EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ROCHESTER NY

[@floydblandston108]

I moved to Upstate NY from someplace with very expensive housing. Within 7 years I'd paid off my ENTIRE mortgage....20 years later, I can tell you that the sort of peace of mind that brings is worth much more than any trouble winter weather has ever brought me.

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

JEEEZ I love that! Thank you for sharing this - So many people get distracted by some of the things that a medium size city may lack and ignore all the amazing things that the area can offer. What a great testimony!

[@Fuff63]

Well said. I could not agree more.

[@tomsmith2013]

"Makes no difference where I go, you're the best hometown I know. Hello Rochester, HELLO ROCHESTER ... 13 loves you!" Third season in a row that I haven't fired up my snowblower. October/November are now the two best months of the year! Rochester is SO underrated. Low cost of living, great arts, sports, food festivals, RPO, The Fingerlakes, wineries, great colleges/universities, On and on.

[@Myself81565]

You forget to mention that Rochester has services for kid's with special needs. Mary cariola is a good school for kid's with special needs.

[@divinedelaware7541]

the AL sigl center also

[@nicholasm9470]

Attending RIT this fall as an incoming college freshman. I am looking forward to a new setting for years to come.

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

Awesome! Make sure you take advanatage of everything Rochester has to offer, There really is a lot going on here. Don't sit inside and do nothing all day. Get out and make good of it! Good Luck!

[@kesss97d]

I love Rochester

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

It’s really not as bad as many people believe it to be!!

[@user-wk4oi8in1z]

Cause y’all don’t live here🤣🤣😭😭

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

I live in the area. Which is why I make videos about it…

[@donjuan150]

@@user-wk4oi8in1z I moved away to the Adirondacks for barely a year and half. We could not wait to move back!! So much life and culture hear. Plus excellent medical. You you need to leave your little box and explore....

[@ingridphillip5367]

I just moved to Rochester New York 💕 God really have a sense of humor ❤ I prayed for Tampa Florida. In spite of the negative news. I am so grateful for the amazing experience. I see hurting souls as God’s special people. They are very kind once you get to know them. During my moving I fell on black ice. You talking neighborhood coming together.💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕🌻🌻🌻🌻🙏🙏🙏

[@Fuff63]

I love Rochester too.

[@joshuabatres182]

If you’re young and can live close to downtown, you could live car free between buses, walking and biking which is something I missed in San Antonio

[@joshuabatres182]

And the suburbs have side walks here 🎉

[@charlesbaldo]

@@joshuabatres182I live in the Rochester suburbs. The sidewalks are great for getting exercise, but not as a form of transportation. I lived in the downtown area and I could

[@unpointsword]

Why would you ever live car free? I prefer autonomy. As well as you're clearly not a leader in your family because i have to make sure I can get people to safety and move equipment...

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

@unpointsword I totally agree with you man!!

[@chrisransdell8110]

I agree with almost everything he said about weather here in Rochester. Summers are the payoff for the long cold winters. I'm consistently impressed with how WELL people deal with driving in all the snow. We get snow tires and I try to avoid heading out at rush hour on the very snowiest days but I have driven all the way from Victor to Greece on VERY snowy days when the road was entirely packed snow and had a totally easy relatively fast trip. But I'm not doing it at 8 am or 5 pm. One thing that surprised us is how often it is windy here.

[@KimS-57]

Rochester NY is land of the evictions on a scale from 0-10 they r 0

[@maximusthegreatest]

The summers in Rochester are humid and hot. The weather is the worst of both worlds. Moved here this year and was expecting Michigan summers, nope

[@rafael02130]

I'm from Boston and use to winter weather, I think I can handle lake effect snow. I'm tired of summer being so long now, I need extended cold weather.

[@ChrisfromGeorgia]

I never thought someone from Boston would want more cold weather. I'm in Georgia and it's extremely hot and humid for the majority of the year. Like yourself, I'm sick of the heat and want to live somewhere that is cold for the majority of the year. Take care👍

[@agioezio8338]

Sometimes we get heavy winters other times there will be almost no snow at all

[@tomconlon1182]

I love when the snow comes and cools off the ppl....

[@matts1351]

I saw my house on Rutgers st in the bottom left of the screen when you had the aerial shots of downtown from hovering above Park Ave. THAT is the best section of town to live in- in the city. Now I still ride my bike all over the entire city- even through the hoods. I’m not scared of what these news watching, car driving, cul-de-sac-living, youtube commenters say about crime or whatever. If you are not looking for, or participating in dangerous games, you’ll be just fine. If you move here to deal drugs or displace those who currently do, you should definitely watch yoback!

