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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 1501280, member: 716"]
Thanks. Strathmore's nice, very involved neighborhood association - good choice. Putting aside the city/suburb thing for a minute (which is sad, because the city's a very nice place to live -- and it'd be a better place to live with a larger tax base and a couple thousand more middle-class families with children in the schools -- with a ridiculous perception problem), the resistance to change is frustrating.

Believe me, I hate change in most areas of my life. But good urban planning and transportation policy both matter. A lot. There's a reason D.C. and New York have gone from hellholes (ok, hyperbole in the case of New York) to paragons in terms of quality of life in the course of a generation. And it's not that nebulous "jobs" problem (though, again, Central New York could stand to improve employment opportunities for locals). We can't set policy based on ideas from the 1950s and scratch our heads and wonder why we've fallen behind our peers. Need to open our eyes and recognize what's spurred revitalization elsewhere.
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