again.

We just left northern Vermont because it is a depressing shit hole of a state. ❤

That's what happens when you have people that don't want to work or create anything... Welfare is the cause

He didn't really hit the "Upstate" I was thinking when he said poverty stricken. I definitely imagined Jefferson, Lewis, Clinton, Oswego and Onondaga County to get more than 1 mention.

I'm trying to leave its shit

"That you don't forget"...🤔"other Veterans know"🤔...😱

How long ago? My Dad was named James and served 1960-63 if I recall correctly. I grew up near Corning and Watkins Glen.

😂 IKR It's one of the most American things you can do, right now. Especially if you plan on making any $ trying to show the past, present, & hopefully future, of this vast country. I live in NC & many rural areas do have trailer homes. Though most of them are not run down. It is a bit frustrating for the capitalist class to want to keep you in deep debt to, then, come work for them. Pay doesn't equal the cost of school. Then some jobs won't hire you without a degree. 🧐😵‍💫 Dystopian landscapes for miles, beautiful farm lands the next. Wild. 💜 I still love this country. However, traveling outside of it is the best way to get a different perspective. 😊 Keep up the great videos Tommy. Following you whichever way the wind blows.

Ouch my foot! 📞

But they're "for the people".........lol.........they advertise here where I live ALL the time.

I fail to see the connection

​@@DavidPlaysGuitarSometimes Ahhhh just someone who wants to complain....You didn't miss anything

No other place in ny is actually important other then the city my boy im sorry

True I moved to Vegas from Roc 10 years ago and I always have to tell people I'm from around Buffalo/Toronto or else they have no idea where I'm from.

@@lexoticsjyl3229 what does this even mean?

You are from western New York

@@xinfuxia3809 yeah this is what I usually say but I'm always wondering if they take it as the Westside of NYC haha

They call it 'Bidenomics' i mean.. right.. that was the term for years now

@@dertythegrower That's 'cause kids these days all navel gazers. Nothing existed before Biden. I mean... SHEESH! Upstate has been falling into disrepair since the 1980s & 1990s when we moved most manufacturing to China. There's no product in the service industry... so, what wealth have we been building?

@@dertythegrower come on, I'm no fan of biden (especially after the last debate) but I lived in utica during the obama & trump eras... it's been going in this direction for years. you can't blame it on any one person, as much as they may not have done anything to help. ultimately it goes back to the industry leaving decades ago.

@@dertythegrower duh, it's like that because of republicans and democrats, nothing to do with a single person but with all of them...

He didn't return home. He grew up on Staten Island.

Valid point

I'm from Syracuse and Niagara. I now live in San Diego. Im sick of people not knowing there is a state called New York ! I now just tell people I'm from Niagara Falls, Not New York.

315!

Exactly. This guy is an experienced traveling noob.

for the love of god this is NOT upstate NY lmao

Property taxes are over 30% statewide

Holy schmoly That's bonkers

@@MA_808 Wrong

Best decision I ever made was leaving Western NY 20 years ago. Have not been back since. Nothing but poor people and degenerates left in Upstate NY.

and thats just the tip of the iceberg.. the whole state makes no sense.

Blame hochul why? Upstate has been dead before hochul been in power

Especially now with bail reform and the illegal alien issues they are trying to make NYC issues state wide Shipping the nonsense up to the upstate to deal with

@lordmunchkin:Your ignorance is beyond belief.

Kathy Hochul was born in Buffalo and served in public office in Hamburg NY and Erie County. Though in Western New York State, Buffalo and Hamburg are closer in mindset to Ohio than NYC.

Binghamton had over 80,000 residents in 1950, by 1980 it was down to 55,000 , today its at 47,000. Im pointing this out because republican or democrat , governor, mayor , city council it doesn't matter, the area has been in decline longer than I've been alive

Tragic Nostalgia. Many former upstate New Yorkers are part of a massive diaspora. I moved to Europe, Asia, and the Middle -East.

Hello old neighbor. I went to Arkport and now reside in Canisteo. Bought a duplex in Hornell right by the high school for pennies.

@oakoliver7183 how wonderful. I loved it there. My Godmother, Rosemary Dineen lived in Canisteo.

Yup, cheap Southern non union labor.

