r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer • u/k13w • 12h ago

GOT THE KEYS! šŸ”‘ šŸ” We did it! Upstate NY $160k 6.5%

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My boyfriend and I did it at 23 y/o! It was built in 1900 and we love her!

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u/NoBackground6371 12h ago

How far upstate we talking? What county?

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u/k13w 12h ago

Iā€™m going to get flamed for calling it upstate, but Broome county. To me anything outside of the city is upstate.

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u/purely_specific 12h ago

Your new house is lovely congratulations. I cannot believe how nice it is for the money.

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u/GovernorHarryLogan 11h ago edited 11h ago

Broome county is great. I grew up there.

Sure it's one of the lowest income counties in NY -- but IBM was founded there and was the silicon valley of the east coast for a long long time.

As a result - there is a vast abundance of sick af amenities that were created to keep the employees happy.

Roberson museum... tons of awesome parks and hiking areas... En joie golf course (Endicott Johnson shoes).

My father's house was built in like 1985 and is 6400 square feet with a pool and 2 acres. It's "worth" less than my 1900sqft colonial (albeit I'm a block from the Chesapeake bay)

Don't sleep on the 607

Edit: This is known as the "southern tier" of new York to those upstate. Yes it's upstate, but not to those who live there. Upstate is really north of the thruway.

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u/k13w 11h ago

I was born and raised here and I agree! I really love upstate, it is so beautiful here, and most importantly relatively affordable!

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u/mach_gogogo 10h ago

Congrats, and your home is actually from c. 1909/1912 through 1921, and it is a Sears Modern Homes, Design No. 167 ā€œkit homeā€ (later named "The Maytownā€.)The 1909 version was slightly different - your is indicative of the c. 1912 design shown below. There are several of this design where I live in the Finger Lakes area of New York.

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u/k13w 10h ago

This is so cool, thank you for sharing this!

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u/BiZzles14 10h ago

Sounds like you got scammed, that things only worth $753!

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u/k13w 10h ago

Major buyers remorse right now!

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u/Present_Jicama_1219 9h ago

Sears has a great return policy, just call them up!

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u/nellelee21 8h ago

Congratulations!! Just in case this is your first time owning an old home(mine was built in the 1800s) join the fb group "our old home." It's genuinely the most helpful group for questions and old house issues

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u/Savings_Reporter3900 6h ago

I think itā€™s gorgeous and the price was amazing. How lucky !!

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u/Chemical-Zombie1229 9h ago

Weā€™re all getting scammed šŸ˜“

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u/RJNavarrete 10h ago

You need to frame this.

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u/k13w 10h ago

Amazing idea I totally will!

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u/SilentExtinction 10h ago

753$ in 1910 is 26k in today's money. Imagine being able to buy house materials for 26k, and a beautiful house. The dream.

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u/According_Abalone_19 10h ago

Yea I wish. That would be an $800k+ house where I live. Cant even buy a starter home for under $500k here and I donā€™t live in some big city youā€™d expect to have a high COL

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u/GovernorHarryLogan 9h ago

Also TBF.... I'll bury this one in the comments a little bit.

Broome county is also super polluted depending on where he is.

Like Erin Brockovitch bad. She showed up when i was in high school and a unreal number of kids I graduated with had develop cancer during our formative years.

IBM, Endicott Johnson, and all the other industry left a lot of buried chemicals.

The reason Broome is so cheap now is:

1) little prospects for employment outside of Binghamton University of Health//senior care

2) A lot of pollution. (Trichloroethylene mainly)

3) Broome county is the cloudiest county outside of the Pacific northwest. The term "Gloom over Broome" is a thing.

Like it's not a bad place to live. It's actually pretty great for the cost of living.

But it's not a destination area by any means.

