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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • Angie Schmitt, who wrote this article, and mentioned Ithaca, NY has clearly never visited or lived in Ithaca, NY. While Ithaca itself has a vibrant downtown, is pretty walkable, and has a really great food co-op, it is a high cost of living area. Aside from it being a very expensive college town, it’s situated on one of the great lakes, so it’s also a tourist town, which also drives up the cost of housing/living. As a result, most of the people that actually work in Ithaca end up living several towns over in what is essentially farm communities. No sidewalks, no shoulders, speed limit 55, and an incredibly dangerous place to be a pedestrian. If you want to do anything you have no choice but to drive 15-30 minutes to get to fun things, or to shop. There are many places with the same problem, small vibrant cities with great downtown’s and super unaffordable housing that pushes the rest of us out into the stix with no choice but to drive.












  • For those not in the know, covenant house is a homeless shelter for kids based in NYC. They house homeless children up to age 21. I emancipated myself when I was 16 and started college. Stupid me didn’t realize that the dorms closed during Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other holidays. Going back home for the holidays was out of the question because my mother let my rapist back into the house to live with her, (the reason why I emancipated myself in the first place.) I spent every holiday my freshman year of college at covenant house. I slept on a mat in a room with a bunch of other kids, but it was better than being on the streets and I didn’t go hungry. I learned my lesson after that year and rented a room sophomore-senior instead of deciding to live in dorm housing. For anyone that knows any homeless children that need help, they have a crisis line called the 9 line. 1-800-999-9999.