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.
Biff- There’s a Stephen King novel that can explain it far better than I in full and exciting detail. The one with the clown in the sewer (for the life of me I can’t remember the name). However there’s a classic scene in the junkyard that explains it all.
I’m one of those who doesn’t get the sniping about smaller cities or living in Buffalo. Granted it’s not NY but for some people that’s exactly what they want. More power to ’em.
“One you put some fire to their asses , they will try to ban you.”
I’ve heard of the hotfoot prank, i.e., the practical joke of lighting a match that has been secretly inserted between the sole and upper of a victim’s shoe. However, I’m unfamiliar with the hotass prank – I suppose DOWhat prefers to secretly insert his match somewhere different. He’s such a mischievous little devil.
“Hey Mr./Ms. What, you forgot to list the time Mr. Brownstoner accused the Mirrors Bar of harboring drug activity, and said the local police precinct “needs to check that place out.””
That’s right! I forgot about that one. Brownstoner yanked that one! You see Brownstoner is a meeting place for fucking hiprocrites! One you put some fire to their asses , they will try to ban you.
I love this shit! I’m in your heads…..
The What (Tick.. Tick… Tick…)
Someday this war is gonna end….
Lived in Binghamton after college and I love upstate NY also. Still plan on going back, but more like the Norwich area. It’s not for everyone but as a native New Yorker, as much as I love it here, it’s gotten too expensive and too difficult. I’ve only passed through Buffalo, so I don’t know much about it but Jamestown is beautiful, has a big arts community and another place I’d consider.
what is beef on weck?
the bar bill tavern in east aurora is the place for wings & beef on weck in the buffalo area.
Cool! Love the stats. I am going to move to Buffalo and be the richest person in town! yeehaw! Me tatonka.
Oh, do you think they have a Choice market there? I might miss that turkey burger with chipotle mayo.
More like Bust a flow.
I love upstate new york. With the exception of Albany, I would not want to live in a major city there. I would rather live out in the country, perhaps around the Finger Lakes, a remote area in the Catskills, or the Adirondacks.
I’m just guy who grew up in Brooklyn and Long Island and I know that Upstate is great. However its small cities will suck the life out of you. I spent five years going to school in the foothills of the Adirondacks. It was amazing and if I had the chance to go back and live, I would. But I’m talking about Buffalo. Upstate’s small cities leave much to be desired.
Have any of you yuppies been to Utica? I’m sure it would give you nightmares. The one about Utica is that it does exceptional Italian food. It’s the Bensonhurst of Upstate.