# Snyder Burglaries **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 14, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750 "2012-01-14T19:28:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/41 "2012-01-17T07:51:05Z")
My quality of life living in the city is WAY better than if I didn’t. Proximity to good stuff \> proximity to Amherst strip malls. ---
**Author:** ![FadetoBlack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fadetoblack/32/6118_2.png) [@FadetoBlack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FadetoBlack)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 7:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/42 "2012-01-17T07:53:04Z")
> [@newman](#): > > My quality of life living in the city is WAY better than if I didn’t. Proximity to good stuff \> proximity to Amherst strip malls. 👏 👏 👏 ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 8:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/43 "2012-01-17T08:05:07Z")
> [@newman](#): > > My quality of life living in the city is WAY better than if I didn’t. Proximity to good stuff \> proximity to Amherst strip malls. See you have it wrong… I don’t hate city living I really like NYC, Philadelphia, DC, and a large number of other places because they OFFER a lot… Buffalo has very very little to offer people living in the city ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 8:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/44 "2012-01-17T08:08:29Z")
You city vs suburbs crime guys know you’re arguing anecdotes vs statistics right? And for anyone arguing that someone should choose to live somewhere based on some sort of greater good, I laugh in your general direction. ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/45 "2012-01-17T08:16:08Z")
> [@LZ](#): > > . > > Buffalo has very very little to offer people living in the city Negs bro. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 8:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/46 "2012-01-17T08:19:34Z")
Negs what? I can easily drive to all of the quality restaurants in the city…and guess what it takes me 15min to get down town lol. Buffalo isn’t designed around public transportation/walking for city living everything is way to spread out. The whole reason I would want to live in another major city is I could work/live/find entertainment all with out needing a car and all in the city…Buffalo isn’t setup for that currently. For instance [http://www.elkterminal.com/](http://www.elkterminal.com/) - Lets put some lofts next to the projects away from anything useful :tup: ---
**Author:** ![FadetoBlack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fadetoblack/32/6118_2.png) [@FadetoBlack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FadetoBlack)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/47 "2012-01-17T08:34:21Z")
Buffalo has stuff to offer, you just have to be more open-minded than you would have to be in NYC to find it. ---------- Post added at 11:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:31 AM ---------- > [@Fry](#): > > And for anyone arguing that someone should choose to live somewhere based on some sort of greater good, I laugh in your general direction. I think we talked about this before Fry and we just agreed to disagree. I think I wound up saying that I would give up certain things or even take a small hit financially if it meant I was doing something for the greater good. I think you told me I was crazy. :biglaugh: It’s just a difference in opinion. ---
**Author:** ![bluelawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bluelawn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bluelawn)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 8:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/48 "2012-01-17T08:40:49Z")
Don’t forget to factor school districts when debating why people live certain places. i used to live on Hertal, now that i have children i live in snyder. ---
**Author:** ![FadetoBlack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fadetoblack/32/6118_2.png) [@FadetoBlack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FadetoBlack)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/49 "2012-01-17T08:44:12Z")
Yeah city schools generally bite but there are always charter schools - which are free. Also, I would bet that living in the city and sending your kids to private school might still cost less or be comparable to the difference in taxes. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/50 "2012-01-17T08:52:47Z")
> [@FadetoBlack](#): > > Yeah city schools generally bite but there are always charter schools - which are free. > > Also, I would bet that living in the city and sending your kids to private school might still cost less or be comparable to the difference in taxes. And you just lost your argument :lol: Nichols School (Buffalo), $18,000 Park School of Buffalo (Amherst), $16,500 Buffalo Seminary (Buffalo), $15,970 Canisius High School (Buffalo), $9,950 St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute (Kenmore-Tonawanda), $9,040 Nardin Academy High School (Buffalo), $8,675 Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart (Amherst), $8,565 St. Francis High School (Frontier), $8,385 Mount St. Mary Academy (Kenmore-Tonawanda), $8,100 Holy Angels Academy (Buffalo), $7,800 Mount Mercy Academy (Buffalo), $7,100 Immaculata Academy (Frontier), $7,025 Bishop Timon-St. Jude High School (Buffalo), $7,000 Then there is another issue nice houses in the city are usually north of $200,000 ---
**Author:** ![FadetoBlack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fadetoblack/32/6118_2.png) [@FadetoBlack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FadetoBlack)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 9:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/51 "2012-01-17T09:29:20Z")
I was talking primarily about grammar schools. Most are like $1,500 I believe. The city has some decent high schools like City Honors which I believe was ranked 9th or something in the nation and Hutch Tech is a great school too. As long as you emphasize how important school is from the start with your kids and make sure they do well they could get in to one of those schools. So no, I haven’t lost my argument big guy. Your claim on housing prices is baseless by the way. I could probably find 10 nice houses in the city for less than 140k and post them. I’m talking nice too. You can get a decent house for 60k with 3000 square feet in South Buffalo. Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 9:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/52 "2012-01-17T09:36:52Z")
