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Hmm, maybe we should have gone with something more useful...like a free vocational school w/on-site free/low cost daycare and perhaps a primary school? I'm finding the biggest issue with people changing careers is doing so while taking care of kids. Enough free space, and it'd seem like something society would go for...then again, say "tax" and 1/2 the population turns off instantly.

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Maybe that guy from Utah who wants to build a utopian city in Vermont could be persuaded to consider upstate New York instead?

Not likely near lake placid. Many land uses within the Adirondacks require a constitutional amendment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Preserve_%28New_York%29...

Much of central and western new york has a similarly depressed economy without quite that level of regulatory burden. So there's plenty more of upstate to choose from.

There's not enough demand for something like that in this area. As the article states, Lake Placid is basically in the middle of nowhere.

You could always make it a live-in vocational school :). I thought they had more people..you're totally right, population of around 2k. Total county population might, but would be a long commute.

North Country Community College in nearby Saranac Lake basically has that market covered, and there are fewer than 40,000 people in all of Essex county. People tend to underestimate how rural things really are up here since we're in "New York". It's a beautiful place to live, but it's also very conservative, not very diverse, and reliant on a few very temperamental economic sectors like tourism.

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