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For those that think NY is just NY city

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The Adirondack Park is a publicly protected, elliptical area encompassing much of the northeastern lobe of Upstate New York, United States. It is the largest park and the largest state-level protected area in the contiguous United States, and the largest National Historic Landmark.

The park covers some 6.1 million acres (2.5×106 ha), a land area roughly the size of Vermont and greater than the National Parks of Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Glacier, and Great Smoky Mountains combined.

This is from Wikipedia and the Adirondack Park is only a portion of the state.
Adirondack Park wikipedia
 
As someone who grew up in the Park, let me give you the other side.

It's 6 million acres of over regulated land, much of owned by the state which used public funds (taxes) to buy it. The state now pays taxes on that land. Much of that land that you can't drive on, ride a horse on. motor boat on, land a sea plane on or even ride a bike on. No lumbering will ever take palce on any of that land ever again. You cut a tree on that land and you get arrested. The few poor souls living within the Park are under ridiculous regulation with few hopes for growth of any kind. The whole shebang is run by an Agency made up of enviro-whackos, usually from downstate (NYC), that will give special dispensation to "the right people" but keep the average guy from ever developing his property in any way. There is no work to speak of outside of low paying jobs and no hope of any decent jobs ever coming there.

IOW, it's a giant sized HOA run by NYC elitists. But boy, it sure is pretty....... :roll:
 
Yup the only thing turning any money within the park is "tourism". Translation: The rich snobby elite "city slickers" stroll around like kings and queens taking in the "local yokel ambiance" while all the residents have their hats in their hands waiting to see if the "Tourists" see fit to toss a few sheckles in their particular hat.

And that, my freinds, is the true definition of "tourism".

But yes, it sure is a PRETTY wasteland.

We sound a bit bitter towards our urban downstate brethren, you say???

Why whatever gave you that idea???

And I'm going to end this right now before Bret, Loren and I really get wound up on the subject and PO the moderators. (chuckle)
 
Now, will the last one to leave New York please turn out the lights???

Born and raised there. Left it 35 years ago. Could no longer take the high taxes, restrictive laws, crooked politicians, harsh winters, etc.

Never looked back.

Miss a few state "treasures" like Heid's Hotdogs in Liverpool, Doug's Fish Fry in Skaneateles, and New Hope Mills flour mills in Moravia.
 
I'm ready to go I have deep roots(translation a lot of stuff and some property to try to get rid of- working on it) Our three boys are in Colorado, we just came back from a visit, I would like to go west.
 
Y'all are suffering from the same type of stereotypes that plague us in the south. What people imagine from TV or an occasional visit is usually the farthest from the truth.
 
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