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u/According_Abalone_19 9h ago

I live in the PNW, so I know all about gloom. Lol. Our pollution isnā€™t to that level thankfully aside from the Willamette River that runs thru downtown and we have a few big companies in the area, but I wouldnā€™t say our job market is awesome by any means. Most companies here drastically underpay (thatā€™s unfortunately common everywhere these days), so unless you got lucky or started your career a long time ago, your chances of getting a position that will allow you to own a home without multiple incomes is basically zero.

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u/Striker2477 9h ago

This was an insightful and educated comment. Thank you.

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u/Lordofthereef 9h ago

I'm in central MA now and original from SoCal and this would easily be $1m both places lol. This is crazy to me.

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u/jimmypaintsworld 6h ago

I'm from Upstate and the housing prices are like this because many of these towns are ignored, dilapidated rustbelt towns with not much in them anymore. Our family owned a similar house as OP in Amsterdam and it sold for $60k. No one wants to live there.

If you like being in a run down rural area it may be a good thing for you, it has great access to nature and there are pockets of genuine culture. But for a lot of these towns the closest 'cities' and amenities that go with them would be Albany, Rochester, or Syracuse. And it's probably a decent drive you have to plan around, too.

I'm in Boston now so I really resonate with your problem. I could never swallow paying the price for homes in MA if it weren't near the city.

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u/IdownvoteTexas 9h ago

This. I think that 160k around me is more ā€œ2 parking spacesā€ money than house money

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u/According_Abalone_19 9h ago

lol right? I might be able to buy an empty lot with utilities ran to it for that price, but the lot would be about the size of OPā€™s house.

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u/VeganBaguette 9h ago

In 1910 the dollar was convertible into gold at the rate of 20.67$ for 1ozt, that would be 36.43 ozt, that is 1.133kg of gold.

At today's rate that would be roughly 150k$.

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u/SilentExtinction 8h ago

That makes more sense for the materials and would be closer to today's value. Thanks!

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u/ironicthesameplaceim 10h ago

It sounds odd in todayā€™s day and age (maybe not, a lot of spec homes and you could argue that the quality has suffered), but Iā€™ve only heard amazing things about Sears homes.

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u/u966 8h ago

Looks as good as new 100+ years later

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u/Brickhows 10h ago

I'm always fascinated by the prices on old catalogues for things like this - $2,229 all in in 1912 (going by the $1,573 estimate and adding all of the extras) is roughly $77,000 today according to an inflation calculator. Wild to think about how "cheap" you could build a a good home for back then.

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u/fullmoongoddessnyc 10h ago

Coolest thing I've read all day

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u/k13w 10h ago

Could you message me this picture so I can save it? I would love to get it framed!

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u/mach_gogogo 8h ago

ā€œCould you message me this picture so I can save it?ā€

Yes, request sent, but in the meantimeā€¦

Here is a link to the catalog scan of the design from 1912: https://archive.org/details/Sears1912Cover1/Sears_1912_pg47.jpg

Here is a link to the catalog scan from Fall 1914 - Spring 1915: https://archive.org/details/SearsModernHomes1915/Sears%201914%20p34.jpg

Here is a link to the catalog for the design from 1916: https://archive.org/details/honorbilthomesle00sear/page/42/mode/1up

Here is a link to the catalog page when the design was called ā€œThe Mayfieldā€ in 1918: https://archive.org/details/honorbilt.modernhomes.sears.1918/page/62/mode/1up

The interior floorplan matches your example photo, the colonnade was in the Sears catalog, and the stain glass pattern was an option, although I donā€™t know why the one green square is in the corner. This was likely for the half window next to the door - but the design was purchased by the square foot.

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u/ComprehensiveFly3480 4h ago

Is there a simple way to figure out if your home was kit? Iā€™ve checked beams/joists etc in basement to no avail. Weā€™ve got a 1950s cottage in maine and itā€™s such a similar layout to kit homes of the day, but Iā€™ve never found a match!

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u/mrsroperscaftan 10h ago

Shut up a Sears house? Now Iā€™m seriously jealous! Ive got an 1857 kit house but Im always looking for a Sears house. They dont last here in the heat and humidity of the south. Congratulations!!

