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Originally posted by spinningfetus
The article is really interesting, especially because I live in one of those cities that is being left behind. Binghamton, NY was the home of IBM. (I say was because they are fleeing as fast as they can) As well as Singer Link. But there isn't any sort of social life...
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Hi neighbor, I've been watching Binghamtons slide from South of the border. The triple cities always seem to depend on a few large employers... Just look at housing prices, there is no demand. Your politicians screw the old business owners for the sake of new or connected business owners. If I'm not mistaken, they gave a tax break to a new liquor store on the Southside, even though Robbies (?) is right there (like the Southside needs more alcoholics). They keep bailing out hotels... annoying... Elmira had a big layoff today at Corning, the whole Southern Tier is circling the toilet bowl. You do have AA baseball and AHL hockey which is more than most towns with a sub 50k population and with everyone on unemployment attendance may go up. There is very little creativity or entrepeneurship, Watson school at Suny and BCC keep cranking out engineers and technicians for other markets. Its a damn shame, its one of the prettiest areas in the whole country but what is there for work?