Upstate needs to break away from the city.
My Dad and his buddies used to say that in the early 60s when we lived in Ithaca. Mine did too , and we lived on LI. But, back then Nassau & Suffolk counties were fairly conservative working class suburbs.
Mine also. I grew up a farm boy in central New York moved to CT because there was no skilled work. Now CT is almost as bad. Go south young man is what I'd tell my son.