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.
Thanks I_haz_TWO_toilets! That’s funny and made me smile. Perhaps to avoid confusion, you could change your name to I_haz_TWO_toilets_in_two_separate_bathrooms, lest anyone thinks they’re right beside each other. Having been a single toileter back in the day, I’m sure I was right in there on that thread expressing my jubilation at “hazzing” multiple toilets now!
No offense intended, Kensington Gal.
Biff — Remember back to that thread where there was raging debate over why a two bedroom apartment would need two bathrooms? That’s the secret of my handle. I have often felt so disenfranchised here as a renter, that I couldn’t help but exclaim my dual-toileted state (rented though they may be). It has become something of a joke in my house, bitter single-toilters vs. smug dual-toileters.
All in good fun, of course.
I think wine lover may be referring to Italian neighborhoods, such as Carroll Gardens back in the day. I also think wine lover may be trying to kick up a reeroar, what with talking about where white people should and should not live.
I actually live in Kensington now. I am not really a fan of the area.
I know two teachers that just moved to Buffalo and got a huge house in the best section of the city for less than $300K- loaded with details, recent upgrades, etc. Some of the houses in Parkside are truly amazing. I grew up outside of Buffalo and I miss some parts of it but not others. My bro moved to the above mentioned East Aurora a couple years ago and he would’ve had to get an advocate or a lawyer to get the same level of education in the NYC school system for his autistic son that was readily available for free there. It was such a fight with bureaucracy here but very easy there.
It all depends on what you are looking for- if you follow the advice of others here it’s better to stay in NYC but move farther out. Well, you don’t necessarily get the restaurants and amenities there either. Since I left the Buffalo area, I’ve seen a ton of changes for the better but I don’t think it will ever be what we consider a world class city. A lot of people would trade world class for a life with less struggle if you can get a job you like well enough. The thought of dealing with a lot less BS just to get to work in the morning is sometimes appealing.
By the way, Buffalo has a lot less snow than it ever did when I was a kid and it rarely shuts the place down. And 11214, the BarBill is the best for the Beef on Weck, which I miss most. I get some every time I’m home.
Biff- KKK’ers wear them. They’re pointy with little eye holes.
Well, make of it what you will- it was chunks of lamb (although they do it with chicken too now) on a stick, that’s been marinated is spices and then grilled. You eat it with french bread and I profess it’s delicious. It’s the spices but I couldn’t figure out exactly what they were.
Of course men in skimpy bathing trunks are nothing to be sneezed at-. We used much german beer to take advantage of them.
wine lover, what’s an “ethnic white hood”?
for those who think that can’t afford brownstone brooklyn:
here are some other ideas for hoods:
ridgewood, Queens
kensington
east williamsburg PS132 district
east wiliamsburg / greenpoint PS110
all safe areas that are less expensive that are good for families and have good schools that aren’t over-flowing.
you need to find areas that are great values for what they offer – don’t just glance at them. really look and do some research.
my advice of course is to stay away from ghetto neighborhoods. i only believe in middle class whites pioneering in places where safety is not an issue (ie: ethnic white hoods) and you can send your kids to the public school. that’s my POV, others disagree.
Hey! I grew up in Eastchester, in what used to be called Hillside Homes.
I remember reading IT in the hospital, just before surgery. I’ll never know why but I remember that scene in the junkyard too. Until I read that it never occurred to me exactly how versatile (and I’m not sure that’s the word I should really use) the human body is.