Can't Cut It In Brooklyn? Try Buffalo.
Want a three-bedroom apartment on the park with front and back porches, an office and stained glass windows for $795? Try Buffalo. New York Magazine has the tale of a Brooklyn couple who decided to forsake their $1,300-a-month Sunset Park pad for bigger and better digs on New York State’s western frontier. Several ex-New Yorkers…
Want a three-bedroom apartment on the park with front and back porches, an office and stained glass windows for $795? Try Buffalo. New York Magazine has the tale of a Brooklyn couple who decided to forsake their $1,300-a-month Sunset Park pad for bigger and better digs on New York State’s western frontier. Several ex-New Yorkers wax philosophical about their post-NYC lives, too. I don’t miss my old life in New York,” one says. “I only miss the life in New York I know I never would have had.
Where the Urban Dream Life Is Going Cheap [NY Mag]
Buffalo Neighborhood. Photo by jeffk42.
Well, What, as usual you have some points to make. Interesting list you pulled out there.
The apoplectic part is just hilarious! Cracks me up – sorry!
Hey, where’s Ozymandius today?!
What…
If all the posters here are asshats why do you care so much what they think, say or do?
You spend a lot of time and effort on these people that you clearly seems to think aren’t worth it.
Now matter if I agree or disagree with you I just think you’re not doing your health any favors by getting this worked up.
Turn off the computer, take a walk and try to stop and smell the daisies!
I’m totally not trying to be sarcastic either, I’m concerned that you’re hurting yourself more than you’re hurting them.
Best,
THL
DOW-Twat–you are the only one here with a hate agenda. A real estate blog, while admittedly not the most intellectually or socially redeeming location on the internet, is not founded on a hate agenda. A renovation agenda maybe, a market value discussion agenda perhaps, but hate agenda? Nope. People who want to live in Brooklyn come to this site to try to discuss the ins and outs of the insanity that is the NYC real estate market. You, and your various sock-puppets, come here to sow discontent, fear and paranoia.
The pot and the kettle have a combined IQ and sensitivity double yours.
As a former Buffalonian, who sometimes considers moving back, I must come to the area’s defense. Buffalo has the University of Buffalo and several other colleges, so there is an intellectual life. Also a top cancer research hospital (Roswell Park) and plenty of other good hospitals, quality museums, a thriving performing arts scene (including nationally acclaimed Studio Arena Theater). It has NY-quality restaurants, especially near UB and Amherst (where I’m from) and gourmet food shops that I am pretty sure have 50 types of cheese, or close to. The winters are long, granted, and there’s tons of snow, but I never minded as log as I could do a winter sport. Good skiing at Holiday Valley, cross country and ice skating also available. Lake Erie is a great resource, the surrounding countryside is lovely and there is lots of great architecture and beautiful, affordable houses in areas like Delaware Park. That said, good jobs are few and far between, parts of the city look like a bomb hit it, and migration is mostly out, not in. Still, many, many Buffalonians really, really love Buffalo, so there is a loyal core. I could definitely see living there, sure it’s not Brooklyn, but it is also not nothing.
One more thing–Buffalo has beef on weck sandwiches, which really are worth moving back for.
I don’t know about Buffalo, but I love Rochester. We’re flying up there this weekend. I would seriously consider moving there eventually. I never thought I liked small cities, and usually I don’t. I always thought it would either be a huge city or the middle of nowhere in the country for me, but Rochester is really accessible, has a thriving arts community and a number of schools, and is beautiful. Oh and the garbage plate.
As for the “no jobs” angle… I have a friend who is a department manager for a major bank in Manhattan. Most of his department recently got outsourced – wait for it – to BUFFALO!
I suspect we will see more and more outsourcing of jobs away from NYC, particularly in the financial services sector, in the coming years.
the tWhats getting apoplectic. His nonsense is even more imcomprensible than ever: “The pot calling the kettle black? See asshole I’m not afraid to type this.”
Not afraid to type it? What the hell does that mean?
Is that why his spelling, grammar and general life knowledge is so diabolically poor – because he’s afraid of the keyboard?
Or could he be so monumentally stupid and race-monomaniacal that he thinks that the saying actually has something to do with race?
Hey cobblehiller, I wasn’t trying to recruit you or anything. I’m just trying to figure out what the heck to do. For myself. Not for you. As a fellow member of the thermo cup-toting class I say: Eat your occasional cheese and be happy!
Jingle mail — My parents and my husband’s parents are both here in the Northeast (my folks in Hartsdale and his in CT). Neither one of us is an artist, dancer, actor, journalist or hedge fund manager. We’ve only just recently have decided that we need to “do something,” so we’re very much at the start of figuring out what the something might be. I’ve been to Portland (Oregon) and love it, but I gather it too is getting pricey. Onwards. Thanks for the feedback.
hate-agenda? hate-agenda? this fucking blog is a hate-agenda, assfuck!!!!
The forerunner of covert race/class warfare, BROWNSTONER!
Lets look at some examples, shall we.
This blog is “suppose to be about Brownstones but we get shit like:
Homeless Black woman (wink wink) shitting on a stoop.
Marauding teenagers (young black animals win wink)
Long time residents selling drugs (in front of their houses wink wink)
Posting false accusations about Police being paid-off (wink wink)
Smugfuck feasts about how Asshat hill is better that everyone else
Regutation of bullshit assed race cover stores (Homeless Shelter)
And other bullfuckingshit that I forgot.
The pot calling the kettle black? See asshole I’m not afraid to type this.
The What (Still fuck all of you)
Someday this war is gonna end…