Or you could buy a house in Williamsville for 180k…Where a comparable house in north buffalo would be much more and get 1 of the best school districts in the US. ---
**Author:** ![FadetoBlack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fadetoblack/32/6118_2.png) [@FadetoBlack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FadetoBlack)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/53 "2012-01-17T09:43:16Z")
Ha! But in Buffalo you get a house with character and craftsmanship, not a McMansion built by Marrano. Listen I’m not arguing this to be a pain in the ass I’m just trying to prove that it’s possible to live in the city and have a great life. Look what I said up there, the city needs more educated, dynamic people. I’m just trying to promote the idea. Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/54 "2012-01-17T10:03:17Z")
I would move to North Buffalo if I wasn’t planning on having a family or when they are all gone… I do agree the house quality is better 🙂 However I still don’t consider living in North Buffalo living in the “city” ---
**Author:** ![FadetoBlack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fadetoblack/32/6118_2.png) [@FadetoBlack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FadetoBlack)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 10:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/55 "2012-01-17T10:18:18Z")
You’re right it isn’t living in the “city” in the traditional sense. It’s not like you’re living in an apartment in Manhattan with a stoop and taxis flying down the street. As we all know, Buffalo isn’t like that. But you are living in the city because you’re one more good citizen with a job who could pay taxes and add to the tax base. The city would then have more revenue to build roads, buy new firetrucks and just improve the overall quality of life. It’s all just economics to me. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2012, 10:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/56 "2012-01-17T10:41:09Z")
> [@bluelawn](#): > > Don’t forget to factor school districts when debating why people live certain places. > i used to live on Hertal, now that i have children i live in snyder. That is why I built in EA but now my kid goes to private school… Looking to build somewhere with lower taxes now… j/k… sort of. lol ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 11:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/57 "2012-01-17T11:37:07Z")
If you want to fix the city just bomb the welland canal. The St Lawrence Seaway is the reason Buffalo’s population has been dropping for 60 years and is currently at 50% capacity, which is the reason so much of it sucks so hard. ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/58 "2012-01-17T12:54:40Z")
I would rather ride my bike or skateboard to a place I want to go in the city than hop in my car and spend 15 minutes driving there. Living where I live is awesome ALL THE TIME. If I had kids it’d be a different story. But I don’t ever want that to happen. ---
**Author:** ![FadetoBlack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fadetoblack/32/6118_2.png) [@FadetoBlack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FadetoBlack)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/59 "2012-01-17T13:30:23Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > If you want to fix the city just bomb the welland canal. The St Lawrence Seaway is the reason Buffalo’s population has been dropping for 60 years and is currently at 50% capacity, which is the reason so much of it sucks so hard. You could blame Buffalo’s downfall on a bunch of different things, but yeah the Welland Canal/St. Lawrence Seaway was one of the nails in the coffin. ---------- Post added at 04:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:30 PM ---------- > [@newman](#): > > I would rather ride my bike or skateboard to a place I want to go in the city than hop in my car and spend 15 minutes driving there. Living where I live is awesome ALL THE TIME. If I had kids it’d be a different story. But I don’t ever want that to happen. Whereabouts? North Buffalo? ---
**Author:** ![evane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6bbea6/32.png) [@evane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/evane)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750/60 "2012-01-17T13:42:01Z")
> [@FadetoBlack](#): > > I was talking primarily about grammar schools. Most are like $1,500 I believe. The city has some decent high schools like City Honors which I believe was ranked 9th or something in the nation and Hutch Tech is a great school too. > > As long as you emphasize how important school is from the start with your kids and make sure they do well they could get in to one of those schools. > > So no, I haven’t lost my argument big guy. > > Your claim on housing prices is baseless by the way. I could probably find 10 nice houses in the city for less than 140k and post them. > > I’m talking nice too. You can get a decent house for 60k with 3000 square feet in South Buffalo. > > Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk Buffalo has many good schools but some hard to get your kid into… City Honors Performing Arts Olmstead Elementary Science Magnet I like you Fade grew up in the city and really do miss living in the city, though I would never move back to Riverside. I hold out hope I can convince my wife to move to North Buffalo (Central Park, Park Meadow areas), Elmwood or Delaware Districts someday. I currently live in a 1920’s build in Synder. For our first house we came so close to buying a really nice victorian across from Delaware Park, but wife wanted Tonawanda. My wife grew up rural areas and hated it, so Amherst/Tonawanda are “city” for her. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750.md?page=2) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snyder-burglaries/219750.md?page=4)