10 Best Places to Live in New York if You Hate Crowds

THE AFFORDABLE NEW YORK GUIDE + EXPENSE TRACKER https://ko-fi.com/s/5f0087ca5a New York City has eight million people. The rest of the state has mountains, lakes, and small towns where the biggest traffic jam is a tractor on a two-lane road. This video counts down ten of the best places to live in New York if you hate crowds — from East Aurora, a village near Buffalo where a five-and-ten-cent store has been open since nineteen thirty, to Long Lake, a town of under eight hundred people in Hamilton County, the least populated county east of the Mississippi River, where the Milky Way is bright enough to cast a shadow. Along the way we visit an arts hamlet of five hundred people with its own film festival and opera company, a village on a Finger Lakes lake restored by the founder of the American Girl doll, and a town in the High Peaks where fifteen of New York's tallest mountains are shared by eleven hundred residents. The entries are East Aurora, Cape Vincent, Narrowsburg, Aurora, Saugerties, Cooperstown, Garrison, Saranac Lake, Keene and Keene Valley, and Long Lake. #NewYorkState #SmallTownLiving #UpstateNewYork #Adirondacks #FingerLakes #HudsonValley #LongLake #KeeneValley #SaranacLake #Cooperstown #QuietLiving #EscapeTheCrowds #RuralNewYork #BestPlacesToLive #SmallTownLife