Jay: that’s what keeping me here, family. My son is getting married, just bought a house a few blocks away and my daughter is probably going to college in the general area. I don’t think I will be able to get the wifey away from the kids and possible grandkids.
At least some of us see what’s going on here. Unfortunately, we are too few and too disorganized to change much. I see continual decline in the area as the population ages, productive people move out, and the government gets ever larger and more expensive. Interesting fact, the budget for Erie County alone is ~$1.4 billion annually. That is is larger than the entire GNP of the 30 or so poorest countries!!! And we pay for local and state (and federal) government as well. WTF is going on. And we put a Republican into Albany, which did nothing. We had a Republican majority in Congress and in the White House and still the beat goes on with ever more government spending. I think the federal government is headed the same was as NYS. More like Europe than the US of old. Stagnant economy, creeping socialism, stifling government.
Sad to see it happen, it really is.