O have lots of fond memories growing up there. Adirondacks.
When I left, all the areas I used to enjoy as a kid had been closed to the public by the APA, the logging industry that supported several generations of my family had been destroyed by NY value liberals. The couple lumber related factories closed because of those NY value liberals.
Go to my home town on google Earth. Tupper Lake. Then look at what Detroit looks like. That town used to be leave it to beaver Americana.
Go look at the vaunted “NY values” and see what they did.
My love for N.Y. is not for the present one, but the one that existed in my childhood and early adulthood and well before that...because of family history and the visible things they left and are still there. I guess, in a way, it is somewhat akin to the way that Southerners view the Confederate flag.