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Originally Posted by Shasta
That said, as an outsider that spent 4 years in the Finger Lakes for college, I enjoyed Rochester a lot more than Syracuse.
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Rochester is significantly bigger, richer, and more cosmopolitan than Syracuse, with more of a corporate and cultural base.
That said, Syracuse does have some nice attributes. Nicer topography than Rochester, Syracuse U. campus is very attractive, huge mall (for those into that sort of thing), and good historical stock downtown.
I attended Cornell, and honestly we didn't go to Syracuse or Rochester for much of anything. Ithaca had everything we needed, and IMO Ithaca is really the "Ann Arbor" version of Upstate NY (I think much better than Ann Arbor, but I'm highly biased
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If we wanted a "city", then we took the frequent Cornell bus into NYC.