There re two New Yorks:
1) New York City metro area which is booming as a financial and media hub.
2) Upstate which has been loosing population for 50 years. It used to be home many manufacturers: Xerox, Eastman Kodak and large manufacturing facilities for carrier, GM & GE, etc. Those jobs are long gone.
Cuomo’s blocking fracking is just the latest of many bad decisions over the last 50 years.
“New York City metro area which is booming as a financial and media hub”
Add to that the nation’s busiest port —> Money always flowing in. But at some point the cost of living and the relatively poor quality of life (high taxes, crime, bad infrastructure, dirt, etc.) has to curtail the settlement of “normal” families.
I would say three.
The Finger Lakes wine grape growing and tourist area has been growing rapidly for thirty years.
I visited there this past November and was impressed by the beauty of the area and the prosperity that was obvious in the availability of fine restaurants and hotels.
The odd thing that I noticed was that all of the wineries closed at 5 pm. Seems counter intuitive to me.
“Cuomo’s blocking fracking is just the latest of many bad decisions over the last 50 years.”
I can remember 20 years ago or more there was an electronic sign visible to people exiting the SF/Oakland Bay Bridge (excuse me, It’s been renamed the Willie Brown Bridge) into San Francisco that showed the shifting population numbers between NY and CA. That sign chronicled CA’s downfall. I just hope that now that Colorado has legalized MJ, that our NY trash moves there. Maybe Pelosi will decide to “retire” to Colorado! Oh, but that won’t help because she’s from Baltimore. New England has $hit on the whole rest of the country!