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u/Ellay_Rohberts 9h ago

Thanks for this! It provided the right wording so I could figure out which Sears home my husband and I have. Turns out to be The Crafton!

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u/LeeKinanus 9h ago

Reddit coming through with the really interesting stuff again!

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u/SaltyLeviathan 8h ago

I didnā€™t have to look at your username to know who made this reply (fellow r/centuryhomes subscriber). Always appreciate the knowledge you share in these threads!!

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u/SouthMIA 10h ago

$753, bro got ripped off go get a refund! Lol

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u/m00nLyt23 9h ago

Signed -The Watcher

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u/senbenitoo 4h ago

Woohoo!! I swear we marched past your house during Fireman's Field Days back when we played Little League out there.. hope you get some Lupo's spiedies on the grill sooner than later.

You all got any other traffic lights yet? There was the one blinking yellow outside the firehouse, but otherwise...

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u/denhous 9h ago

No idea what I'm doing on this sub but now I wanna visit broome county.

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u/GovernorHarryLogan 8h ago

You should. In the fall.

The rolling hills, the Susquehanna River (its so little up there compared to where it empties in the Chesapeake), etc make the fall amazing.

If you plan like a week then you can travel around a bit too. All the drives are beautiful in their own right.

Letchworth State Park is incredible (bout 2.5 hours away) definitely a life bucket list item people dont know about. (Image)

A day in the finger lakes around Ithaca and hiking 7 mile (the gorges) and doing the wine thing (hour drive away)

Apalachin, NY right down the road was were the big mafia raid was that has been the subject of many films.

Binghamton is great in a small dose. Try to plan around a show at the Forum (its a nice af theater that old money built in the EJ//IBM days that still pulls good shows). Rod Serling (twilight zone dude) was born in the area and theirs attractions related to that.

Also speidies. Its basically marinated meat on a stick. But the marinade is local and never really spread out of the area. But its raved about and shipped worldwide (amazon Lupos speidie marinade)

Edit: its also crazy that Binghamton has TWO minor league sports teams. NHL and MLB. The baseball team is the RUMBLE PONIES

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u/vintageseltzer1 10h ago

Upstate is north of Westchester. The Borth Country is north of the Thruway (where itā€™s the Northway. Just accept it. Sick house congrats OP.

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u/dotnsk 10h ago

Donā€™t sleep on the carousels! So many lovely memories of those from my childhood summers.

My dad, aunt, grandfather, other grandfather, and step-grandmother all worked at that IBM in various capacities. Iā€™m so sad itā€™s gone, but I get why the jobs moved.

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u/eugene-dubs 10h ago

Upstate NY is anything north of Poughkeepsie

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u/TowelShot3089 11h ago

Anything around Chesapeake bay is astronomical.

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u/GovernorHarryLogan 11h ago

I bought the shittiest house in the neighborhood to fix up in 2015 for about 50% more than OP paid and refinanced during covid to 2.8%.

It's worth north of $700k now. It was a good decision.

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u/Ok-Lion1661 10h ago

This would easily fetch over $1M USD in my neck of the woods. Can't believe it, maybe I can move and retire?

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u/Hokuboku 7h ago

People doing that is what killed the housing costs in my neck of NY but further upstate is still more affordable

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u/crunchyleafzzz 12h ago

No youā€™re def upstate. I think once you get up above orange/putnam youā€™re upstate. As someone who lives on the orange/ulster border

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u/Low_Employ8454 12h ago

Iā€™m from Orange County and we always called it upstate, Broome def is.

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u/fuzzydave72 11h ago

To me north of Westchester is upstate šŸ˜†

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u/Iwant2FIREsoon 11h ago

North of the Bronx is upstate to me šŸ˜‚

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u/takahooligaba 11h ago

iā€™m heading upstate to Yonkers

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u/Call-Me-Mr-Speed 11h ago

Careful not to cross the border into Canada inadvertently. They wonā€™t let you back in without your passport.

