Driving around Cortland disgusts me, the people, the buildings, and the obvious drug activity. My grandpa always tells us stories about what Cortland used to look like, what businesses they use to have, and I have seen many pictures, what happened to that?! Oh maybe because in the subways in NYC there is graffiti that reads "if you are looking for easy welfare go to Cortland." My dad's friend lives down there and he told us about that, what a shame. That is so embarrassing and with welfare comes drugs and with drugs comes crime, everything we do not need. I think welfare needs to be harder to get and you can only be on it for a certain time, then you need to be able to support yourself. If Cortland was safer, cleaner, and had more to offer maybe I would stay here, but it doesn't. Homer is getting just as bad, if you get expelled from Cortland you get shipped to Homer, you moving to Homer isn't going to make you change your ways. You come here and you give it a bad rep, get expelled here, and move on to the next town, what a life. Homer is just as druggy, maybe not as noticeable but we have it, so wake up people, make a difference in the town! Instead of being so dang concerned about no hydrofracking how about cutting down on crime and welfare focus on that then go to hydrofracking. I am sure that many towns are full of drug activity but with all the bath salt weirdness and people eating other people, I hope people in Homer don't have that yet because next thing you know we will be making the news in a bad way, wouldn't want that.
Another thing is food, in Cortland and Homer all we have to offer is pizza, pizza, and oh wait pizza. Some ice cream, Chinese, and more pizza. We need variety, some hot dog and hamburger places local, and just variety. I have to go Syracuse just to get a good meal, that's no fun traveling all the way up there. We need things to do all we have is bowling, mini golf, and a crappy movie theater. Most people go to Ithaca or Syracuse just to see a movie, pathetic. I don't really have any ideas of what to add to make Cortland more fun but people seem to fill their boredness with parties full of drinking and drugs, what ever floats their boat. Maybe if there was more to do that would be reduced a little or maybe not because that's what they choose to do so they would probably always do that.
Isn't it a shame that such a nice, scenic area is turning pretty crappy, pretty fast? What are Cortland and Homer doing to make people want to move here, or to make young people want to stay here? It is depressing, and I hope it doesn't become too crappy since I will have three kids in the district soon.
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