Lol. Only in Buffalo can someone making 5 figures be called elitist.
Beck you are pretty much on point this thread. People in Buffalo talk about how awesome the city is but the people who have the money to spend and help bring life back into it they want nothing to do with. No wonder the median income in the city is less than 30k a year.
Buffalo Housing
Owner-occupied homes 41.8%
Median cost of a home $60,800
Median mortgage payment $501
Renter-occupied homes 58.2%
Vacant housing 16.8%
Median monthly rent $586
Average Income
Median for all workers $21,517
Median for all male full-time $39,345
Median for all female full-time $29,628
Household Income
Less than $10,000 19%
$10,000 to $14,999 10%
$15,000 to $24,999 17%
$25,000 to $34,999 13%
$35,000 to $49,999 15%
$50,000 to $74,999 13%
$75,000 to $99,999 6%
$100,000 to $149,999 4%
$150,000 to $199,999 1%
$200,000 or more 1%
Take that occupy Buffalo :lol:
So some how between my soon to be wife and myself I am now a 1%er thanks Buffalo for sucking lol
^^ Lol. Top 12% of Buffalo for being 26 and not having a woman help me 
I do wonder how many people who make $150,000 or more alone actually live here full time.
A lot.
$150,000 isn’t that much. I’m not saying it’s not a lot of loot, but it’s not as uncommon as you might think.
A few of my neighbors easily clear $200k and I don’t even live in the high end of my neighborhood.
I mean by “here” as in the city of Buffalo as the numbers he posted I figured were inside the city and didn’t include suburbs and that most people who were making good money peaced the fuck out of the city. Lol
Right but clearly as the stats point out it’s actually rare based on Buffalos population
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Williamsville Housing
Owner-occupied homes 60.3%
Median cost of a home $102,000
Median mortgage payment $639
Renter-occupied homes 39.7%
Vacant housing 4.0%
Median monthly rent $634
Average Income
Median for all male full-time $43,500
Median for all female full-time $32,172
Household Income
Less than $10,000 6%
$10,000 to $14,999 9%
$15,000 to $24,999 9%
$25,000 to $34,999 12%
$35,000 to $49,999 15%
$50,000 to $74,999 21%
$75,000 to $99,999 15%
$100,000 to $149,999 9%
$150,000 to $199,999 2%
$200,000 or more 2%
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Clarence has a similar distribution http://www.city-data.com/income/income-Clarence-New-York.html
Clarence has too many “low income” properties on it, especially in the country. Plus a lot of the baller houses that people think are in Clarence are really in East Amherst even though they are in Clarence school district. Loch Lea, etc.
Maybe you should have went to Williamsville East with the cool kids instead of North? lol
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Maybe you should’ve moved from Texas earlier. We could’ve been hooking up a lot more earlier than we were.
LOL I am a 1%er in Buffalo. Why do I have such a non baller house then? Oh well. I like this list because it reinforces my current investment mentality. Stock market is volatile and TONS of people rent homes in buffalo. I am buying houses and renting them instead of hoping my money does something in the market.
Oh and Boxxa, all of S. Buffalo is not a shit hole, just the majority. I have neighbors that clear more in a year than you will in the next 10. (I guess it helps that Pat Kane is one of them)
so the average income for a full time male in williamsville is only 4k more than buffalo?
sounds like a downer with those property values and taxes
It’s not the fact that is currently 100% a shit hole…
Watch what happens over the next 10 years
The same thing has been happening to cheektowaga that boarders with the city…It is happening to Sloan and other places that were once nice neighborhoods.
stupid forum
The people that do this work DO exist, they just cost money…and well, Buffalo isn’t where the money is. I see houses (Old and New) everyday that excede the above level of detail and quality and craftsmanship, but not while i was livnig in buffalo.
But then again, around here people are paying $100K+/yr just for landscaping maintainence.
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I mean for comparison of a luxory hote/mansion that Buffalo is trying to protray as their top contender… has no comparison to this:
^that is DETAIL and QUALITY!
Yes. I am not saying there is not nice places in S Buffalo. I am just saying that LZ already pointed out that these areas are slowly getting worse and for long term sustainability, there is not much motivation to get people to put money into something that is slowly getting less and less valuable.
The big issue is if Buffalo wants to get people to move into the city and put money there, they need to have programs that get the types of people back to the city such as the young professionals. The areas that have nice houses but are surrounded by section 8 housing and poorer neighborhoods are just going downhill and no one wants to invest.
There is better and worse parts of any town but again, its the future sustainability of a neighborhood that Buffalo doesn’t have much of
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WTF is wrong with the double posts this week?
Borders.
Oh yeah and you wanted to know who D was?
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I hope black people dont start living in my neighborhood.
Recently for the first time, I have been feeling lucky to have been born in Buffalo. There is opportunity if youre lucky enough to earn as much as the average person of a wealthy city, but still reap the benefits of our ridiculously cheap real estate and cost of living. Owning rentals is very easy to do if youre one of these lucky people. Being in your 20’s with good credit, in this economy, in this area gives you power.
Earning 60k in a city like San Fran will not make it nearly as far. Spending 200k on a house that goes for 70k in Buff.
I feel like the argument that buying a 200k house in an expensive city that is worth 70k in Buffalo would be the same say saying, I could buy a steak from Chop House for $50 or get a filet from Walmart for $5.
The flip side to that argument is property taxes other places are a shit ton less…in NC a 200k house might have 2k in Taxes in say Williamsville its like 6-7 or more depending on location.
for whatever reason health insurance and a number other things are also cheaper outside of NY.
You also have to figure in other areas do pay more
I figured out what works for me though find a company out of state that lets you work from home but will pay what they do the local people