I’m sure they’re not hand made.

Let's make NYC pay their own way instead of us in upstate NY pay for NYC let's vote a split for NYC as their own and the rest of us in NY be our own reap the benefits of the high prices and taxes we paid. Just so New York City can take them for themselves

FJB

Thank the Democrats!

From Clinton, NY upstate new york suffers from the state's high taxes and regulations that are muchbrougher on upstate new work's economy tjsn downstate

@@brandiwatts2718NY uses us as a dumping ground for criminals, sex offenders and welfare recipients.

Американцы живут слишком богато поэтому вас ненавидит весь мир

Because that is the desire outcome, it’s not an accident. Upstate NY is a dumping ground for criminals, sex offenders and welfare recipients. It is an open holding pen for NYC.

All because Trump told Zelensky "I'm withholding $475 million in Congressionally designated aid until you announce an investigation into the Biden's." None of that $300 billion would have been necessary if Trump hadn't subverted our policy into an extortion device against Ukraine.

....or redistributes 300 billion to rich people

This is not because of Israel or Ukraine and it's not because of Biden or Trump. Every President whether Red or Blue has forgotten Upstate N.Y. Companies leaving to go out of the country to hire worker's at slave wages and get big profits for themselves. My brother has lived in Altmar N.Y, which is just north of Syracuse for the past 53 years. Even when he was in his early twenties he couldn't find anything but minimum wage jobs. So, he went into the Army, came back and again no good jobs. He came back to L.I. and worked for Grumman for a year till they laid him off. Back to Altmar and joined the Navy, then came back and worked at small family run business and joined the Air Force reserves to supplement his income. Raised his sons who also joined the military. He's now 76 and got a college degree paid by the military. A great accomplishment, but a bit late because he can't find a job utilizing his degree because who's going to hire a man his age. So, he works in a smoke shop to get extra money. These cities have been decaying for DECADES and it's getting worse in many areas. My daughter went to Binghamton and the only thing that helps that city is the University, Walmart, Target, TJ Maxx, Bed bath and Beyond and the fast food places that services the students. The downtown is a dump. BTW, this is happening all over the country and sweet West Virginia is battling a Meth and Fentanyl epidemic and some parts look worse that W. Virginia. I spent many a happy summer in the Adirondack's, Finger Lakes and Lake Placid. Show some of those places next time too.

They probably F up the sheets so they are tired of getting new ones. Crackheads don't care. That's where they do their business. They show have one crisp clean room for the rela guests.

The motels are being used for EHV (emergency and at-risk) and HCV (section eight) overflow. It's suppose to be temporary or transitional housing, but the waiting lists for both programs are about three years long. There's controversy with migrants getting priority placement before the people waiting, issues involving resource allocation, surrounding property values, and crime. Long story (kinda) short, no housekeeping is coming in and changing sheets like a regular motel and I doubt it would be wanted. Its closer to a landlord (or slumlord) tenant relationship. People are fully moved in with all their possessions, different furniture (and sheets lol), pets, room dividers etc. It does get a bit complicated with HUD. "Motel" owners have to keep a room(s) open to the public to qualify and to avoid different (or complicated) regulations. Local to me they vary from small communities similar to a normal apartment complex to essentially shooting galleries or brothels. I'm 90 minutes north of the city, possibly it's a little different further upstate.

FJB

Sadly everything is made in China

The banks won't give American run industries operating loans.

FUGGEDABOUDIT Dave ! Most products are manufactured OVERSEAS ! To "Buy American" is patriotic, but that means hunting down small, family owned businesses, traveling or paying higher prices for THOSE items...Yes..us Americans remember the "Leave it to Beaver" TV lifestyles, dude ! But Agent Orange has BRAVADO and SWAGGER, but cannot FORCE profitable corporations to "return to America" to re-open factories and farms to satisfy our "days of tradition and carefree" days !!😅

How when they’re all made in China?

Yeah, the government is more interested in funding drag queen story hours for first graders. And before we blame businesses for leaving the courntry, try operating one where you have to function under bureaucratic created egulartions that are as thick as an encyclopedia.

