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Barbara Samuels's avatar

IBM screwed Endicott and Broome County when it left its birthplace for Raleigh and Austin. Did you see the now mostly empty industrial buildings in downtown Endicott, once filled with thousands of highly skilled workers making high tech (for the time) hardware? The office parks on the outskirts that once housed IBM execs, lawyers, engineers, coders and other white collar jobs? IBM left nothing behind to sustain the economy of its hometown. Perhaps the same will happen to Silicon Valley. All of our cities and towns are disposable.

That said, you missed some good stuff in Binghamton, Endicott and Johnson City, and the surrounding mountains and river valleys are beautiful.

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Robert Lawrence's avatar

Thanks, I enjoyed this. I moved to the Binghamton area from Phoenix a few years ago, and it has really grown on me. Great people, interesting history, beautiful location, low cost of living, and small enough that traffic and pollution are not a perpetual nuisance but large enough to have a Target and a Chipotle. As you say though, it could be so much more with the right investments.

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