If you haven't already, you may want to see a few photos I took of the Liverpool area in two older threads:
https://www.city-data.com/forum/syrac...-pictures.html
https://www.city-data.com/forum/syrac...burb-clay.html
First let me explain the geography of Liverpool. Several of our zip codes cross village/town lines. It can be quite confusing to people not familiar with the village, town, zip code system found in Upstate NY.
-Liverpool is both a small village in the Town of Salina (population 33,000) and a zip code in two large towns...Salina and Clay.
-The western part of the
Town of Salina is the Liverpool area, which is along the shore of Onondaga Lake.
-Most of the highly populated parts of the
Town of Clay (population 60,000) is either called “Liverpool, NY” or “North Syracuse, NY”. The Liverpool part is the western half of Clay, North Syracuse is the southeastern part of Clay. Most likely, if you live in an address for Liverpool, your school district will be Liverpool, the same can be said for North Syracuse. The Liverpool school district is good and is better than North Syracuse. Both are large districts, Liverpool has over 8,000 students. North Syracuse has over 10,000. Of the suburban school districts in Upstate New York, only Greece (outside Rochester) is larger than North Syracuse.
In my opinion, the Liverpool area is very family friendly. Some parts aren't as well-maintained as some of the newer suburbs, but I think that's quite normal in many communities across the country. Probably much the same as older suburbs found in New Jersey built in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. There are newer developments in the Liverpool area but most of the growth is taking place north, west in Lysander or east in Cicero.
The Village of Liverpool is a nice little place. Onondaga Lake Park is the main attraction in the area. It is a very nice park...sort of Syracuse's own "Central Park". In the summer, it very popular with locals who use it to bike, skate or walk/jog, lay out in the sun, ride the trolley or even picnic. The Salt Museum is located there. The museum shows how the salt industry brought growth to Syracuse during the Erie Canal days. During the wintertime around Christmas, the Parkway is turned into a holiday lights display called "Lights on the Lake".
In my opinion, the most attractive residential neighborhoods in the North Syracuse/Liverpool area are just west of the Village of North Syracuse. This is where some of the higher end homes are located. I believe half this area (southeastern Clay) is in the North Syracuse school district, half is in the Liverpool district. These neighborhoods are off Buckely Road, and Bear Road. The North Medical Center is close by and the Taft Road Wegmans is close too. Near by there is a new housing development in the planning stages across from the Taft Road Wegmans.
If you don't mind the snowy winters, I think you'll like this area!