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[–]PasLagardere 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

As a European I always thought New York should have plenty of lesbians since it’s so big. How would you describe the dating scene?

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    [–]7of99 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    This. Most of upstate New York is rural, lots of conservative communities, though the cities are typically very liberal. The major cities are places like Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo, and the distance west to east between Buffalo and Albany is almost 500 km. Not far outside the cities is mostly farmland and some mountainous terrain. The metropolitan areas I listed range from about 650,000 to 1.1 million compared to almost 19 million for the NYC area.

    Upstate New York used to have thriving industry but most of the good manufacturing jobs don't exist anymore and a lot of the cities are in decay. Extreme socioeconomic disparities exist in the cities, especially when compared with nearby suburbs, and the school districts seriously underperform with math proficiency rates of about 20% for math in Rochester and Buffalo, the two most populous (although the scores are for the city districts only and not the wider metro areas) compared to the state average of 55%. Some of the Buffalo schools had 5% proficiency rate in math. So I get why she paints it as bleak.

    https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/annual-report-on-rochester-has-no-surprises-on-racial-economic-disparities/Content?oid=11620995 https://buffalonews.com/news/local/buffalo-schools-turnaround-effort-hasnt-slowed-charter-movement/article_6d389406-9d2e-5230-be86-2c30d7e90b3b.html

    [–]PasLagardere 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Aaaah, that explains! Thanks a lot!