Something for Nearly Everyone -- Where the Midwest
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6/6/2007
If you are a NYC person, Albany will be a tough adjustment -- quiet, downscale, and low key. New Englanders might find it more to their liking, particularly east of the Hudson. Accents and lifestyles are more akin to life in the MidWest than to the Northeast, a throwback to the age when the railheads and canals made Albany the nation's gateway to the Midwest. Not an easy city to live in without a car. In this sprawling middle sized city nothing is convenient for anyone accustomed to mass transit. Walking it is impossible unless you choose to live in one of its older and less spruced up neighborhoods. Mayor Jennings and the regional planning commission ought to get Amtrak to build a quicker linkage to Saratoga Springs, or the CDTA ought to build a light rail/monnorail network linking Amtrak to the State Capitol and downtown scene, the mega-malls in Guilderland/Colonie, the Airport, and the Clifton Park/Saratoga County corridor along I-87.
Ge | Albany, NY