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[QUOTE="upstater, post: 667416, member: 153"]
The big difference is in per capita income. There are enough people here to make it interesting, but this is a poor area (relatively). Between Buffalo/Niagara Falls/Rochester, there are 2.3m people. When you consider that these towns are 1 hour away by car, that's not an insignificant amount of people to live within an hour of one another. Culturally, the west side of the Niagara River in Ontario has little interest in Buffalo other than shopping, though the Bills get 20% of their season ticket holders from there, but businesswise, an hour's drive from Buffalo brings you to Hamilton and another million or so. One hour and a half gets you Toronto.
 
This region is actually a lot more compact and populated than any other in NY State other than NYC, and that includes the Capital District and Hudson Valley.
 
I am absolutely not making any argument for their athletics or TV market. Personally, I think they should join the B1G for D1 hockey. They would take over rather quickly.
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