It isn't so much the distance - Toronto must be about the same and it seems close to Ottawa. It's the barriers: political (i.e., there's the Canada/US border), the difficulty of crossing the St. Lawrence (you have to go over one of only a few bridges, or find a bus that goes that way via Toronto, or take a train from Montreal), the cultural ties (I don't know anyone from Albany, or anyone with family in Albany, or anything remotely like that), and the incentive (why would a person want to go to Albany?)
As a matter of fact, I have been to Albany, for a science fiction convention. And I had a good time. But it certainly didn't seem close in any way. I might as well have been in Seattle or Madison, culturally speaking.
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Date: 2009-04-06 09:02 pm (UTC)As a matter of fact, I have been to Albany, for a science fiction convention. And I had a good time. But it certainly didn't seem close in any way. I might as well have been in Seattle or Madison, culturally speaking.