Norm Crow writes:

Think about it - look @ a NY state map. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse,
Binghamton, Albany, & that big cancr down there @ the mouth of the Hudson
River! The rest is mostly little & middlin' size stuff with a whole lot of
nothin' in between.


I've always tried to explain to Virginians that NY had most of its people in
the areas you name, leaving huge empty tracts for the rest of the 17 million.
What is it, roughly 14 million in the areas of huge population, 6 million acres
for the Adirondack Preserve, and on and on. IIRC, the Adirondack Preserve is
the largest of its kind in the world.

The only problems noted with mid-state and true upstate NY are the still fairly
high sales tax, and the fairly high state tax are still in place. Everything
else is like real life.

Charlie Self
"It is not strange... to mistake change for progress." Millard Fillmore