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

Haha I don’t watch the news, we don’t watch TV in our house - I do drive a car because I have a job that requires me to and I do other things that require a car? - but I don’t live in a cul de sac, and I’m not a KZbin commentator. I am a Realtor who creates content for people who are moving here. Before this is used to drive Lyft and Uber at night (7pm- 2am) in the “Bad area”, as well as around the city while I was trying to get my business up and running. I never called the “bad area” that, but the people getting in my car who lived there did. They all would tell me stories of nightly things that would happen. I’m not afraid of the bad areas of town. I am protected (and we’ll trained) everywhere that I go, even when I’m in an area that is super affluent. I don’t leave the house without my own protection. So I don’t necessarily fit into the category that you put me in. That said, I encourage my clients to live where ever they want to live. I will provide them links for crime maps so they can do their own research, because they ask me about the “safe parts”, to which I’m not allowed to answer. Most people, based on THEIR research choose to move to the areas you live in, if they’re drawn to the city life. If not they choose Irondequoit, Henrietta, Penfield, Fairport, Victor, Canandaigua. Additionally, I’d advise everyone to stay out of dealing drugs, or doing them, for obvious reasons. Appreciate the comment, Matt!

[@RJ-pb1qx]

Had to sub my man - you're the only person I see doing recent reporting of my hometown that I haven't seen since '96.

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

I appreciate the sub! Yeah no one else is really doing any videos in the area - what else would you like to see on the channel?

[@NoAnonymityPodcast]

I was born and raised in the ROC

[@vonflores6892]

CANT WAIT TO BE THERE IN GREECE

[@MichelePearl]

I want to go to Greece as well.

[@amiblack8294]

Lived in Greece for 25 years and it's not what it was at all. You can have it.

[@user-ij5zy6ok6o]

I lived in Rochester from 1973 to 1984. Graduated from Edison Tech. High School. Very safe middle class neighborhood. Kodak was still the big company in town. Joined the military and came back in 1986 to visit family. Rochester had turned into a complete shithole. My old neighborhood had been run over by slum lords, an 8 year old boy had been shot in a drive -by, and my father's house had been robbed while he was at work.

[@user-xm8bu1ln6t]

Wow Rochester is a beautiful city ❤

[@pamelaradcliff5977]

I Love the 4 seasons. What I don't like is all the heat. It's been very hot here this year.

[@BabyBugBug]

Rochester and the surrounding area are beautiful. Yes, neighborhoods in the city need to be fixed. Regardless, I think upstate New York in general is a hidden gem.

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

I agree with you!! Appreciate your comment 😎

[@rockyrococo2584]

Nailed ot with Rochester winters. If you like winter, its too much like 6 months of early wet spring. If you hate winter its just winter with more rain. Its awful because of how mild it has become in one direction or the other Over the past 20 years its become more and more unpredictable and impossible to plan around.

[@StickFiguresMaster]

I really loved living there in Rochester, Batavia, cause most of my family was born and raised there. The big differences you'd eventually start to notice about my birth state from the south is that, it's a a litter bug, money laundering and begging for, dangerous wild animals being reported on the news sites Stew. The amount of young adults being accepted and made into doctors and surgeons is insane because they have doctors that are misbehaving young adults that seem to reflect off of how middle school students behavior would compare with theres. I used to live in a neighborhood which was sadly realized by many to be one of the most rogue nieghborhoods in my birth state, mainly because there's medium level violence and crimes being committed (but uncommonly) by kids that age range from teenagers to something just near the 18 years old range. I felt bad for a mom that lived in a town that I used to live in because she was crying and screaming on the phone to the school board that she doesn't want her kid kicked of school, the boy she raises was specifically that a Latino teenager who used racial profanity at school one time because students were tricking him into using the n word in class, sadly.... this has been known for a while in my birth state, but it's sad cause their terms of service policies and guidelines are very thick, so he wasn't suspended but kicked out, to have to attend any other new school one day, so sadly his mom shouted go to your room to him and after she slammed the phone she was crying my life is ruined, cause she was trying to get him to graduate what was one of the schools last hopes for a good school he had left that there was that'd consider letting him be in them as last resorts, so... You can only imagine if one day, thanks to this awful family, poorly raising their kids, you could only imagine if they considered going to a differente state to have him be enrolled in. He's really not as bad as ever for a kid, I got to notice, but he was a fool for being subdued by young girls to do what they told him to do while they were where doing whats wrong, trying to get this family to die of giving them more bad reputations every time they had the chance to have him be given other areas chances, so they weren't even in love with him at all, but just winking at him girls who were only ever trying to trick him and other kids into being bad who act alone as though they'd ever be attracted to him and other boys :\ In Batavia and Rochester though, women being slightly more shirt opened are almost always told by 19th century laws lovers though, it's illegal until the day people they reinstate the celebration of cause otherwise if those days are done again, their back at it with saying their towns don't agree to let there by rights for nudists to be in Rochester or Batavia naked.