I stopped for a slice of pizza in Binghampton in '16 on my way down from Canada and it was like a bombed out sh*thole 3rd world nuclear blasted waste zone. Pizza was 🔥🔥 though

Went to school there, it's an interesting place for sure. Half the place is abandoned and some of it is decent, however, thats where the students mostly are. The downtown area is starting to open up new places so maybe it'll get a bit nicer in the years to come. Very cool up there though the old architecture on some of the buildings and the history behind them are nice.

@@robertfischer5893Like a wizard of OZ city popping up out of nowhere when you’re passing through?

c’mon over to my turf BINGHAMTON…

Worked with a Kathleen from Binghamton, she loved her town so much she moved back and became the town Librarian😊

I am Latino and I lived in Rochester now I live in Newark there in Rochester there is a lot of racism apart from that the Latinos who are there are bad that's why I left because I really don't understand the reason for many things with the people of New York

Luis, Rochester has a history of real estate segregation of blacks and I’m sure other minorities too, before that became illegal. Kodak employed almost no blacks until the ‘70s. I don’t doubt your difficulties.

Welfare and crime. Who's going to pay the taxes to support all the people on welfare? There won't be a middle class anymore. Who will have the cash to buy what computers and machines make? Most folks won't have any money and robots don't buy stuff. Are they not thinking this through or do they know what's coming and don't care?

I can answer that for you: It involves depopulation and UBI, aka Socialism/Communism. That is what is coming.

The plan is to give everyone money and encourage their passions and interests.

@@naomikriss5208 Thats a lovely (naive) thought.

You’re a dope.

That's the problem with any small town, cliques, and municipal extortion and pay to play trying to open a business. Corruption has destroyed the fabric of the American dream.

@@lordk8911 Maybe go the speed limit? He got off easy I think, speeding ticket alone might have cost $250.

You need to get out more…

Typical, another city person coming upstate to go fast on our roads and disregard our safety. Glad you got a ticket

@RichManSCTV0 like you guys do not speed ? Just spent 4 days in saugerties and locals barreling past me doing 90 on thruway when I am doing 65 and they come right up on your ass ,in the right hand lane too. On 23 and 28 speeding there too.

I used to live in Rome too. What years were you there??

Add another former Roman to list! I graduated RFA in the prehistoric days if 1980 😅. Coincidentally, I just visited. Hotels and Airbnb in very short supply. Ended up staying at the Casino property.

SoCal is the anus of the United States

Central NY is part of Upstate.

​@@tomfields3682not for those that live here. Albany and anything north of the Mohawk Valley is what most of us consider "upstate" Anything south & and west of that is central. Then ya head out towards Buffalo, up to Watertown, that's Western NY

Albany NY and places north are definitely "upstate" The Mohawk valley is what most of us consider the line that distincts upstate from central, imo You can drive just 15-20min north from Amsterdam here in the video and you'll be in the foothills & the start of the beautiful Adirondack Park. Kinda sad he left all that out of this video

When you don’t live in the area please don’t comment. This is considered the Adirondacks better known as the gateway

Yes!!

Same as south-western Ontario. Grey skies, slush, and dreary

It's a winter wonderland in the beautiful Adirondack Park. One of the best areas in the United States for any and all winter sports. You're obviously one of those that just sit inside their houses and complain about the temperatures

@@fivespeed42 This video was filmed in Binghamton, that is not the Adirondacks at all you m oron.

Many people enjoy the snow & winter season. Skiing, snow mobiles, skating, etc can actually make winter enjoyable & fun! It's all about choices.

Most depressing in the summer: Beautiful weather but nothing to do, just drink. No trails to hike, no sidewalks in the hamlet of Woodbourne, 100 miles from NYC. Btw, worst subway in the world 😵‍💫

talk about an oversimplification - the state tax rate is everything we need to know?

​@@Marcel_Audubon Yes, it tells you Albany's philosophy with respect to your money. Their particular philosophy is that your money is theirs.

​@@richhenry8004 you do realize NYC pays almost all of the taxes the state receives and gets less than what it puts in, correct? The other cities are basically on welfare from NYC, which pays 45% of the taxes and receives 40% spending.

NYC subsidizes the whole state.

@@loosilu As they should, its a progressive tax system. Not to mention they use upstate as a source for food, water, power, prisons, and as their garbage dump.