20 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 6 Aug 2023 \ parent \ on: New York City Isn’t Dead: My First Visit To Pub Key bitcoin
My wife has never been to NYC. She is American but she grew up in California and never made it out to the east coast. I am sure she would love to take a weekend trip to the big Apple at some point. Although if I do that, she is going to make me spend a day house shopping in little towns in Western NY. We have been considering buying a property in the US for sometime now and it seems her preferred past time is to find these beautiful old Victorian houses in places I don't want to live. I think she is trolling me at this point. Haha.
Western and northern NY are a different world. There is some beautiful housing stock and prices are low. But, the economy sucks and many towns are seedy or downright dangerous. I don't know your tastes, but I love the Adirondacks. It's sparsely populated with great hiking, rock climbing, etc. Nice people, too. Lake Placid is a nice compromise. Lots of restaurants and shopping and easy to get out to the wilderness.
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I keep trying to tell her there is a reason you can get a 5 bedroom victorian house with a huge lot in these areas for under 250k. No one wants to live there. I imagine the Adirondacks are likely similar to a larger scale version of where we live now. I would love to check them out.
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Lake Placid is also a college hockey mecca. We took a family vacation up there last summer
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