[@catbernstein8628]

Very honest! Thanks for the video.

[@zzunfiltered9602]

"You may want to have escape roots" 😄 ~Rochester NY

[@kylepatrick113]

Without even watching the video… yes

[@sararue2356]

❤❤❤❤❤ that you shared this

[@smartalic1994]

Lived in outskirts of city my whole life Recently moved more inside city Found out if you help certain people nearby such as some of the more respectable homeless with even giving them food (canned food) they will make sure your safe Actually had a banned from shelter beggar try to rush me and ask for money (way more than he really should) got inside my apartment and 3 guys that know me from helping out broke fingers and gave a lovely warning to find new area

[@smartalic1994]

In other words rochester is safe and even more so when you know people Just stay away from the avenues and 13th ward area at night

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

Haha jeez what a story! I can’t imagine most people will like that story 😂 but it always helps to know people! Also helps to be armed and trained 😜 Glad you have people on your side!

[@lukef5355]

Keep away from alphabet city boy 😂😂

[@johnruck]

yeah just stay out of the north side from east and north of the river east and to Irondequoit or anywhere the free needle 💉 or rock pipe handouts are > Just be smart > but this video is very truthful and all surrounding is really great PLUS greece webster Henrietta > People come from all over for these hospitals > love the music scene, Food and several of my best buddy’s have young families here and are all super safe and great fun !!

[@carolsmith3193]

Not enough sun and too humid. Crummy weather makes people mean spirited.

[@sararue2356]

Pack of smokes around $10 a pack.. reservation is about an hour drive

[@micheller6804]

You mentioned some very good things about Rochester, however we have a higher per capita murder rate than NYC. Also, public schools in the city are generally very low-performing. I worked at East High for two years, and the last week I worked there, three staff members were assaulted by students.

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

Yes you’re 10000% correct! I stay away from things like that because I know great people like you will say them! I can get in a lot of trouble if I’m not careful about what I say so I’m making these videos I rely on good people like you to say the parts that I can’t say lol. Thank you for this, great info!!

[@Tagerine22]

That’s why I don’t go in the city! It’s really the only dangerous part of Rochester

[@moisesagramonte1790]

Thanks. Excellent video.

[@lizzabbott]

Also for the section in video where you covered outdoors, remember Letchworth. And for higher ed , there is also Eastman School of Music. Where are you from originally ?

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

Yes thank you! I’m born and Raised in Canandaigua

[@theindiespotlightphilly]

What about races and ethnicities and the police department I wish you would have covered those as well videos very informative

[@paulcarpenter7844]

The thing about Rochester's everybody's always on edge it seems like and when you're going through it that's when the problems come 😔

[@ivannevarez3229]

I’m heading to Rochester ny next week ! I hear ppl say it’s bad but I feel like it’s everywhere in general ( there’s just bad parts ) and I mind my business a lot so I know I’ll be good 💀

[@ivannevarez3229]

I’m coming from El Paso ^

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

Hey Ivan! We’ll be happy to welcome you! Shoot me a text, I’d be happy to help any way possible!

[@ivannevarez3229]

@@Livingflxandrochesterny yeah man ! The number on your discription, is that it ?

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

Yessir!

[@paulcarpenter7844]

Just don't go into the hoods for no apparent reason you are alright

[@RedMistNinja]

I am a Rochester NY native and work full time and can just barely afford to pay bills. NY has the highest taxes in the country also the crime is out of control in the city now. Especially violent crime. Most employers pay around minimum wage here. Move somewhere else to be paid decently and not be taxed into poverty by the state.

[@michaelo3832]

So sorry to hear this.

[@JRN007]

Great video. Thank you!

[@kevindavisfuller6154]

I live in Rochester

[@joesmith7427]

I remember 50yrs ago when Greece,NY which is mostlyJewish, paid 12-15,000 per yr school taxes!!

[@mercedesmurray4990]

The background music is too loud terrible and distracting. It sounds like a 2 year old on a piano I live in Rochester. Love the seasons, the parks but other than that it sucks

[@dkm4567]

Wrong, it all sucks

[@dropz9071]

Hater town No down town And a bunch of angry folks Just my honest opinion From my weekend visit Oh i did enjoy the garbage plate And country sweet

[@ROC-585]

Wow, didn't think you'd form that opinion about us in basically 3 days 😂

[@ChiefMacio]

Should of put Boss sauce on dat plate 😂

[@sararue2356]

Don't compare Rochester to So Cal because two totally different areas

[@CollDott]

Lilacs festival!!😂😂😂and there were murders in one of those trails!!! Spooky!! And delicious chicken fingers in Canton house!!😅😅😅oh yay farmers market!!!

