no one upstate or in WNY has a NYC accent or even talks like that
they got their own accents in buffalo, syracuse and rochester and it sounds more like chicago accent than NYC. those cities are much more like chicago or detroit than NYC. nothing is like NYC anywhere in the country, cant compare the boros to anywhere. staten island has a WNY feel i guess, if you had to compare. lotta italians and bullshyt.
idk much about Syracuse, but i used to be in buffalo and rochester a little bit en route to canada. canada is right there. shyt you used to be able to walk across the border, no passport. sometimes going IN to Can they wouldnt even ID you at all but this was a long time ago.
i havent been up in a while, but both cities are much better places to live versus 10-20 years ago. easy places to buy property and run a business, and people got hip to that. theres a little resurgence going on up there. the weather anywhere along the lakes is miserable though. lotta good music coming out of that area of the state too