Wait, they finally banned Karter?
People are always going to get offended when somebody from the “outside” insults your “inside”. So the Buffalonian outrage is expected anytime somebody steps on your pee pee.
moving away from buffalo has been one of the best decisions in my life. I can’t speak for everyone, but buffalo just sucks the life out of you. It’s dark and depressing. Everybody around you (the general poplulation) is fat and unmotivated. I can still respect buffalo for what it is, but after 30+yrs, it’s like being a bills fan for the past 15yrs… the “maybe next year” hope gets old. Year after year watching horrible government decisions, the waterfront, the peace bridge… and REALLY BUFFALO? FUCKING REALLY?.. your BIG Game plan fror kickstarting downtown was FUCKING BASS PRO? It seems so tough for anybody who has never left the city to ever understand this, but yet this is their argument:
1.) the food
2.) the People (which really aren’t that nice, i have a lot more random conversations with people here in Palm Beach than ever, because they aren’t miserable)
3.) the bars are open til 4am
^really? that’s what keeps you here? cool.
Buffalo works for some people, they are stuck in their own comfort zone. Whether it be friends, family, work, or whatever… but it wasn’t the life for me. I left for Palm Beach last year and left my family, quit my engineering job, and found new friends.
I still own a decent piece of property in buffalo which i currently rent out. When the time comes, it’ll be a summer home to enjoy the few weeks of nice weather, the family, and then leave before 8 months of winter.
Buffalo, like any place has positives. But be true to yourself and decide if Buffalo as a community can provide you with the lifestyle you want or if you’re just rooting yourself out of fear of the unknown. Either way, LIVE your life wherever you feel it best suited.
I type this as i look out my window at the sun and palm trees, with my “summer” car gassed and ready to drive to the beach.
Many ‘pro-Buffalo’ comments in here, which I agree with with and feel like in my time here in Buffalo I have built a resume where I could be included into the mix, despite what I’ve posted here in this thread. Perhaps I should elaborate on where my viewpoint comes from…
There is no doubt a very active culture right now, a culture that is still an underground movement of sorts. This is a group who have big goals for this city, people who are in process of achieving these goals, people who’s voices will get louder. The unfortunate element to this success, in my opinion, lies with those in charge of expansion and growth for downtown for that is the area where a city gets judged. Just look at their track record of botched projects: Main St. downtown, anything on the many miles of waterfront, the Bass Pro deal, etc. I’ve seen small leaps in all these areas, however there is so much room to grow. Any of my perceived negativity (in case anyone has read it that way) is based on my reality of experiences here in Buffalo and the several other prosperous cities I have visited. The potential is here, it just needs to be built and not effed up and made into news headlines. As the underground movement becomes stronger and the current class of leaders are removed, the better Buffalo will begin to look from the outside to worldly travelers like Tom Brady.
edit: Josh nailed it^
That hotel SUCKS DICK!!! I stayed there with the slam piece one year on New Years Eve. When we went to check in, it was fucking wigger central!!! Fucking white kids with fucking chains trying to look tough. Then we went back to the hotel after a night of drinking and the blankets felt like we were sleeping in Owens Corning insulation. Fuck that place.
Mike 93- you fucking NAILED it in my opinion when you said how this shit hole area looks to fucking save our fucking grain elevators as they are a part of our past. I remember a few years ago reading all the bullshit about how we can’t tear them down because some cities like Cleveland turned their grain elevators into loft apts. as if even if this city was going to do that, it would take 24805724 years after all the red tape bullshit. Why fucking look backwards?
Lafengas-fucking nailed it about the Bass Pro. What the fuck is so special about a BAss Pro? As I understand it, they’re just like Dicks or Galyans correct? Fucking stupid idiots were talking about people coming to Buffalo for a Bass Pro shopping experience, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. How the fuck could anyone say that shit with a straight face and not laugh was beyond me.
Bass pro is terrible, no way in hell that pile of shit would have done anything to save the water front. Fuck that place.
I find most of the people that are the least happy with “Buffalo” are the people that have been here their whole lives. If you hate it here so much, you really should go. Try something different. You might find it’s not quite as bad here as you thought, or you might be happier elsewhere. All the “but my family and friends are here” bullshit is just a cop out.
