University of Rochester player kidnapping story

[Millhouse]

I spent 5 years in Rochester, 2 downtown, 1 in Pittsford and 2 in Penfield. I knew every inch of it.

It is a wonderful city, far better in some aspects than Syracuse imo. The suburban areas on the outskirts are great places to live.

Just like any city in America, there are bad areas. But, as a whole I found it to be much safer to travel about by foot than many areas on the South and West side of Syracuse. I lived in the heart of a very rough section for 1 year. A naive 21 yr old thinking he got an AWESOME deal on a huge house. We were put in precarious positions more than once. We also may have asked for it walking around drunk at all hours of the night.

Looking back, I think it's a much nicer city. Especially as a 30-something raising a family.

Rochester is just fine if you have any money. Everyone else is S.O.L. They need more cops. It's shocking how few there are. There just aren't enough (partly because they keep spending money on harebrained economic development schemes), they don't solve enough crimes because of it, criminals know it and people who live around the criminals don't talk to police because there is only downside from their perspective (people might find out and the cops don't solve the crimes)

UR was insane to put in that footbridge. Pie in the sky thinking - let's connect campus to criminals in hopes that rich people will move to Thurston road and make it all better.

 

[Finwad32]

Rochester is just fine if you have any money. Everyone else is S.O.L. They need more cops. It's shocking how few there are. There just aren't enough (partly because they keep spending money on harebrained economic development schemes), they don't solve enough crimes because of it, criminals know it and people who live around the criminals don't talk to police because there is only downside from their perspective (people might find out and the cops don't solve the crimes)

UR was insane to put in that footbridge. Pie in the sky thinking - let's connect campus to criminals in hopes that rich people will move to Thurston road and make it all better.

Quite a few strong points in here. Except for the fact that I didn't really have much money