[@csiple2]

Welcome back!

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

Haha Thanks! Just went on a short family vacay so I decided to hold off on posting for the week!

[@user-km4gm6kb6s]

I was there yesterday and its really bad a allot of drug addicts in the streets such a shame because it's a such beautiful city with allot of potential this really was turn off for me seen all of this drug addicts and crazy people in the streets.

[@sararue2356]

Canadaguia Academy ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Victor Highschool ⭐ Churchville chilli⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@user-km4gm6kb6s]

Do you know how many days does it take to rent an apartment in Rochester or to sell a home usually how many days would it take a real estate company in Rochester to rent or sale a home on average?

[@Eddie-rm4xc]

I was born and raised there! Rochesterians stand stand by, while children are turned out onto the streets as prostitutes and drug addicts!

[@Krazee4honda]

Lived in the greater Rochester area my entire life. This area USED to be a great place to live and grow up around…not anymore. Crime is through the roof, taxes are skyrocketing, education system is in the toilet, laws are out of control, businesses shutting down etc etc. Wear a bulletproof vest and don’t bring cash if you want to attend the downtown festivals. Can’t get out of this shit hole fast enough.

[@penroc3]

Hi from penfield

[@fubo1959]

Just to correct your misinformation, Rochester averages 9 inches MORE snow per year than Buffalo according to the US National Weather Service

[@ATL_Transparency_News]

i dont know what your talking about. oct 31 i remember snow and 10 below. i also remember 3 foot of snow the lowest amount of sunlight to the point the lake gets overrun with alge, murder capital drugs dead city.... omg rochester is a pit of chemicals

[@phild8238]

I grew up in some sketchy parts of Rochester and you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

[@josephle2155]

How many funerals you go to this month??

[@EntertainingEconomistLLC]

What is the safest area for family with teens/adults with high walkability? I am looking to relocate from Syracuse.

[@user-ij5zy6ok6o]

Wyoming!!!😂

[@joesmith7427]

YES its really that bad!! Your pit bull will love it,since everyone on the street has one! Do u speak spanish? It would help if u do! I wish i could! It use to be italian years ago! Snow- u bet!! Recently, Lake Ontario did NOT freeze!! You are across from Toronto! Property taxes are killer in NYS!! Its a great place but most of the high paying jobs are gone and so are the people!!

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

Appreciate the input, Joe.

[@cabalogia]

Pothole city U.S.A

[@joesmith7427]

Once Kodak closed, Rochester went down the tubes!

[@penroc3]

also i assume you are or were military, what flag is behind you? I know thats not an American flag, what country is that from?

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

Yes I was in the Marine Corps - and the wooden one in the right of the screen is the American Flag (obviously), and the one hanging on the wall is the Buffalo Bills flag

[@farid-game]

23:54 Which areas are happening?

[@MichelePearl]

What about Greece NY

[@mrs.walton9251]

I lived Greece all my life

[@briannaw716]

Greece is a great area, I currently reside there now.

[@m.m9136]

I prefer it over the eastside suburbs

[@srijankhadka8231]

I was thier

[@robertcampbell9992]

I grew up off brown street, left at 17, that area is a shit hole!

[@grisellmarin5944]

St. Fisher now is university

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

oh wow youre right! Thats been a year since they made that change - I guess I didn't realize that actually happened. I remember hearing about it, but I didnt realize that they already did the name change. Thanks for the correction!

[@joesmith7427]

Kodak?bausch&Lomb? Ganett? Xerox? Poleriod? Taylor instruments? Nope!!

[@pamelataggart2988]

I live in Rochester NY and I hate it!!!!

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

I’m sorry you hate it here, it’s certainly not for everyone! If you ever wanted to move somewhere else, I’d be happy to help! 😊

[@thisshitstupid]

Same.

[@Prince_vick_3994]

bro i live in rochester i know everything

[@PoopLordAlmighty]

I’m from irondequoit, idk man, it was nicer growing up but now all I hear from my grandparents that still live there is it’s a shit hole and the crime is getting worse. Rochester is the type of place people are born and die in. Nobody moves to Rochester, unless they’re just clueless.

[@PoopLordAlmighty]

I wanna be fair, I’m talking specifically about the part I’m from. There are areas that are beautiful, I should mention that. Outside of irondequoit and the city.

