Another Western NYer here...

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1) Quality of life is high (low property values, good schools, low crime)
2) Spring, Summer, and Fall are GLORIOUS here
3) Getting to Toronto for the bennies of a major city is easy
4) More golf courses per capita here than anywhere else in the U.S.
5) Live in the country, work in the city in 20 mins.
6) Weekly festivals during the late Spirng, Summer, and early Fall.


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1) Winter SUCKS...especially for me as I am a native Floridian.
2) Taxes are high...we have a state income tax and everything here that can be taxed is.
3) If you are, politically, a moderate conservative, as I am, the extreme liberalism here can grate on the nerves.

rabbit