Buffalo + NO JOBS = BYE (Boston, Mexico: home, living, prices)

[rubygreta]

Pittsburgh has a great skyline. I love the view of the skyline and the suspension bridge from the baseball stadium. One would never know this city has fallen on hard times.

[aka_mouse]

Originally Posted by ScrantonWilkesBarre

If you all want Buffalo to shine brightly again, then you must follow the lead of cities like Pittsburgh and Scranton---stop screaming your negatives to the world, and start highlighting the benefits of living in Western New York. None of us give a damn if you think life sucks in Buffalo; we're more interested in reasons why we should ponder relocating there and/or investing there. It is YOUR job to sell Buffalo to a world that has since written it off as being economically viable. I've taken this route with Scranton, and thus far I've been very successful in luring several new families to our city. How many of you can say the same about Buffalo when all you do is moan, groan, and b*tch about how much you hate living there?

No, see the problem is , the only people you are hearing on this forum are these boring middle-aged suburban douchebags that want to be living in these stupid vinyl clad fortesses on cul-de-sacs anyway . So to them it doesnt matter where they live. These people are incredibly shallow .. literally, on every level.

They move to where-ever they are told.. they base their decisions on what neighborhood has the nearest starbucks or the local golf course or something else equally embarrassing. Or the # of the sunny days or the tax rate (the tax which will go up as more money flood into the area and sits there untaxed) People flocked to SoCal and South Florida for the weather too ... I very very rarely hear anything good about either area.. esp FL

Its this lowest common denominator of American 'culture' -- which is a complete joke as it is. I personally find it revolting. The last place on earth I would ever want to live is in the endless soul-destroying sprawl that you find all over the south. Upstate cities have sprawled too, but our core cities at least retain character. All the sun-belt cities are completely sterile corporate environments. If a mass influx of jobs would turn Buffalo into a snowy version of Las Vegas sprawl.. **** it.. who would even want that?

[aka_mouse]

Originally Posted by Genghis

Dude, it's spelled Genghis as in Genghis Khan, not "Ghengis". Sheesh. Buffalonians.

And so what if they're having a drought in the southeast, it's temporary, that part of the country gets more rain than we do on average.

The lack of rain fall is temporary -- Its exasperating the problem but at the same time you seem to think that those falling aquifers and shrinking lakes and rivers are going to completely refill soon as it merely rains again .. .i have my doubts - especially as more and more people move there - putting an even HEAVIER burden on the environment! well anyway...have fun !

[jp03]

Originally Posted by aka_mouse

The lack of rain fall is temporary -- Its exasperating the problem but at the same time you seem to think that those falling aquifers and shrinking lakes and rivers are going to completely refill soon as it merely rains again .. .i have my doubts - especially as more and more people move there - putting an even HEAVIER burden on the environment! well anyway...have fun !

Charlotte 79 today and sunny,,,

[ScranBarre]

Originally Posted by jp03

Charlotte 79 today and sunny,,,

Scranton...2-4 inches of snow coming on Thursday. $2-4
...12 inches of snow coming on Sunday. $12
...more than two feet of snow this season by next week. $25
...having a White Christmas? PRICELESS!!!

[ScranBarre]

Originally Posted by aka_mouse

The lack of rain fall is temporary -- Its exasperating the problem but at the same time you seem to think that those falling aquifers and shrinking lakes and rivers are going to completely refill soon as it merely rains again .. .i have my doubts - especially as more and more people move there - putting an even HEAVIER burden on the environment! well anyway...have fun !

Average annual rain fall in these geographic areas is not increasing. Demand for water usage is increasing exponentially. 5,100,000+ folks now call Greater Atlanta home, making it one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Of that 5.1 million, under 500,000 live in the city limits, meaning that over 9/10 of the metropolitan area lives in some form of suburban sp-r--a---w----l.

Why is that a bad thing? Mile after mile of low-density development has a MUCH greater impact upon the groundwater table than a narrow cluster of high-density development. Just think about all of the massive paved parking lots and other non-permeable surfaces that big-box stores like Wal-Mart love to plop in front of their structures. Then think about all of the water that just either collects in puddles and evaporates or runs off and then evaporates in rentention ponds. All of that water used to seep down into the soil and build up the water table before these suburbanites decide to pave everything over. Now not only are there more people than ever clamoring for water, but there is also less land than ever before for rain fall to permeate and help build the water tables. Urban planners in the Atlanta suburbs and exurbs must be amongst the most unintelligent, short-sighted folks I've ever seen; I could have seen water shortages coming years in advance. Why couldn't they? Even if (hopefully) a major December hurricane were to slam into the southeast and drop a foot of rain into Atlanta's reservoirs, those normal lake levels would still decline at a more rapid rate than they ever had at any other time in history.

Suffice to say I'll be chaining myself to a buoy here in Scranton if they ever try trucking OUR lake water down South to quench the thirst of people who had little long-range planning foresight and couldn't care less until it was too late. Why hasn't the phrase "smart growth" permeated the minds of folks in the South yet?

[Pragmaniac]

Originally Posted by ScrantonWilkesBarre

Why hasn't the phrase "smart growth" permeated the minds of folks in the South yet?

A flood of economic refugees pouring into an area probably leaves little time to plan for smart growth.

[I'minformed2]

Originally Posted by jp03

Charlotte 79 today and sunny,,,

Dought condition for over half of NC...."excpetional". Enjoy that nice weather is it takes you further and further into the worst drought conditions the area has seen in recorded history, and apparently according to some archaeologists, much much longer. Temps that warm may be nice in October/Nocember and March/April when its cool here....but around Chrismas time? No thanks, you can keep it. I don't know about Charlotte but Raleigh's about 5 years from an economic/housing/infrastructural bubble burst even if the drought conditions do get better (See; South Florida). They're actually considering putting a halt to all new home construction in Raleigh soon if conditions don't improve. There goes about 12% of the economy of the region (Imagine 2 Kodaks shutting completely down...or Bethelem steel closing again). Can't imagine the condtions being too different in Charlotte.

[jp03]

Originally Posted by I'minformed2

Dought condition for over half of NC...."excpetional". Enjoy that nice weather is it takes you further and further into the worst drought conditions the area has seen in recorded history, and apparently according to some archaeologists, much much longer. Temps that warm may be nice in October/Nocember and March/April when its cool here....but around Chrismas time? No thanks, you can keep it. I don't know about Charlotte but Raleigh's about 5 years from an economic/housing/infrastructural bubble burst even if the drought conditions do get better (See; South Florida). They're actually considering putting a halt to all new home construction in Raleigh soon if conditions don't improve. There goes about 12% of the economy of the region (Imagine 2 Kodaks shutting completely down...or Bethelem steel closing again). Can't imagine the condtions being too different in Charlotte.

Your buttons are just to EASY to push.....

[jp03]

Originally Posted by ScrantonWilkesBarre

Scranton...2-4 inches of snow coming on Thursday. $2-4
...12 inches of snow coming on Sunday. $12
...more than two feet of snow this season by next week. $25
...having a White Christmas? PRICELESS!!!

hahha...ok, you enjoy SCRANTON!!!!