# More news/proof that people are leaving NY **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 3, 2006, 8:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432 "2006-08-03T08:17:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/1 "2006-08-03T08:17:27Z")
[http://www.bcnys.org/whatsnew/2006/0802agingpop.htm](http://www.bcnys.org/whatsnew/2006/0802agingpop.htm) ---
**Author:** ![SkunkApe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/skunkape/32/7575_2.png) [@SkunkApe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SkunkApe)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/2 "2006-08-03T08:26:27Z")
i’ll be outta here in a few months… so it’s true 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![66impalass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/66impalass/32/7429_2.png) [@66impalass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/66impalass)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/3 "2006-08-03T08:30:07Z")
I am gone ---
**Author:** ![JaysGreenLX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jaysgreenlx/32/7321_2.png) [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/4 "2006-08-03T08:36:23Z")
I’m still here…probably will be for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/5 "2006-08-03T08:37:47Z")
My consulting business (something I do on top of my regular 40 hours a week) is being taxes at between 40 to 45% on profit. I’ve started looking for jobs in more tax friendly states. ---
**Author:** ![ILCisDEAD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a87d85/32.png) [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/6 "2006-08-03T08:46:04Z")
i can’t wait to get the fuck out of here. But there will be a few things i miss about buffalo… ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/7 "2006-08-03T08:46:21Z")
Nice sig Jay.🙂 If you guys leave we will just pick up the slack and pay higher taxes. That is what NY has always done, right?:gotme: We wouldn’t want to cut costs or anything silly like that. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/8 "2006-08-03T08:48:37Z")
> [@ILCisDEAD](#): > > i can’t wait to get the fuck out of here. > > But there will be a few things i miss about buffalo… Those few things are the only thing keeping people here. Buffalo is like a small town compared to other cities and people like that. It will be like a REALLY small town if people keep leaving.:lol: ---
**Author:** ![SkunkApe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/skunkape/32/7575_2.png) [@SkunkApe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SkunkApe)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/9 "2006-08-03T08:52:36Z")
the only things that would make me stay are friends and family… most of my friends are going back to school for their masters…so they won’t be around. My parents are moving out of buffalo so that’s another reason i don’t wanna stay. i really have no reason to stay here. I mean sure… there are some friends that are still here that i hate to leave, but getting out of buffalo is probably the best thing to do right now ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 9:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/10 "2006-08-03T09:08:37Z")
WNY is like basic training for civilians. Everyone gets stuck here for a bit, the cost of living is really cheap, you get educated, learn how things go, then you graduate, and everyone heads off to their own specific areas to actually accomplish something. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/11 "2006-08-03T09:12:54Z")
> [@Joe](#): > > WNY is like basic training for civilians. Everyone gets stuck here for a bit, the cost of living is really cheap, you get educated, learn how things go, then you graduate, and everyone heads off to their own specific areas to actually accomplish something. Speaking of having cheap costing of living, there has got to be a tipping point where people start to move back because the town is pretty much deserted and housing, etc is uber cheap. If it gets to that point though, that may be really bad. Edit: But the key is to gets jobs here to attract people. It always comes back to jobs. ---
**Author:** ![oldford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f17d59/32.png) [@oldford](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/oldford)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 9:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/12 "2006-08-03T09:50:39Z")
Once I sell my car Im gone. There are no jobs around here at all ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/13 "2006-08-03T09:52:41Z")
You have to have the jobs to get people off social services and paying taxes. You have to have less spending on social services and lower taxes to get the jobs. It’s a vicious cycle. Jobs get cut More people go on welfare, less people pay taxes Taxes go up Jobs get cut Rinse and Repeat. ---
**Author:** ![double\_j](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/double_j/32/7380_2.png) [@double\_j](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/double_j)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/14 "2006-08-03T10:04:44Z")
i am very on the fence right now about this. with my degree i just recieved, i can go elsewhere and get hired over the phone. here i can get a job, but it is a little bit more of a fight. i love my friends and family, but it might be fun to go elsewhere. the cost of living is another big plus of WNY. i can build a house that is geothermally heated and has solar power for way less here than a house without those features in one of the booming areas such as MD or NJ. ---
**Author:** ![dirtye30](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dirtye30/32/7333_2.png) [@dirtye30](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dirtye30)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 10:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/15 "2006-08-03T10:05:17Z")
im out in the begining of october. CANADA!!! ---
**Author:** ![BluBalls](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bluballs/32/7212_2.png) [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 10:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/16 "2006-08-03T10:07:05Z")
step 1 - leave buffalo step 2 - enjoy life ---
**Author:** ![JoesTypeS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joestypes/32/7190_2.png) [@JoesTypeS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JoesTypeS)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 10:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/17 "2006-08-03T10:24:41Z")
, visit [www.newyorkfed.org/buffalo](http://www.newyorkfed.org/buffalo). am I the only one who read that as www. New York F’ed .com? ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 10:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/18 "2006-08-03T10:26:24Z")
Nope, i did too ---
**Author:** ![JaysGreenLX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jaysgreenlx/32/7321_2.png) [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 11:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/19 "2006-08-03T11:05:04Z")
> [@dirtye30](#): > > im out in the begining of october. CANADA!!! Canada? I think thats worse. ---
**Author:** ![JaysGreenLX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jaysgreenlx/32/7321_2.png) [@JaysGreenLX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JaysGreenLX)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 11:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432/20 "2006-08-03T11:05:47Z")
> [@Joe](#): > > WNY is like basic training for civilians. Everyone gets stuck here for a bit, the cost of living is really cheap, you get educated, learn how things go, then you graduate, and everyone heads off to their own specific areas to actually accomplish something. True, but usually people don’t go back to basic training. I know so many people from here who left and somehow have ended up back here. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-news-proof-that-people-are-leaving-ny/15432.md?page=2)