[@glenarseneau1231]

How’s the crime rate

[@mrs.walton9251]

Atlanta has high crime rate

[@andreadistefano1759]

high.

[@jenithursdaymiller6677]

What are those "pockets" of bad areas?

[@housseinahmed6240]

The east side and west side area very bad. Hudson Clinton Portland Clifford Goodman etc for the east and Dewey Lyell genesee chili for the west.

[@joesmith7427]

Tell us who the major employers are??? Tell us the median income$ ??

[@livingonedgeslots]

bruh its been gray damn near the whole year

[@alhdafe]

It’s a great city

[@InterviewInterrogations]

That just isn’t true

[@mrs.walton9251]

​@@InterviewInterrogationsmoved to Atlanta and deal with traffic,bad food, unpleasant people and low paying jobs,etc....then you will love home.. Rochester😊.I'm paying 1800 for rent

[@dantrapp2464]

Consider the taxes . Right thru the roof . My whole family is from here . State of New York gouges everyone just to pay for New York City . Crime out of control 5th in the Country for murder . Your music is nauseous.

[@jtheoriginal9775]

How many people remember The Original???¿¿ HUH???!!!

[@joesmith7427]

Mormons started in Palmyra, Ny Jehovah witness started in Rocester and the annual convention is in Rochester EVERY YEAR!! 7TH DAY ADVENTIST STARTED IN ROCESTER! THIS IS NOT THE DOWN RENT DUSTRICT OF NYS!!

[@livinglargecoachingcounseling]

The music is very ANNOYING!!!!!

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

@@livinglargecoachingcounseling I appreciate the feedback - for now, I hope you can get through the music and into the information utilizing some of the skills I’d imagine you teach your patients and clients as a coach.

[@lukef5355]

My boys didn’t even bring up alphabet city

[@dontneednomanstoptelllingm8481]

Me

[@FireWallthefts]

Meth problem in Rochester NY

[@ecmc6197]

Don't move to Rochester. Move to Buffalo instead

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

The city of friendly neighbors! I’d love To help with that too, Buffalo is awesome! Go Bills!

[@ScorpioPheonixRising]

Inconsistent weather, murders and rich white families swimming at the lake while the haters and remote foodies are having a good time. Is there a healing and hope scene? More unity and love could make Rochester better for humans who want to live there and enjoy gorgeous Fall days and bright Seasons. ☮️ Is there skiing near by?

[@ROC-585]

Lol I think your version is incorrect. "Rich white people swimming at the lake while everyone else gets murdered" is what you basically just said. Do you live here?

[@charlesharris8763]

Rochester sucks, highly recommend not living here!

[@KINGONE6XIV]

Literally

[@thisshitstupid]

Literally.

[@mrfudd13]

Ra -CHEST-ter.

[@joesmith7427]

George Eastman was gay! He awoke to the sound of organ music every morning! His man played the organ! He committed suicide, he said what more is left for him to do in life!! That was the part they dont tell u about!!

[@ROC-585]

😂😂 all your comments basically shitting on the city and surrounding suburbs are full of hate! Why still live here? Wait - I'm going to take a wild guess here. You live in the town of Greece? 🤔🫣

[@donjuan150]

You need to chill....

[@Libar-u1o]

Rochester cheap to buy a home compared to California

[@jessegomes6366]

Ok so Rochester is definitely dangerous in areas but it definitely Is NOT 2nd worst in the country murder rate wise. Top 20 yea. Look at Baltimore and cities like that 2nd to Chicago

[@Livingflxandrochesterny]

I appreciate your comment! Yeah I agree with you - For a long time Rochester was comparable to Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, St louis and LA on a per capita basis. The past year or so that hasnt been the case, however, recently things have been popping off full swing.

[@brandenpalarz905]

In 2022 Rochester had the highest murder rate in the country for cities under 250,000 people. In 2023 it was 6th in the nation for homicide per capita. It’s slowly getting better as it used to be worse than Chicago

[@jessegomes6366]

@brandenpalarz905 It was never worse than cities like Baton rouge Louisiana or Baltimore/Camden NJ Etc etc. I know it saw 82 homicides in 2022. But not on the same level as those cities man.. Also Newburgh ny per capita is the worst in NY with only about 27 thousand ppl

[@handytbutler7380]

It’s great if you are a criminal, love crappy weather and just want to hang out inside. Crime is through the roof and yes you can get a house cheap but you will spend a fortune fortifying it to protect your stuff. Weather is weather, some bad some good.

[@My-odisha]

Wanted PG with decent American