A Mini City With Appeal To Urbanites Looking For Q
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6/6/2007
Saratoga is the type of city that should encourage higher density and longer distance mass transit. An absolutely charming under-populated city, it can be walked from end to end in an hour or less, and one can actually live there without ever needing a car. Still, despite dozens of good bars and restaurants and a strip of trendy and national chain stores throughout the downtown, the place has few high quality jobs. SUNY Empire State College and Skidmore College bookend the collegiate environment, with one being impractically elitist, and the other being unconditionally accepting. If you absolutely wanted a city lifestyle in a more remote location, Saratoga could be the place.
(Now if only they could attract more jobs, or find a way to bypass the usually 1 hr. commute to downtown Albany, where most of the region's middle class jobs are...)
Ge | Albany, NY