Some of us like it here, and it has nothing to do with family or nostalgia of growing up here. There’s always something to do. I’ve been here just over a decade, and I love this place. My circle of friends are almost entirely transplants from other cities/regions(NYC, LI, Eastern Mass/Maine, Northern Virginia, Northern NJ). We all decided to move here for one reason or another(some for jobs, others for school), and decided to stay here, not because we have to, because we want to.
Ultimately, I think you get back whatever you put in.
I’m with cougarspeed (that’s an old woman interested in young men right? and fast cars I guess, with the speed part) and superfan
Well, the comment was in regards to how tough it is for his dad because of the hotels he has to stay in. So how is Brady’s home relevant?
Reading skills pwn you. The Mansion offered Brady a free night to show how good their hotel is. Brady’s home> the Mansion. Why would he want to travel to Buffalo (a shitty city) to stay in a hotel that is not as nice as his own home? Comprehend?
This isn’t about us living here and the love for the city…it’s about the perception of the city from those on the outside.
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The thing with the grain elevators is twofold. On one hand, yeah, they were a huge part in building this city…on the other, they represent the ‘all eggs in the basket’ failed business model. So why keep them? Travel to any other city that houses grain and you’ll see these massive structures, many still in use. For some reason Buffalo thinks these crumbling giants are as sacred as the pyramids. Dumb.
Also, I know the Bass Pro debate has been beat to death…but in the many roadtrips where I’ve been in a podunk town in the middle of nowhere with a Bass Pro, the parking lot is always packed. Would it have saved Buffalo, who knows…but it would have been a great cataylst to further development in the area. Again, dumb move Buffalo.
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The thing with the grain elevators is twofold. On one hand, yeah, they were a huge part in building this city…on the other, they represent the ‘all eggs in the basket’ failed business model. So why keep them? Travel to any other city that houses grain and you’ll see these massive structures, many still in use. For some reason Buffalo thinks these crumbling giants are as sacred as the pyramids. Dumb.
Also, I know the Bass Pro debate has been beat to death…but in the many roadtrips where I’ve been in a podunk town in the middle of nowhere with a Bass Pro, the parking lot is always packed. Would it have saved Buffalo, who knows…but it would have been a great cataylst to further development in the area. Again, dumb move Buffalo.
I’m well aware of that, but we’re still talking about hotels, and the offer was for Brady and his family(which I assume would include his father). You know, because his dad has it so tough. IDK, maybe his dad moved into a wing in his new house, but I’d think most people would rather stay at their home than a hotel.
In the end, the shitty mid market hotels in Buffalo are just as bad as the shitty mid market hotels in any other small NFL market(Jacksonville, Detroit, Green Bay). Brady just made a cheap/easy joke that falls in line with the perception most outsiders have of Buffalo.
No hotel can compare to your own multi-million dollar mansion, silly goose.
It doesnt really matter how much brady spends on his new house.
it will never have the attention to detail and craftsmanship that an 1870 Second Empire manse like the mansion does.
the people who do this kind of work are long since dead
^^^it really is a shame that no one does or knows how to do work like that anymore…
on a side note, my great grandpa was a master carpenter. i have the wooden toolbox he made as well as a shit ton of wooden tools that he used…its amazing how basic and primative the tools were that they used to build houses like that.
That house is ugly as shit.
I don’t know if your being sarcastic, but it’s not my cup of tea. You might want to stay there if your 70 and you want to relive your childhood. I doubt Tom Brady wants to sit around, drink tea and stare at wood all day. He’s probably used to doing that in the locker room anyways.
That house has some architectural importance, for sure. However, I am sure that Tom Brady and his wife probably prefer their own home to that.
No I am being honest. I think that old stuff is ugly. I love the modern buildings and layouts.
Although “ugly” by your standards, you have to appreciate the craftsmanship and work put in to a building like that.
Same as I appreciate the engineering and design process of modern buildings, these old homes started as a vision and with the hands of some highly skilled, tough as nails blue collar workers, they built it .