Ithaca, New York 📍

For decades there was a debate on how to untangle the mess of roads known as the Ithaca Octopus where NY 79, NY 89, NY 96 and NY 13A all came together in a 8-legged intersection known for traffic jams and crashes. Ultimately, they settled on a plan that split up each of those roads into three separate bridges constructed in the late 1990s

https://www.tompkinsweekly.com/articles/on-past-kerfuffles-including-the-octopus/

Ithaca might be ten square miles surrounded by reality but certainly buying a house in East Ithaca will set you back some big cash compared to some of the rundown farmsteads not that far away from the city with the Ivy League college.