Best place to get a teaching job upstate? (Buffalo, Niagara Falls: salary, rent)

[Pootnami]

I currently live and teach on Long island. I work in a wealthy Nassau county school district and make a great salary, however I rent and commute about 45 minutes one way. I want to buy a house, but my max is around 400k. For that kind of money, I can't get what I want here. I would love a yard, possibly a lake. I realize the job situation is rough upstate. Plus, from what I have heard there are too many teachers. Is there anywhere I can go? I need to get off LI so I can breathe a bit easier, raise a family, and enjoy a slower pace of life. Thanks for any info you can give.

-I have ten years experience and teach elementary

[NYphil]

I hear the Mid-Hudson region is always looking for teachers. Secondhand information, from someone in a similar situation as you looking to move (she and husband are outside Philadephia.) I've never lived there but certainly like the area.

[itSmellsBAD]

Buffalo schools are hiring. Wage freeze and control board but hiring. How are your Martial Arts skills? Do you have a concealed carry pistol permit? $400K would buy you the best house in the whole city. We have a large Lake called Erie with Niagara Falls a few miles away.