Hey! We live in Rochester (and have a 15 month-old). It's a great, and cheap, place to raise a family. $60k might be a bit optimistic for a house, but you could easily do $80k if you are willing to live in the city (potentially shitty schools) and don't care a lot about walking to shopping/library/parks/etc. I'd look in the 19th Ward and the Culver-Winton-Main area for good combos of pretty safe and family-oriented but cheap neighborhoods. We live in the Highland Park/South Wedge area, which is lovely, but a bit more - probably at least $100k for a 3 bedroom in decent condition.
Schools are the crapshoot, though. The suburbs would be more expensive. We bought in the city and will be applying to some of the good citywide schools/programs as well as charter schools. If that doesn't work out, we will move to Brighton while our daughter is in school, where our mortgage and property taxes will be much higher.
And ditto on the bad job market. My husband has not had luck searching here; luckily, he's been able to work remotely for his West Coast firm. He is in a high-demand field, so I'm pretty sure he could find *something*, but he hasn't been able to find anything as interesting (or nearly as well paid) as his remote position.
If you don't mind saying, at least in general terms, what is your current field and what field are you looking to switch to?