I am very familiar with the Albany-Troy Schenectady (ATS) area. Used to live there, daughter went to college nearby, still had job assignments there in the last 15 years.
A couple points.
This is and has been a very low growth, even declining metro area compared to the rest of the nation. Had Brunswick Town(ship) been near Dallas or Atlanta or Chicago it would have been gobbled up years ago.
The area of hills above Troy was marginal farm land at best, Lots of scrub timber growing up on former small farms. It was not like the fertile crop land of the Cortland valley or big northern NY dairy farms.
I am sorry for the 90 year old man, and that his way of life has changed, but that has happened to a lot of folks, like all the people that worked at GE plants in Schenectady, now closed and torn down. Or the many stores in downtown Troy, long ago closed and now vacant.
This is a dynamic society, change is part of it. I do not like all of it , but it it is going to happen, whether I like it or not.
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