live in Canada, commute to East Aurora?

[Dockwalliper]

Don't forget, Fort Erie is the home of the famous "Canadian Ballet".

[iTravelots]

East Aurora is in a time warp....it's only a matter of time before your little fairy tale village is a ghost town. Last time I checked (few months ago), those vacant store fronts seem to be on the rise.

Unless you get some progressives on your Council, you are doomed just like the rest of Erie County. Erie County is one of the ONLY Counties in the ENTIRE United States of America to LOSE POPULATION the last 10 years!!!!! What does that say???

Tell your Politicians in several months when you buy those NEW license plates that you HAVE to buy. Instead of bashing people on city-data.com, you might want to start talking to your Politicians.....there definitely is a plethora of them per capita for an area losing people. The problem is that those that haven't left are drinking the Kool-Aid for way too long.

[SCVDon]

Originally Posted by iTravelots

East Aurora is in a time warp....it's only a matter of time before your little fairy tale village is a ghost town. Last time I checked (few months ago), those vacant store fronts seem to be on the rise.

Unless you get some progressives on your Council, you are doomed just like the rest of Erie County. Erie County is one of the ONLY Counties in the ENTIRE United States of America to LOSE POPULATION the last 10 years!!!!! What does that say???

Tell your Politicians in several months when you buy those NEW license plates that you HAVE to buy. Instead of bashing people on city-data.com, you might want to start talking to your Politicians.....there definitely is a plethora of them per capita for an area losing people. The problem is that those that haven't left are drinking the Kool-Aid for way too long.

Seems that you have an agenda that has nothing to do with living in Erie County, E. Aurora or anyplace outside a socialist state. E. Aurora was my high school's main rival (Orchard Park HS) and yet I never saw it as anything but a great place to live. Erie County like many North East areas and states are losing population due to taxes and job loss. I grew up in WNY in a progressive district - if you think Jack Kemp was a "progressive" congressman. I now live in "PROGRESSIVE" California and can't wait to leave. Taxes are out of this world, the state is broke and the progressive answer is to raise taxes even more - the low 9.75% sales tax isn't going to last much longer, I guess? I live in a "SAFE" city as far fro LA as I can get and that means that the gangs just drop their bodies along the freeways and not the shoot locals all that often unless we object to getting car jacked. The gangs and drugs are everywhere and you can't go downtown LA at night. Foreclosed homes are driving home prices down to "reasonable" prices of $400K for a two-bedroom condo and $800K for a small home unless you live 40 miles from crime ladden "diverse" LA-LA. Cost of living is insane. It cost us nearly $600 to register our new car's plates and that was before the Terminator doubled car registration. Can't wait to see our cost next year. Joy.

So I long for the Kool-aid of the simple life of living in WNY. People were polite, drugs and gangs didn't exist plus big doings was going to crystal beach for the the rides. If you wanted fun you went to CPG on Main St. or any number of bars on Elmwood. Great jazz at the "T" under the Stuffed Mushroom. Got wild by driving down along the lake to "Mickey Rats" for some music and dancing. Smelling the cows in the fields going to S. Boston for fresh cider in the fall.

[Canerican]

Progressives? We've had Liberals running Erie county for the past 50 years. I don't care which party, both have the same agenda, tax the rich, tax the poor, spend more money, raise their own salary, pay off the unions.

Now are you talking about Progressivism as in the way it was used in the early part of the 20th century, people like Theodore Roosevelt? It's different from Liberalism, but I'd imagine that you are saying that we need more Liberals here in New York.

We have more than our share, a Conservative Republican elected to a county-wide often is almost never seen. We've had Joel Giambra (who was a Democrat before and after his terms), now Chris Collins who is a moderate. There are a few moderately Conservative folks serving in the Amherst area, but that's really it.

Now, if you mean progressive by forward thinking (like you mentioned, next April we will have another $25 tax so we can get new plates, nothing progressive there) then I'm all with you!

