Some people are overly dramatic.
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6/28/2007
Having lived all over the U.S. (originally from Los Angeles, then three years around Clarksville TN, two years in Vegas, several months near Virgina Beach and short stints in Arizona and Utah) I can tell you that Syracuse is a nice place to live. All cities have the high crime areas, Syracuse's is the south side. Most of the city is fairly nice. Like ,most cities the majority of the metropolitan area's population live in the suburbs and they are beautiful. Clean, good air and water quality, and crime is nonexistant.
As for the weather we average about 160 sunny days. We do get rain here but not as much as Seattle. We also average something like 120 inches of snow in the winter but getting around isn't really a problem. I commute about 40 miles round trip and haven't had a problem yet but there are about ten or twelve nasty days of driving during the Winter. However the seasons are beautiful here. I always get a couple of face cords of wood at the end of the summer and look forward to having a fire going in the fireplace when the weather turns cold. We also had a short Winter this year and so far a bit less rain then normal.
Jobs are on par or a little better then the national average. However the area is moving away from manufacturing jobs and toward professional or white-collar jobs. Some of the best employers are the local universities and the hospitals. There are also a good deal of IT, financial and research jobs in the area as well as Lockheed Martin.
Syracuse is a great place to live. It has won lots of those silly little awards magazines give to to cities including making Parenting Magazine's list of top ten cities to raise a kid, and having one of it's suburbs (Manlius) listed as one of the best places to live in the U.S. by Money Magazine.
Russ | Baldwinsville, NY