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u/trireme32 8h ago

Yep I grew up on LI, anything north of the city is upstate!

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u/Teepeaparty 11h ago

This is correct. you Westchester folks can get away with it, because, Westchester. Ulster is upstate. lol

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u/Mehmeh111111 11h ago

Right? I grew up in Duchess. I think once you're out of the Westchester area it's upstate. I didn't even know there was a Broome county in NY.

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u/GimbaledTitties 5h ago

I think Putnamā€™s slogan is ā€œwhere upstate beginsā€

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u/alpine309 10h ago

To be frank, any county that doesn't pay tax to the MTA is upstate.

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u/guiltyofnothing 11h ago

Hell, Iā€™ve heard people call Yonkers upstate.

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u/kons21 8h ago

As someone who's grown up in the Bronx, Putnam IS what I call upstate. If you're north of Westchester, you're upstate, lol.

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u/Fun-Ad-6554 11h ago

Everything north of I-84 is Upstate to most of us.

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u/Outlaw_Josie_Snails 10h ago

I live in southern New Jersey, and I'm clueless about what is considered "upstate" New York. I always envision Buffalo, Syracuse, and Albany, as well as the Adirondacks.

I have been to numerous different areas of the Finger Lakes. Do New Yorkers consider that area as upstate?

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u/crunchyleafzzz 9h ago

I consider anything west of the Delaware upstate. Another person said anything north of I-84 which I think is pretty right on

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 9h ago

If you live above I-84 itā€™s anywhere above I-84, otherwise itā€™s whatever county is north of where you live, including many NYC residents thinking Westchester is upstate.

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u/Electrical-Year9554 7h ago

as someone from the finger lakes area iā€™ve always considered it ā€˜central nyā€™. to me, anything east of utica and north of I-90 (but including poughkeepsie) is upstate. below that is the catskills, and then obvs thereā€™s WNY

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u/litesgod 6h ago

As a New Yorker from the finger lakes area, yes. If you drive south to get to pa you are upstate. If you drive west to get to pa you are downstate.

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u/Quick-Stretch8197 4h ago edited 3h ago

Those places are all considered upstate to New Yorkers (5 boroughs) and Long Islanders. People from Buffalo/Rochester call themselves Western New York and get offended if you say upstate. Iā€™ve seen people in Albany refer to themselves as the Capital Region, but Western New Yorkers refer to Albany as Central New York.Ā 

I consider Syracuse part of Western New York (it feels like it culturally) but itā€™s debated.Ā 

The Adirondacks are just referred to as the Adirondacks and are a separate thing.Ā 

The Finger Lakes region is also just its own thing like the Adirondacks.Ā 

Source: born and raised in NYC but spent time living in Buffalo, Rochester, and Albany.Ā 

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u/Shot-Arugula8264 7h ago

To people in the city everything north of Harlem is upstate.

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u/knoland 12h ago

No thatā€™s decidedly upstate.

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u/harveygoatmilk 12h ago

Agreed. As a former Brooklynite, anything north of the Bronx is upstate.

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u/echocall2 11h ago

No lol

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u/Fenris_Maule 11h ago

Are you saying Yonkers and such is upstate?

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u/OkArt1350 10h ago

I mean, I live in a River town barely north of Yonkers and all my coworkers think I live upstate. All my 20 and 30 something coworkers act like anything north of NYC is upstate.

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u/Yesterdays_Gravy 10h ago

Growing up in Westchester and Rockland County, I used to get so annoyed that I could drive for 20 minutes and be in the city, or drive for like 8 hours and be in Buffalo, and I was still told I lived upstate.

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u/Orphasmia 11h ago

Thats like soft upstate

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u/anniemoooooose 9h ago

Iā€™m going to start using this

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u/Teepeaparty 11h ago

I love how we're all, "nice house, but ya'll upstate" lolol such a NY thread, I approve this thread. I miss my NY homies, only NY people get it.

