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Originally Posted by TempleGuy1000
Well SE PA subsidizes the rest of the state and we get shit funding for SEPTA in return so there is that  and Philly isn't the Godzilla NYC is in state politics already.
Moving the Capitol from Harrisburg to say State College would not make much of a difference IMO. |
I'm pretty sure NYC subsidizes NYS way more than SE PA subsidizes the rest of Pennsylvania.
That said, I don't think the location of the NY capital has helped upstate NY's situation at all. Upstate NY experienced pretty much the worst economic declines of any region in U.S. history except the post-Antebellum South. Upstate NY would be in the same situation it is today whether the capital was in NYC, Albany, or Buffalo*.
*Btw, Albany is twice as far from Buffalo as it is from NYC, so the capital isn't exactly centrally located today, nor was it ever intended to be.