# buffalo the new frontier... **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 27, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-the-new-frontier/53961 "2008-08-27T13:24:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jared](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jared/32/4976_2.png) [@Jared](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jared)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-the-new-frontier/53961/1 "2008-08-27T13:24:19Z")
If your into the city its a good read … New York is all about _what could be_,” says David Cloyd, a 34-year-old musician who moved to the city from Austin ten years ago. “You know: The _potential_. The _possibilities_.” He’s echoing, of course, the aspirational mantra that’s lured a million hopeful dreamers to New York before him. And in exchange for this promise of limitless possibility, this tantalizing _what-could-be,_ New York requires of these dreamers that they pursue two simultaneous lives: the romantic, invigorating, spectacular life you imagine for yourself, and the expensive, often dispiriting, intermittently grueling day-to-day life you have to lead in order to keep that dream life alive. This is exhilarating. This is exhausting. This is what New York is all about. And for Cloyd, at least, all those possibilities finally seem within reach. After moving to Brooklyn, he met his wife, Jaime Herbeck, a managing editor at Picador. He’s been signed to a New York label, Engine Company, and his first album, _Unhand Me, You Fiend!,_ is scheduled to come out in January. Now the couple is thinking about kids. _What could be!_ Except that this musician, David Cloyd? Um, he doesn’t live in New York anymore. He lives in Buffalo. Until last May, Cloyd and Herbeck were living in Sunset Park, in Brooklyn, and they were barely making it. They ate mac ’n’ cheese for dinner. They couldn’t afford to go out with their friends. They wanted a family, but “there was no room in our Brooklyn equation to have kids unless we put them in a closet,” Herbeck says. [http://nymag.com/realestate/features/49491/](http://nymag.com/realestate/features/49491/) [http://buffalorising.com/story/where\_the\_urban\_dream\_life\_is#sca](http://buffalorising.com/story/where_the_urban_dream_life_is#sca)