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Nice to hear some positive remarks.... Snows plenty but it is part of the life style and they are experienced at keeping
roads clear. I predicted when they banned motor vehicle traffic in down town buffalo it would kill the area.....and I was correct... not the U Bee pseudo intellectuals who turned it into a boarded up ghost town. Finally they are opening it up. I remember when downtown was a hopping place. Hope it returns to normal.
Well, there are too many developers with too much vested personal interest in seeing their own assets prosper versus the region as a whole, so the "hopping downtown" is not likely. More than likely the developers with the greatest pull will get their pet projects going but there won't be a cohesive plan.
1) Some gentrification of city areas (slowly) and decline of others. The east side of Buffalo will slowly migrate to Cheektowaga, West Seneca and parts of SW Amherst.
2) Over building in Amherst, village of Williamsville area (as Cheektowaga and most of Sheridan strip have been exhausted / over-built and now vacant)
3) People will move further out to Clarence / Lancaster and will take some retail with them, leaving behind more empty strip plazas.
4) Population loss in WNY will have steadied, as points south and east see their infrastructure costs rise (and jobs not that great in value or quantity) so too will cost of living making WNY a more appealing place to live (comparatively) but that won't be for another 20 years or so.
All this is a way to exploit migration patterns and profit from Americans buying and selling crap rather than creating a sustainable lifestyle.
Forget the high taxes argument, you think they are practically giving homes away here compared to long island, the taxes are more than offset by low stable housing prices.
Actually, AAA estimates that the full cost of owning a car is from $8000 to $10,000 annually. (And you know AAA is not in the business of playing up the disadvantages of car ownership!) So there is some serious money to be saved by living and working in an area that allow you to be a one (or even no) car household.
you cant ditch the car automatically by living in Buffalo. Ive worked downtown for 13 years and almost everyone ive ever worked with, buffalo or suburbanites...have cars. We dont have the mass transit systems required to have people not own a car. Don't mislead the OP.
you cant ditch the car automatically by living in Buffalo. Ive worked downtown for 13 years and almost everyone ive ever worked with, buffalo or suburbanites...have cars. We dont have the mass transit systems required to have people not own a car. Don't mislead the OP.
Automatically? No. You need to work close enough to home that you can do your daily commute by walking, bicycle, or public transit. But for many people it is entirely possible, and they will save substantial money by doing so. My family of four has one car, which works out just fine for us. My comment that you quoted was in response to genoobie, who pointed out that he has a five person household with one car. It is entirely feasible, under certain circumstances, to have a one or no car household in Buffalo.
Forget the high taxes argument, you think they are practically giving homes away here compared to long island, the taxes are more than offset by low stable housing prices.
Obviously, he has no clue of housing or COL on LI. Having come from there and with lots of family still there and in Jersey? I know the overvaluation of houses, the high taxes and the COL.
Nice to hear some positive remarks.... Snows plenty but it is part of the life style and they are experienced at keeping
roads clear. I predicted when they banned motor vehicle traffic in down town buffalo it would kill the area.....and I was correct... not the U Bee pseudo intellectuals who turned it into a boarded up ghost town. Finally they are opening it up. I remember when downtown was a hopping place. Hope it returns to normal.
When I came, there were 7 department stores downtown, the Main Place mall was full of specialty stores and the HSBC tower wasn't finished. Once they built the rail and took out what Buffalo needs most ( PARKING ! ) , the city dried up fast. My hubby, having grown up here even remember the trolleys and the building of the 33! The expressways were also part of the downfall: it divided the city into political chunks, into racial chunks and god only knows how else. Destroyed the Olmstead Parkways in many places which originally traversed the city -- look at old maps, pre-WWII.
We really do not snow that much -- this is a winter which is bad. [Syracuse usually gets the Snowball award... ] I was reading an "Out of the Past" in our local Bee Newspaper and it was 125 years ago, warning of how bad the winter continued to be. It is cyclical -- you get a pattern of good years, then bad, then good, etc. Frozen lake? No lake effect but colder and more snow from Canada. I'll keep the weather ( esp. the great cool summers) over other places. Plus, we will probably never need to ration water
Once they built the rail and took out what Buffalo needs most ( PARKING ! ) , the city dried up fast.
LOL - more than 50% of downtown Buffalo is parking! How much more do you need?
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you cant ditch the car automatically by living in Buffalo. Ive worked downtown for 13 years and almost everyone ive ever worked with, buffalo or suburbanites...have cars. We dont have the mass transit systems required to have people not own a car. Don't mislead the OP.
