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would suggest williamsville, it's pretty central, excellent schools, affordable, diverse. i live in east amherst myself, drive is too far from downtown especially in snow (can take 1.5 to 2 hours....)
would suggest williamsville, it's pretty central, excellent schools, affordable, diverse. i live in east amherst myself, drive is too far from downtown especially in snow (can take 1.5 to 2 hours....)
1.5 to 2 hours to where? Williamsville is affordable or is this in comparison to the other communities?
would suggest williamsville, it's pretty central, excellent schools, affordable, diverse. i live in east amherst myself, drive is too far from downtown especially in snow (can take 1.5 to 2 hours....)
LOL 2 hours and you are in Toronto or Syracuse from Williamsville. You could walk from Wiliamsville to downtown theater district in leass than two hours.
LOL 2 hours and you are in Toronto or Syracuse from Williamsville. You could walk from Wiliamsville to downtown theater district in leass than two hours.
From January 28 to February 1, 1977 the avg commute time was 2+ hrs from Williamsville to downtown. Heck it took my mom 36 hours to get home from Brighton/Eggert to Main St Williamsville!
Yes, I'm being silly
No it doesn't take 2hrs to get downtown more than once every lifetime or so...
Lancaster. We never did longer than 45 min in bad weather unless it was major snow ( a huge blizzard took us over 2 hours; but we had to stay at work overnight - Nov 2000). If you like expressways, the 33 starts at the airport and goes right downtown. We took roads into north Buffalo for almost 30 years
Avoid anything where you need the Skyway. It is asking for trouble
My two cents are live in Buffalo, but don't buy an expensive house. Suppose you buy a house between 80-100K. Your taxes are about $2000. The money you save on taxes over 30 years + the amount you save on interest will permit you to send kids to private school. There are some very nice affordable neighborhoods in Buffalo. So I don't know if you've done your purchase, good luck. Me personally, my commute is a 15 minute walk in the morning to the metro station. Never shovel a driveway or scrape ice off of a car again!
My two cents are live in Buffalo, but don't buy an expensive house. Suppose you buy a house between 80-100K. Your taxes are about $2000. The money you save on taxes over 30 years + the amount you save on interest will permit you to send kids to private school. There are some very nice affordable neighborhoods in Buffalo. So I don't know if you've done your purchase, good luck. Me personally, my commute is a 15 minute walk in the morning to the metro station. Never shovel a driveway or scrape ice off of a car again!
My two cents are live in Buffalo, but don't buy an expensive house. Suppose you buy a house between 80-100K. Your taxes are about $2000. The money you save on taxes over 30 years + the amount you save on interest will permit you to send kids to private school. There are some very nice affordable neighborhoods in Buffalo. So I don't know if you've done your purchase, good luck. Me personally, my commute is a 15 minute walk in the morning to the metro station. Never shovel a driveway or scrape ice off of a car again!
let's see, walking across sidewalks that haven't been shoveled, bracing the winds, and climbing over snow drifts on the corner..where to get to stand around with the unwashed, and have some slob sneeze all over you ..yeah I'd say you got it made -
Hamburg is actually an easier/shorter commute to downtown than the others. My wife works in Kenmore (a good drive north of downtown) and she's usually home within a 1/2 hour, I can be downtown in 15 minutes. Clarence & East Amherst can be a good 35-40 minutes from Downtown & the traffic in that part of the metro is a lot worse than in the Southtowns. Lewiston is the furthest out.
Southtowns have HALF the traffic of Amherst...it's congested as hell because the schools rock and the shopping is primo...the price of success...
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