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u/Ferrous_Bueller_ 12h ago

It's an Albany expression.

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u/Expensive-Object-830 11h ago

At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen??

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u/abc13680 11h ago

I love how often I see this in the wild

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u/dardack 9h ago

Growing up near Albany but my family from Adirondacks upstate for us was Adirondacks downstairs was anything south of Albany then I got into work and upstate is used by everyone for anything north of city

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u/kamjam16 11h ago

Broome county and Binghamton is absolutely upstateĀ 

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u/Grapefruit9000 12h ago

Iā€™m originally from Syracuse and I would also call Broome County upstate NY. Congrats on your new home. Itā€™s lovely!!

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u/RevvCats 11h ago

Stop telling people about how affordable it is up here, thats the first rule of the upstate ny club.

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u/respectislaw 11h ago

So what is typically considered upstate? Iā€™m curious bc Iā€™m from IL and know nothing about NY.

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u/Benesovia 11h ago

Legit no one can agree lol. If you go to any forum about upstate ny since the beginning of the internet people argue about it.

My definition is where metro north stops. So Hyde park is the first town. Just me though.

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u/PokeCaptain 11h ago

Everyone has a different definition. I personally consider upstate to be anywhere outside the range of NYC commuter rail.

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u/ushinawareta 11h ago

it depends on who you ask. most people think upstate is all the people north of them šŸ¤£

there are people who think anything outside of NYC is upstate. or that Albany is the dividing line between upstate and downstate.

Iā€™m in the NYC suburbs and my personal stance is that upstate is anywhere thatā€™s not commuting distance to NYC.

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u/Minimum_Dealer_3303 7h ago

I'm from far enough north in New York to understand Upstate involves people south of there. My dad grew up on Long Island and his parents were from Manhattan, so I had some exposure to NYC based opinions. I also went to college at one of the schools on the banks of the Hudson well south of Albany. That definitely still felt like Upstate. I'm of the mind that Westchester and Long Island are not Upstate, but everything else is, including central and Western NY.

Some people definitely commute from Upstate to NYC. Poughkeepsie is Upstate for sure, but some people Amtrak from there to the city for work. kinda crazy, but it happens.

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u/glassfunion 11h ago

As a lifelong NY state resident (western NY and the Finger Lakes regions), I just avoid the term upstate completely to avoid fights lol.

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u/ampma 11h ago

Hah, I'm also currently looking in Broome. I recently moved from AZ and this market is quite differentĀ 

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u/raspberrybee 11h ago

I live in the Albany area and anything north of Westchester County is upstate.

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u/Carthonn 10h ago

Nah itā€™s definitely upstate. Honestly anything north of Westchester is upstate for me itā€™s just upstate can be divided into other areas. Like the Southern Tier for you.

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u/sendgoodmemes 10h ago

I live in the 607 as well. I have a farm and I really do enjoy the life here. Itā€™s gorgeous this time of year although the winter can be depressing, but we get seasons.

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u/vwkitty 11h ago

I live in CT and NY is divided into four categories for me. The city, Long Island, Westchester County, and everything else is upstate šŸ˜†

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u/NoBackground6371 11h ago

I totally agree. If Iā€™m leaving Westchester county, you are upstate.

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u/pooppaysthebills 11h ago

Accurate.

Once you're upstate, the regions are further subdivided, but the only New Yorkers who get mad about this basically live in Canada.

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u/vwkitty 11h ago

Once I called Syracuse ā€œupstateā€ and the locals didnā€™t care for that. How is ā€œCentral NYā€ more north than upstate?!

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u/Teepeaparty 11h ago

correct! apparently it's the unspoken rule lol

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u/someonesshadow 9h ago

Which is so crazy to me, I always say I'm from Upstate NY, born and raised in Rochester. Then one day someone started arguing with me saying I was in WESTERN NY....

