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.
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Buffalo Neighborhood. Photo by jeffk42.
“I just want you fuckers to go back to flyover land and give the real New Yorkers their city back!”
Sorry DOWhat, we’ve got your city now forever. But you can keep Lodi.
Just saw all the spelling errors. Sorry was typing fast.
“Marine Midland was also a big employer but HSBC” is what I meant to type.
cobblehiller, that was priceless. But I think Lassie just rolled over in her doghouse in the sky after learing of being compared to DOWhat.
westernnygirl, despite what one might think given my comments about Buffalo above, I’ve probably spent more time there than almost anyone on this thread and agree that Buffalo has many redeeming qualities, perhaps most notably its incredibly friendly and proud citizens. And contrary to one of the posts above, I’ve seen more than my share of cutey patooties on Chippewa Street on a Saturday night. As for the beef on weck, make mine a Schwebel’s potato roll. I also would recommend Duff’s Wings over the Anchor Bar and one of the best steaks I’ve ever had was at EB Green’s at the Hyatt Hotel downtown.
“Hey, where’s Ozymandius today?!”
Sorry cobblehiller. You know people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder will only use one name. It’s like a bomber, he will always take responsibility for the act! I’m like the hood version of Hamas. Plus forget about the lassie thing but, it was funny.
I’m am The What Assholes!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
Back again, had to squeeze in some work today.
My friends that have left Buffalo have either moved to NYC, Charlotte, Willmington, LA, or Colorado. Actaully alot moved to Colorado and N. Carolina.
The problem with Buffalo and Rochester is that there are NO JOBS. Buffalo was an industrial city and we all know what has happended to industrial jobs in this country. Marine Midland was alos a big employer but HDBC gobbled them up years ago and phased out a ton of white collars jobs as well. The winters are cold and the sun doesnt come out for months which is terribly depressing. Rochester has the same problem with industry and it’s 2 biggest employers made bad decisions which has left them behind XEROX and KODAK. Both were based out of Rochester and both are past their peek.
Young people do not want to be there so they end of leaving, most do not return. They are dying cities held together by large universities and the remnents of large corporations.
I love both areas, my fiance’s family stills lives in the area and I find myself in Western NY 4-5 times a year but it’s depressing.
Also- You definetly need a car to live there. I don’t what you are smoking if you tell me that you can get around without one. Try waiting 30 mins for a bus in a snowstorm in minus zero degree weather.
Biff – I hear ya. In that situation I imagine I would be one of those returning to NYC. Actually, I wouldn’t have moved to Buffalo in the first place, but that’s just my own preference.
The real point is, though some of these workers may have moved back to the the city, their jobs did not. Perhaps those jobs will return in a few years, when what I suspect will often prove to be a false economic benefit, is revealed as such.
“People who want to live in Brooklyn come to this site to try to discuss the ins and outs of the insanity that is the NYC real estate market. You, and your various sock-puppets, come here to sow discontent, fear and paranoia.”
Nope homeboy. you see wasder I’m in your head. You know deep down that I’m correct about the upcoming crash. I just want you fuckers to go back to flyover land and give the real New Yorkers their city back! Bunch of fucking city hijacking motherfuckers!
TownhouseLady the war is not over but, someday this war is gonna end…
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
“You spend a lot of time and effort on these people that you clearly seems to think aren’t worth it.”
Psst, TownhouseLady – over here: I think What secretly LOVES us. Yep, he does. That’s why he hangs with us so much. He’s worried about our future, he wants us to be safe so he’s warning us off – like Lassie warning Timmy away from the Mine Shaft. It’s touching, no?
SnarkSlope, I believe I know the firm to which you refer and I don’t dispute increased outsourcing like this is a possibility in the years ahead. But an interesting fact is that many of those who took up the offer to relocate to Buffalo ended up returning to the NY area shortly thereafter. Just sayin’.
ditto, why even bother to try to understand the incomprehensible?