Rochester NY. Please tell me about it...

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Nephew went to school there 4 yrs and loved it.

I was there twice in connection to his schooling.

It is definitely cold, but there are colder places. ( lake effect moderates the cold temps in winter but produces monster snow falls. Not as bad as Buffalo , but way more than Delaware, I'm thinking.

It's got a small, old downtown area and a ring of suburbs. Manufacturing is pretty much gone of course, but tech industry has made up partially. World class Med Center: Strong.

I didn't like the fact that the ride up there is so long ( from NYC, 7 hrs.) So it's isolated.

OTOH it's not so far from Buffalo , Syracuse, Finger Lakes, Ithaca and skiing in the Adirondacks.

Summers are really nice there, I'll bet. ( There are even beaches within the city limits on Lake Ontario.). I think winters would be long and hard for most people.