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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 1501242, member: 716"]
The difficulty in recruiting white-collar workers is very real, but the common rationale is something that jibes with what 0307 has been saying, and what I think Matt is missing.

When friends and colleagues struggle to get talented attorneys, doctors, and architects, they tell me that they hear the same thing: Syracuse is a backward place with a lower quality of life than peer cities. Why come to Syracuse with its small walkable downtown and auto-oriented periphery and suburbs when Pittsburgh, Columbus, or (yikes) Richmond are choices (to say nothing of New York, Chicago, Boston, D.C., et al.)?

I like Syracuse quite a bit (as you all can surely tell) and will defend it, but it's taken baby steps while other mid-sized cities have made real strides in the things that matter to millennials. And we've got intelligent people with good values on here waving the flag for building a stadium in a totally car-dependent area and not understanding that many of us would like to [U]walk[/U] from a baseball game to a bar?

You two are good posters, but I think you're two ships in the night on this matter. 0307's worth listening to on this one: Syracuse and Central New York are held back by locals' (and leaders') unwillingness to embrace change.
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