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I moved to Oneonta, NY (between Albany & Binghamton) recently. Don't know much about the job situation but if it's scenery you're after this area is hard to beat. It really is a photographers gold mine. As an ex-photog I'm having lots of fun snapping away. Yes, it's cow country but also alpacas, sheep, horses and various other beasts of burden & profit. An animal lovers paradise. I love some of the unique houses here. It seems in "the city" people are obsessed with property values so not willing to risk offending potential buyers everything reverts to boring beige but in the country people take pride in the uniqueness of their homes and are not afraid of expressing themselves with color and style. Here's a sample of shots. You can see more at: geostars's photos and albums on webshots
Just hope the wind turbine salesmen don't come a callin'! There nothing that will blight a landscape quicker than several dozen 400 ft. industrial wind turbines!(
Except for cell towers and power lines. Nobody seems to object to them. If we want to run our 100' HDTVs and all the other goodies of modern civilization the power has to come from somewhere. This isn't some kind of nature preserve. There has to be the right balance between natural beauty and reality. I'd prefer cleaner energy from wind rather than invading countries and butchering and slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people so we can steal their resources so that oil cos and their political puppets can get richer and powerfuler. The ugliness of fossil fuels and their negative effects on the environment and civilization is a lot worse than wind turbines.
Oneonta used to be far more of an attractive sleepy town when I was a kid (read: 1970's) and my family in Cooperstown actually would shop on Main Street in Oneonta. Imagine that! The demise of Breese's Department Store by the mid 1980's ensured it never resemble what it once was.
Today that main drag is just wretched by comparison with an utter lack of thought by the town fathers as to the future of the community and the impressions left by such a desolate place. They should block off the street and make it a commons like you find in Ithaca then beef up the vigalance in removing the proliferation of thugs who seem to congregate there.
You clearly can find a lot of neat old buildings and residences for a photo collection yet it really is hit or miss compared to what the town once had. Prosperity has been in Oneonta over the year and accordingly stores and residences reflected that but the golden days have been gone for a while.
The loss of the great "Old Main" (aka Normal School) razed in 1977 was perhaps the biggest mistake made. The huge, lovely Richardsonian brick building of such architectural wealth could've been a perfect anchor for condos vs. the cheap temporary type apartment housing that sprouted up supporting the influx of students in a couple of locations. [Old Main was for comparison purposed a mega version, although with correct proportions, of what you see with the Stella Luna restaraunt, nee the old D&H passenger rail station on Market Street]
I still recall the 'Southside' before the malls came in and it was just farm land, car dealerships and Interskate-88, the rollerskate place, to be found over there!
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Yes to clean energy