I'm honestly sick of both parties here. I don't care which party takes charge at the local level, just as long as they cut taxes.

So, as an Amherst resident, any but Alice Kryzan for supervisor. Kryzan wants to raise Amherst taxes even higher than they are... as if residents need another excuse to get out.

[Port North]

Originally Posted by SCVDon

Seems that you have an agenda that has nothing to do with living in Erie County, E. Aurora or anyplace outside a socialist state. E. Aurora was my high school's main rival (Orchard Park HS) and yet I never saw it as anything but a great place to live. Erie County like many North East areas and states are losing population due to taxes and job loss. I grew up in WNY in a progressive district - if you think Jack Kemp was a "progressive" congressman. I now live in "PROGRESSIVE" California and can't wait to leave. Taxes are out of this world, the state is broke and the progressive answer is to raise taxes even more - the low 9.75% sales tax isn't going to last much longer, I guess? I live in a "SAFE" city as far fro LA as I can get and that means that the gangs just drop their bodies along the freeways and not the shoot locals all that often unless we object to getting car jacked. The gangs and drugs are everywhere and you can't go downtown LA at night. Foreclosed homes are driving home prices down to "reasonable" prices of $400K for a two-bedroom condo and $800K for a small home unless you live 40 miles from crime ladden "diverse" LA-LA. Cost of living is insane. It cost us nearly $600 to register our new car's plates and that was before the Terminator doubled car registration. Can't wait to see our cost next year. Joy.

So I long for the Kool-aid of the simple life of living in WNY. People were polite, drugs and gangs didn't exist plus big doings was going to crystal beach for the the rides. If you wanted fun you went to CPG on Main St. or any number of bars on Elmwood. Great jazz at the "T" under the Stuffed Mushroom. Got wild by driving down along the lake to "Mickey Rats" for some music and dancing. Smelling the cows in the fields going to S. Boston for fresh cider in the fall.

I hear ya buddy! I would love to be able to live in a quiet simple place like East Aurora. I wouldn't mind paying $8,000 in taxes for a decent home in a solidly safe neighborhood that reminds me of America past, it would be well worth it! I already pay $9,000 in taxes to live in a shoebox in Long Island and have to put up with the B.S. that goes with it.

I don't understand this stupid mini-culture war in WNY between the urban Elmwood crowd and the Ex-urban McMansion crowd. If I lived in WNY I would enjoy both the shops and arts of the city as well as the space and high quality of life of places like East Aurora. Once you've lived in the wider world you can appreciate both.

[Sumermarie]

Originally Posted by iTravelots

East Aurora is in a time warp....it's only a matter of time before your little fairy tale village is a ghost town. Last time I checked (few months ago), those vacant store fronts seem to be on the rise.

Unless you get some progressives on your Council, you are doomed just like the rest of Erie County. Erie County is one of the ONLY Counties in the ENTIRE United States of America to LOSE POPULATION the last 10 years!!!!! What does that say???

Tell your Politicians in several months when you buy those NEW license plates that you HAVE to buy. Instead of bashing people on city-data.com, you might want to start talking to your Politicians.....there definitely is a plethora of them per capita for an area losing people. The problem is that those that haven't left are drinking the Kool-Aid for way too long.

Hmm, can you site your sources on this please?

[BuffaloTransplant]

The license plate issue is Gov. Paterson's bright idea -- from $10 to $25. County Clerk Hochul is peitioning against it Unfortunately, she -- nor anyone else -- is really trying to correct the state budget.

Simple solution to state budget woes is to vote for not the progressives ( they are just another name for liberals -- they like to give things away) -- but to go opposite to conservative or libertatian.

[aufox]

Haha all of my family lives in East Aurora, and then there's my parents who moved out to Alden before I was born. East Aurora is a very cute little town, and they're so freaking proud of it it's sickening! I say that with love, because I spent most of my childhood there...it's true.