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.
Just tried to go on buffalorising. The server is crashed. Guess there is some interest.
I grew up in the Bronx and Westchester and went to school in upper NY State (I was near Rochester and had friends near Buffalo and Syracuse). I had a good time up there in the hinterlands, and really can understand the attraction of moving to a place that is on the upswing, where you could maybe be part of a renaissance. The NY I came home to after college is vastly different from the NY I’m living in now, for better and for worse, and I admit that my husband and I are struggling and trying to figure out what’s best for us and our 3-year-old. We rent, we missed the run up because we weren’t in a position to buy when the getting was good, now we’re completely priced out, even rents are prohibitively high (if we ever want to do anything like take a vacation or enjoy the city) and we’re…flummoxed, I guess. I read this article last night and I have to say, it really got me where I live. We’re smarter now, more practical, and right in the middle (that middle class that is shrinking). Too rich for help, too poor to really live here in the city anymore.
So I don’t know. Maybe not Buffalo. But somewhere.
To the poster who has friends who are leaving Buffalo — where are they going?
I agree with you, Biff.
Having visited every state in the lower 48 and many, many cities I can say with relative certainty that I find Buffalo one of the most depressing.
Hey 11217, here’s the U.S. Census Bureau.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/census/historic/owner.html
Few vs. vast majority may have been slight hyperbole, but it’s not patently false as you say.
Buffalo and Toronto have almost identical average monthly temperatures, but, Buffalo often feels much colder due to the lake effect snow and wind off Lake Erie, which is much worse than the effect of Lake Ontario on Toronto. Just sayin’. And I wouldn’t live in a mansion for free in Buffalo. It’s one of the most depressing places in North America.
Buffalo’s median home price is $60,000 according to the article, Suburban Dude.
Very well said 1842.
Most of the old timers I know in my neighborhood are old, racist, filled with hate and wouldn’t know Bach from a Budweiser.
The new people are what keep this city alive.
Well said “Knickerbocker”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“The housing economy was always a few owners and the vast majority renters.”
This statement is false. The U.S. has always had a home ownership rate of about 50-60% or more. Now I think it stands at 66%.
In NYC it is lower (more like 40%), but the U.S. has always had more homeowners than renters.
Knickerbocker, my family came to NYC many decades before yours did and I find your comments parochial and foolish. The “transplants” are what make this city dynamic and a magnet for industry, culture and the arts. If all of these “transplants” stopped coming here, NYC would quickly decline in vibrancy and importance.