Yeah, Buffalo is finally getting its act together after the loss of all of those steel mills. Niagara is pretty awesome, and even more amazing around Christmas when they do the festival of lights on both sides. Just don't park your car where the mist falls like I did once. I couldn't get into my car!
The advantage of high taxes is it keeps development rates very low. That means we still have country, farms, etc close to decent paying jobs. I could do a lot better in other states, but at the cost of not having any land or a pond unless I invested in a separate "camp" or something.
Mr. Tesla is somewhat of a hero for me as I have built Tesla coils, played a lot with induction motors, and much of what he developed is in use at my day to day job. I tried to get a picture of my son on his lap at the falls, but he is so wiggly he kept slipping off! The lap is pretty slippery.
