nice diversion, like Chump. The park is incredible,
I mentioned the park because there's 100+ towns and villages there, all of which are evidently incredible.
most of the places where people live are shitholes, as you well know.
We're going to have to agree to disagree, because we clearly have different definitions of shithole. Certainly there are places upstate - Gloversville, Amsterdam and the like - where the quality of life has disintegrated with the loss of manufacturing. And there are places like Schenectady and Rome that are just awful. But OTOH there's Cooperstown and Cobbleskill and Sharon Springs and Ballston Spa Lake and various other Lakes - Saranac, Placid, George, Schroon, Long, Indian, Saratoga, Round, and the Fingers - and any number of other places where quality of life - which I measure by population density, cost of living, crime, abject poverty, and taxes - is far superior to most of the six downstate counties where the garbage dumpster quality of life conditions are destroying the US economy to the benefit of a bunch of progressive hipster doofus man-bunned barristas from Williamsburg. If your exemplar for high living is Loudonville - which is essentially Syosset on the Mohawk - we're definitely not going to agree, because I'd rather live in the village of Nassau in Rensselaer County than nearly anywhere in Nassau County and I grew up in Laurel Hollow down the street from John and Yoko. It was a nice neighborhood but I wouldn't go back, not even to visit.
NYC has the finest set of urban parks in the nation
Bit of a non sequitur - I wasn't referencing the park qua park - and anyway NYC is tenth according to US News and World Report. DC is first. Of course I don't know how official these kinds of list are and US News and World Report is full of fake news and failing badly, so there's that.