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
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.
Negs bro.
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/ - Lets put some lofts next to the projects away from anything useful :tup:
Buffalo has stuff to offer, you just have to be more open-minded than you would have to be in NYC to find it.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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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.
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.
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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”
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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Whereabouts? North Buffalo?
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.