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.
what is up with the hostility??!! the article at no point insults NYC–simply states facts and shows that there are alternatives out there, and that people who make the change from NYC to other areas, in this case buffalo, have lives in their new city or town — better for them than before. different strokes for different folks people!
as a native brooklyn-er and die-hard ny’er, even I think about leaving, for many of the reasons stated in the article. and know what…many of my friends have left…and their lives are better for it. they have jobs, they have friends, they go out to restaurants and cultural events…there is life outside NY. It’s this belief by people in NY that there is no other option or cool places that makes me consider locating to a more tranquil city.
Hey, “I Haz”:
Check out Columbus, Ohio…SERIOUSLY.
I think of us as an enormous Rat King, myself. Entangled tales- er- tails.
It’s the What’s fault. If I hadn’t been testing his cut and paste technique it never would have happened.
historically, in both chicago where i lived a million years ago and here in NY, seen italian/polish neighborhoods gentrify to upper middle class/lower upper or whatever.. guess i’m saying folks with a 120-300 income range move “into those hoods and live safely over and over again. specifically cobble hill/carroll gardens/west, middle slope, north williamsburg, greenpoint, yadda.
“i define ghetto by the scary, or completely out of the element hoods for aforementioned income group. stores, shops, schools usually are not there and it’s tougher to fit in and get the things this group wants. this is my observation and opinion. i’m saying what i think is all.
hispanic areas also tend to gentrify because they are not owners and move when the rents and condos and high prices come in. saw that big time in chicago and now in major areas of williamsburg.
in chicago, for instance, yuppies and the very wealthy living around cabrini green typically had major break in problems.”
Interesting…you avoid using the words “black people,” but I think it’s pretty clear where you’re going. Thanks.
lurker, I dare admit I was wondering what happened and even thought perhaps all of us are one and the same poster.
i_haz_two_DOWhatDaves-Nokilechacel-bxchampion-Make My Heights the Heather_Pole.etc.etc…
the debate here is in the choice of lifestyle. some people may say that a $1300 apartment in buffalo is worth it to them and a $735 apartment in brooklyn wouldn’t cut it. dif’rnt strokes and all that.
anyone looking for an excellent public school system would do very well in the williamsville central school district in williamsville/east amherst ny. it is near the ub north campus and ranked 49th out of 693 school districts in the state.
i’m too lazy to search for each post asking “what is a beef on weck” … it’s a thinly sliced rare roast beef sandwich on a kimmelweck or kummelweck roll [basically a kaiser roll topped with pretzel salt & caraway seeds] served with au jus [beef juice] and horseradish. it’s commonly found on the menu of every good bar and tavern in the buffalo area. beef on weck + a cold beer = my husband’s idea of food heaven.
forget buffalo.philly is the place