Utica, New York wants you. Badly.
The Mohawk Valley city has quietly become one of the most affordable places to buy a home anywhere in the state, with median values ranging from roughly $87,000 to $157,000 depending on the neighborhood, according to multiple market trackers. Rents start as low as $900 a month. Overall cost of living runs about 28 to 33 percent below the New York state average.
For a New Yorker priced out of literally everything, that sounds like a fantasy. So why does the population keep shrinking?…