balladofwindfishes
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Cheap land. Hernietta is a wasteland of wetlands. RIT can't even add more parking lots because the land is so poor, it's cost prohibitive to drain the wetlands so the foundation for the lot is secure. Or least that was the excuse they gave.
Monroe County is probably one of the most moderate left leaning counties in the entire state. We're like as vanilla, politically, of an area as you could possibly find. Although ironically we end up being a major unsung area for a lot of issues like women's rights, racism and even occupy wallstreet. Rochester had one of the longest running and active OWS groups in the entire country. Louise Slaughter is also one of the more liberal house members, also from this area.
And nobody seems to notice our booming tech industry, while the cost of living stays down. While other tech areas struggle with obscene costs of living, we quietly sit here with our great growing industry while the cost of living actually continues to go down. You'd also assume an area where the biggest employer, who employed 70% or so of the population goes under, it would destroy the entire city. Not here though. It's as if Kodak never even existed, we've just kept on chugging along.