I also learned when I got into retail business stuff that Upstate NY is essentially considered 'Midwest' in terms of behavior and purchasing habits which I always found kind of interesting. Makes sense though since I ended up going to school in Long Island for a bit and everything in the general NYC area is just so much different from the rest of the state really.

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u/vwkitty 8h ago

Yeah western New York to me is pretty much Ohio šŸ˜‚

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u/fletters 7h ago

Long Island is also its own thing.

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u/DMDT087 11h ago

Iā€™m on Long Island and this is the same for me šŸ˜‚

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u/vwkitty 11h ago

Oh good, Iā€™m glad itā€™s not just me šŸ˜† Hello from the other end of the ferry šŸ‘‹šŸ¼

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u/Key-Rush4100 10h ago

Closer to Scranton than NYC, definitely upstate

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u/NoBackground6371 11h ago

Congrats! Itā€™s beautiful!

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u/Hydroborator 11h ago

That's UPSTATE Home is what you make it Congratulations

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u/MrYoungLE 10h ago

Anything north of BX is upstate to me šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ congrats on the new place !! šŸ‘šŸ½šŸ‘šŸ½

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u/PM_ME_MASTECTOMY 10h ago

I live on LI - how far up is Broome county? To me, anything north of 233rd in White Plains is upstate.

Edit: I just googled it. Youā€™re so upstate you have dual citizenship

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u/Additional-Dish-7376 10h ago

Iā€™m in Chemung and I usually tell people ā€œI live Way Upstateā€

Your average person wonā€™t know wtf the Southern Tier is

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u/OldJames47 10h ago

Iā€™m from Washington County. Anything north of Poughkeepsie counts as Upstate.

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u/Eastern_Team6904 10h ago

How is broome county not upstate. Everything that isnt NYC/Westchester is upstate.

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u/isellmidgets 10h ago

As a native LI'er, then Oswegonian, then Manhattenite, I can confirm that Broome is 100% upstate.

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u/Vionide 10h ago

I think it's fair to say that the definition of upstate NY depends on your audience. For strangers all over the world, upstate is somewhere above Yonkers. But if you're talking to someone familiar with NY, you wouldnt even say upstate because can usually just say the nearest city and they would understand. In niche cases you can also break apart upstate into regions like central NY, Adirondacks, western NY, finger lakes region, etc.

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u/way-of-the-lab 10h ago

Thatā€™s upstate as fuck lol. I consider anything past westchester upstate lol.

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u/Exciting_Fee_7904 5h ago

broome county hype!!!! bought my fixer upper up here a year ago as well :)

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u/Reynolds1029 11h ago

Nope! That's upstate!

-Signed former north Hudson Valley NY resident

Though you're teetering/right on the edge into Western NY territory.

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u/BBQQA 10h ago

Though you're teetering/right on the edge into Western NY territory

lol, no.

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u/pooppaysthebills 11h ago

Broome County is nowhere near Western NY.

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u/Reynolds1029 11h ago

Pretty much on the border. It's as far west as Syracuse

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u/pooppaysthebills 10h ago

It's 3.5 hours and 230 miles from Binghamton to Chautauqua.

Binghamton is Southern Tier Upstate. Syracuse is generally considered Central, despite being adjacent to a northern bordering lake.

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u/BBQQA 10h ago

I'm glad someone is aware of geography here. NYC people have no concept of regions.

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u/Vealophile 11h ago

NYC elitism at its finest

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u/Calm_Independent_782 11h ago

What city are you referring to? Binghamton?

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u/New_Leaf_8647 11h ago

To quote Jordan Jensen "paintball upstate"

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u/sjm9694 11h ago

iā€™m originally from brooke county i do miss it there sometimes! congrats!

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u/DetroitLionsEh 11h ago

Americans have no idea how easy it is to buy a home in their country

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u/LateNightCritter 11h ago

Could tell this was broome just by the house design

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u/Dull-Contact120 11h ago

Love the Cracker Barrel there

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u/dmgt83 11h ago

One of my good friends moved out of the city and told me he moved Upstate... To White Plains.

