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9 NY Towns Named in Best Places To Live After Coronavirus
Nine Upstate New York towns landed on a list of best places in the Northeast to live after Coronavirus.
Life in 2020 is of course different than usual. So, with that comes changes in what would make a location idea. Newyorkupstate.com wrote about a list released by Business Insider about the best locations in the Northeast to live in post-COVID times. They looked at factors like pre-COVID employment rates, ability to work from home, cost of living, housing affordability, and more. And it looks like Upstate New York is the place to be. There were even a few locations from the Capital Region.
Landing on their list from Upstate New York (place and number):
- Glens Falls: #19
- Elmira: #18
- Albany: #10
- Utica: #9
- Buffalo: #7
- Binghamton: #5
- Syracuse: #3
- Ithaca: #2
- Rochester: #1
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