binghamton

Once booming model industrial city in the 1950's and 60's which, like many cities in New York State not supported by the capital generated by NYC, has seen a mass exodus of businesses and large-scale population loss. Where people from NYC and Long Island send their children to attend college if they didn't get into the Ivy League University of their choice. Many of these individuals will then spend the entirety of their next four years either on campus, on the Vestal Parkway, or on State Street, from which they will draw vastly overgeneralized conclusions and constantly gripe about how shitty Binghamton is, as they walk around with a false sense of entitlement. Where people from Deposit, Windsor, Kirkwood, etc go when they want to experience "The Big City", which entails dad getting gussied up in his "dress camo" and Dale Sr. hat and taking the family out to a fancy dinner at Ruby Tuesdays. This is one of the two sub-groups of people from which the ego-maniacal L.I. SUNY student will draw his opinion of Binghamton writ large. See also: Walmart. Binghamton is also inhabited by the townie, who has been bred, since birth, to bitch about being stuck in Binghamton (while making no attempt to leave), despise the unwarranted elitism of the SUNY student, and abuse drugs and alcohol. The average townie can outdrink most people, and probably has "a guy" if you need to cop some blow. Growing up Gotti wanna-be's with blowouts and unbuttoned dress shirts with no undershirt, State Street sluters wearing tube tops and mini-skirts in the middle of January, cokeheads, overt racists, J.A.P.S., faggot frat boys, unfulfilled potential, boarded-up store fronts. Beautiful weather from May through October, Lots of good folks who will be bigger than the town they were born in, Basketball outside during the summer, Bar-hopping during the summer when there's no SUNY crowd, proximity to Syracuse and NYC.