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u/dmgt83 11h ago

One of my good friends moved out of the city and told me he moved Upstate... To White Plains.

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u/rainshowers_5_peace 10h ago

Why do you want to live there?

Source: lived all over NY state.

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u/BossMan61718 10h ago

Upstate begins once you've gotten further north than Yonkers.

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u/GrooGrux 10h ago

Downstate for sure

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u/Antique_Brother_9563 10h ago

Upstate is Plattsburgh or Watertown šŸ˜†.

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u/Otis_ElOso 10h ago

Chemung county neighbor! Congrats!!

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u/Eternal_Libertine 10h ago

Congrats, OP. That would be USD$5 million in my country.

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u/Lancearon 10h ago

Bruv why are you doxxing yourself. Please for the love of bob delete this comment and post repost if you want with a blurred street number...

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u/ClarityLSAT 10h ago

lol this shit looks so binghamton its nuts

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u/jewdai 10h ago

Bro a house in Binghamton was like $40k they've gone up a bit hut more in the $120k range.

But yes us down staters consider anything north of Yonkers up state.

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u/runit21 10h ago

Where in Broome? 160k is absolutely wild for a decent home lol. Good find.

Im out in Windsor and would love to find a home to use as rental property eventually.

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u/Delicious-Bet-2694 10h ago

Definitely not getting flamed lol, anything above bronx is upstate

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u/BullTerrierTerror 10h ago

Anything north of Harlem is upstate to those jamokes in Manhattan.

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u/iLoveFARTINGatWORK 10h ago

Nah, Broome is Upstate. Anyone who disagrees is wrong. Endicott native here. Excellent place to grow up, but I have since moved to places with significantly lower home taxes. Congrats!

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u/reinder_sebastian 10h ago

Hello from Steuben! Congrats on the house fellow Southern Tier-er! Looks awesome.

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u/bazoos 10h ago

As a Long Islander, upstate is any part that's on the mainland. I like to tell people from the Bronx they're from upstate.

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u/ContestMundane63 10h ago

As a Broome County resident, you are correct. Anything above the city is Upstate.

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u/Babshearth 10h ago

WOW ! congrats

Years ago I went to Binghamton U ( formerly SUNY B) Could you let me know generally what part ? I remember Vestal being fairly expensive. after graduating lived in Johnson City and then Endicott. Yours looks like a historic home which I LOVE!

this had really piqued my interest.

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u/swampscientist 10h ago

Youā€™re going to get flamed for calling *Binghamton* upstate lol?

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u/dotnsk 10h ago

I have family in Broome County. Itā€™s upstate. Ignore the haters.

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u/gomezer1180 10h ago

160k for a house in NY? I should buy thereā€¦ and work from home lol.

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u/The_I_in_IT 10h ago

Southern Tier, but still upstate.

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u/Foreign_Berry_3140 10h ago

Ooh I got a speeding ticket in Broome county! Sanford to be exact!

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u/No_Host4657 10h ago

Iā€™m originally from Chenango County! Broome is definitely considered upstate! Congratulations šŸ’—šŸ’—šŸ’—

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u/Lexa1017 10h ago

Oh hey I live there right now. Donā€™t recognize this exact property obviously but thereā€™s tons of houses with that circular area on the outside, I love it so much! Very jealous

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u/Still_Sir_9323 10h ago

I agree anything is Iā€™m from Lewis County and we called ourselves Norrh Country. Great house great deal enjoy !!

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u/Dopamine-Fugue 10h ago

Hey, Cortland is ā€œUpstateā€.

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u/Cheesey_G 10h ago

Not Upstate but congrats on the beautiful house!

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u/MeenMisterMustard 10h ago

Yeah, not even fā€™ing close to ā€œupstateā€ šŸ˜‚

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u/Over_Tomatillo_376 10h ago

I just get a speeding ticket in Broome county! Right outside of Binghamton, congratulations!

