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Please do NOT go by what matt says and posts. If you look on here, you'll see he makes nothing but negative posts and trashes everything constantly. It gets old.
Please VISIT Rochester and the area before moving. The population is higher here - over a million in the area. Albany was around 800K last time I looked.
Yup, there's a Cheesecake Factory. Been there and ate there myself. It's in Pittsford. There's a brand new Trader Joe's and a super spiffy Wegman's in the same plaza. It's a plaza like Stuyvesant Plaza, but on steroids.
Definitely great pizza in the area! Plenty of unique dining places - mom & pop kinds of places and chains....so you've got your pick of both.
Oh and ROC is on a Great Lake, super close to the Finger Lakes, and a stone's throw away from Canada if you're interested in any of those things.
I read the wiki entry. Making Livingston, Ontario, Orleans and Wayne part of "Rochester metro", even if only for statistical purposes, is a huge stretch. I don't think one could realistically consider the farther outlying Monroe County towns as being part of Rochester Metro, let alone separate counties altogether.
I read the wiki entry. Making Livingston, Ontario, Orleans and Wayne part of "Rochester metro", even if only for statistical purposes, is a huge stretch. I don't think one could realistically consider the farther outlying Monroe County towns as being part of Rochester Metro, let alone separate counties altogether.
Arguing over statistical semantics is ridiculous!
They should absolutely be included in the city's metropolitan area if the counties share various cultural and economic ties, which they do. Atlanta's metro spans 28 counties and you want to discredit Rochester's statistics because they include 5? Come on...
The census bureau includes counties in a MSA based on if a certain percentage of residents from outlying counties commute into the core county....I believe it is 25%. This means that 1 out of every 4 workers in Ontario, Wayne, Livingston, and Orleans county commute into Monroe County on a daily basis. I think that calls for a fair enough inclusion of them in the Rochester MSA. I think if you asked most people in those counties what their "anchor city" would be...they would say Rochester.
They should absolutely be included in the city's metropolitan area if the counties share various cultural and economic ties, which they do. Atlanta's metro spans 28 counties and you want to discredit Rochester's statistics because they include 5? Come on...
I don't want to "discredit" any stats and I don't give a crap about Atlanta's metro. Stats are stats and can be massaged for many purposes. To normal people thinking about living in the Rochester area, Lyons or Albion don't really factor in.
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