It’s really freakin bad there. It’s liberal city all over the place.
Amherst is about a 10-15 minute trip, and you can just smell the unctuous neohippy commie stink as you approach.
Reminds me... my daughter took her husband up to Ithaca this past weekend. I asked him how he liked it and he said it was beautiful but that it reminded him of Berkeley, CA. And not in a good way.