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.
Hey now! The What answered me! I feel kind of special.
I hear you cobblehiller, and no one (certainly not me) is arguing that Buffalo has the cheese, Indian food, medical care, etc that Brooklyn, and the larger NYC area, does. But here’s the thing. I can’t really afford to eat out, or to buy the 40 kinds of fancy cheese, and honestly, sometimes it’s a struggle to pay the co-pays for the medical care my insurance covers. And I think that’s sort of what we’re talking about here — alternatives.
And I like the red house too.
i’m 44, grew up in bensonhurst and lived in buffalo for 4 years while attending ub in the 80s. the winters are not for the meek. they are long and depressing.
“Notice the Pretenous Smugfuck Asshats Biff, 11217 and 1842. Buffalo is a beautiful city and is close to Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto and Montreal.”
DOWhat, we didn’t forget that it was you who took great pleasure in posting the link to a montage showing how horrifically beaten down Detroit has become. You’ve set a new standard in hypocrisy.
By the way, how many days until doomsday? Do you remember or do you want me to remind you? Just a bit scared are you to answer this question?
“To the poster who has friends who are leaving Buffalo — where are they going?”
They move to Asshat Hill and pay 1700.00 a month for a studio on Jefferson and Patchen. They they moan and bitch because there are no amenities in the neighborhood!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
It’s a bazillion miles from NYC. There are no jobs. It is cold and they get A TON of snow – doesn’t anyone remember the photos of the dumps they got last winter? I know 6 people that lived there – they left. Can you get 50 kinds of blue cheese there? Can you get really good Indian food there? You have to own a car. It’s too far from NYC. Who knows what the medical care situation might be, and and and I don’t care what anyone says it’s still not, ain’t never gonna be, as cool or as interesting as BROOKLYN!
That said…I like the red house.
I actually found the Oswego area to be truly a soul-sucker, 11217. But I liked Rochester a lot, and Syracuse, and found Buffalo had a certain, not charm exactly, but interesting character.
When I was in college in Oswego there were actually “wind alert” days, where you were advised to stay in if you weighed under 110 pounds. The fear was that the wind off the lake would do you some serious harm. Nice sunsets. Terrible mosquitoes.
Be careful tybur6. The Asshats will say you are part of The What dust-up.
Knickerbocker well said. Buffalo have nice houses. The only problem is income. America is becoming a one trick bitch. Just “flipping” thinks to each other.
Notice the Pretenous Smugfuck Asshats Biff, 11217 and 1842. Buffalo is a beautiful city and is close to Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto and Montreal. The housing stock there is fantastic! Most of the “New” New Yorkers came from these places!
Most of you fucking dudes are POSERS and I will be glad when you leave..
Merrill, Wachovia Hit With Record Refinancing Bill
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20602007&sid=a7snTaUmiwnw&refer=govt_bonds
“The gears of capitalism are grinding to a halt,” said Mirko Mikelic, senior bond fund manager at Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Fifth Third Asset Management, which oversees $21 billion in assets. “There is a tremendous concern over the banking sector and a scramble right now for capital.”
Don’t bother to read this….
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
11217, I think part of what is so sad about it is that it used to be such a thriving place. It might not quite be as bad as downtown Detroit, which I haven’t been to in some time now, but it is absolutely remarkable to see the contrast when driving through all of the potholes and decrepit buildings to the border and then eventually into downtown Toronto, which looks like the Emerald City by comparison.
Actually… I take back my qualification. I’d have to say 33% in 1900 would constitute few owners vs. vast majority renters. And New York not crossing the 50% mark until the 1980s would suggest “recent phenomenon” to me. And NATION-WIDE it wasn’t until the mid-40s sometime. Also… pretty recent if you ask me. (We’ve been around as a country since the late 1700s if you remember and for a few more years as Brits and Dutch and French before that… I don’t think the native Americans had a real estate market back then.)