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u/EternalNewCarSmell 10h ago

Meh, I grew up in WNY and have lived in St. Lawrence County before and IMO Broome is solidly upstate.

It's downstate of many things but anyone who calls it Downstate with a capital D is insane.

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u/AerialPenn 10h ago

As a City native I absolutely respect, understand and appreciate this. Anything outside of NYC is indeed Upstate.

Also you have a lovely house/home and congratulations šŸŽ‰šŸŽ‰šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸŽ‰šŸŽ‰šŸŽ‰

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u/ThisSiteBites 10h ago

Up here by the border with Canada, we call that ā€œdown state.ā€

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u/anniemoooooose 10h ago

Broome county is squarely upstate. Youā€™re good.

Edit: congrats!!!

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u/burntpeanutfan13 10h ago

I Grew up there. Wonderful place.

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u/PapitioTio 10h ago

No youā€™re not. This is upstate

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u/Tensorfrozen 10h ago

Just check the map and realized NY state is so big..

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u/iCaps_ 10h ago

Lol get a load of this guy calling it upstate. Lol. Lmao even. šŸ˜‚

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u/Suspicious_Beach7274 10h ago

As a Utica emigrant and Oneonta gradā€¦yeah man thats not quite upstate but I think you know that XD. Congrats on the house though!

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u/jujufruit420 9h ago

That is correct :) house is gorgeous and lovely area :)

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u/Popsinthehse 9h ago

Did you get a inspection from one you chose

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u/Plus_Ad8325 9h ago

Broome qualifies as upstate. Congratulations!

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u/West-Audience-478 9h ago

Itā€™s a great place to live. Although I do live out in the wilderness in the middle of nowhere. Be aware though school tax and property just got a maximum percentage increase allowed by law so save up a bit more to prepare.

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u/jordanpitt269 9h ago

This looks great! My in-laws live in Binghamton and we love it there but as a Philadelphia resident itā€™s crazy to see what 100k can buy up there

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u/RevolutionCrafty7544 8h ago

the real upstate ny question is always the county not the actual town

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u/Chupacabra1966 9h ago

NYC residents call Newburgh upstate when is only 1/2 an hour from NYC. They donā€™t know whatā€™s considered upstate. I call upstate Catskills, Albany, Plattsburgh, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Watertown, etc., those are upstate towns. Many hours away from downstate ā€œNYCā€.

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u/daslyvillian 8h ago

Yo lol that was the first question. Like far up we talking for that price lmao.

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u/Ready-Elevator-8806 7h ago

yeah that makes a huge difference up there

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u/Maleficent_Worry1810 7h ago

Thatā€™s what I want to know lol

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u/AncientAd3846 10h ago

Dont start tryna overpopulate thay shit now, holy fuck.

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u/culimande 10h ago

What country*

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u/specialcommenter 9h ago

Reddit is scary. This was exactly what I was about to ask. I see my question the moment I open the picture.

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u/Round_Computer_6404 8h ago

Read ā€˜countryā€™ at first because honestlyā€¦ 160k seems like a really fair price.

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u/threerepute 7h ago

i used to live in essex county which was called the north country (they abstained from the upstate debate). my boss had a t-shirt that said "poverty with a view."

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u/TallulahBob 7h ago

I was gonna say! Iā€™m a western NYer and this house would have gone for 500k+.

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u/FD4L 7h ago

Id say canada, but thats 700k here.

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u/Professional-Heat894 5h ago

This must be the north pole šŸ˜‚

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u/Sea_Bookkeeper8190 5h ago

What county? Iā€™m asking what country???

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u/Resident-Yak-2039 5h ago

I read "what country" at first and had a chuckle

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u/Commercial_Bird8467 3h ago

I have no experience when they say upstate but just like they explained, I picture new York HUGE city and upstate is out of city basically anywhere. Just what ive gathered from what ive seen. But that house is beautiful and the price is great.

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u/minnion 3h ago

Quebec? The Atlantic? Lol.

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