There are simply too many factors involved when it comes to choosing where you want to sustain a life to try and argue about taxes. I break it down to this:
COL
Wages
Job Availability
FAMILY
Friends
Networking
Lifestyle
The last four are pretty huge and were barely mentioned in this thread. These are things that you have to consider before relocating. Unless you’re a selfish hermit that hates your family.
The orginal topic was relocation based on cost of living one lol
Wages and job availability don’t really apply to buffalo
From the article:
Buffalo is an older, industrial city that has “gone through a sort of gut-wrenching transition into the 21st Century,” Sperling says. And now that it’s gotten over the bumps, it’s a great place to live.
The Buffalo-Niagara Falls area has a growing arts scene and it’s affordable: The cost of living is 14.4 percent below the national average, and the average home price is $119,700, well below the national average of $171,700.
There are more than 20 parks in Buffalo, earning it the nickname, “City of Trees,” and for all you sports fans, it’s home of the Buffalo Bills football team and Buffalo Sabres hockey team. As for Niagara Falls, the city has moved from an industrial center to a more sustainable tourism-based economy, and with the opening of the Conference Center Niagara Falls a few years ago, it now attracts more business travelers.
The unemployment rate in the region is 8.3 percent, below the national average. Health care and education are the fastest growing industries here.
Companies That Are Hiring Now: Synacor, M&T Bank, Kaleida Health and HSBC Bank, according to Indeed.com.
I’d REALLY like to argue that education is one of the fastest growing industries here…
Maybe one of the most popular degrees? But yeah, teaching jobs are scarce in NY.
OR HSBC Bank LOL
There was a lot of people seeing that market in NY die out right when it did. Everyone wanted to teach since they said they needed teachers in NY. Nursing will be the next one in the next 5-10 years. So many people are going back to be nurses because they can’t get work elsewhere and we will see that one crumble here too.
That would hurt us even more. Our education department used to reel in like 300 new students per semester. Now…8.
This always seems to turn into a “you hate buffalo debate”
I have moved away twice and moved back I just wish people would push legit reasons to move here.
Like home prices are 14.4% lower then the national average however that is quickly fucked by taxes :lol:
The potential for lockport to bring in other datacenters is huge.
Cheap power for new businesses.
The new tech startup sector in Buffalo.
General Mills, Rich products, HSBC, First Niagara, Geico, Synacor.
Multiple shitty sports teams.
International airport that is never busy
Short flying time to Boston, NYC
Short drive to Toronto
Lots of green space
quality local restaurants(however the more I travel the more I realize all major cities also have this however they seem to lack in the suburbs in other places)
Williamsville has some of the best schools in the country
And there aren’t too many places where it’s 60 in December.
Global warming Buffalo is going to be a prime area to live in 20 years :tup:
we are super spoiled by the lack of traffic / commute times we have.
we can buy booze on sunday :tup:
wegmans!
Commute is fine as long as you’re not passing the blue water tower :lol:
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For ZERO reason whatsoever. It blows my mind that people can’t properly merge there. The amount of accidents there is equally as mind blowing.
^LOL fuck that 290/90 split.
+1 on the food. You can get anything from a cheap burrito, to high end food in Buffalo.
You mean the 290/90/33 cluster fuck they built? What a brilliant decision. Lets throw all the cars coming down the 290 into the 90 and right there have people also try to head downtown or to the airport at the same interchange. I am not originally from Buffalo but Amherst in general seems like it was not built to accommodate anywhere near the amount of traffic they get today.
Yep, first off nobody seems to realize that from the 290 -> 90 the right lane ends. So people fly down the right side and then slam on the brakes to try and merge. Then god forbid you need to get off at the 33W going downtown, you gotta merge right again. It also gets shitty on the actual 33E going towards the airport when traffic is coming off and going on to the 90. You have about 200 yards to move onto the 33.
what was it like 20 years ago the place was primarily a swamp.
its the definition of awful suburban sprawl. nothing but strip malls, 5 line roads/highways cutting through neighborhoods, and cookie cutter homes… ugh.
^ Pretty legit list.
I’ll add weather. Some of us (snowmobilers, skiiers, snowboarders) actually look forward to the change of seasons and aren’t interested in living down south.
I will agree. The winter sports are much better in Buffalo due to the landscape. Not that I like most of them but at least there were options.
Detroit has a lot more watersports stuff in the summer with all the inland lakes.
(not trying to make this a detroit vs buffalo thread but making observations)