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Those leaving have been the makers and the ones moving in are the takers, you figure out where it will end.

That's absolutely true. It's the people who want to work and couldn't who have left. And, though I don't have any statistics to back it up, I suspect the New York diaspora is more Republican than Democrat which explains why NYS politics trend ever-leftward.

Now, there are still a lot of us struggling to make a productive living and keeping our little towns and villages alive. But it's tough. Every other person seems to be on food stamps, welfare, disability, and/or WIC these days.

And, no. I don't want to leave. I love it here. Upstate New York is beautiful and it's home. Will just have to tough it out and send reports from behind enemy lines as needed.