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Old 07-31-2015, 03:05 PM
 
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How does Buffalo compare to NYC when it comes to public transportation, food, and entertainment?
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Old 07-31-2015, 11:49 PM
 
Location: Buffalo, NY
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Badly on all counts? If NYC is assumed to be 10 for all 3, then Buffalo might be a 3, 5, 3 by comparison?
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Old 07-31-2015, 11:51 PM
 
Location: Buffalo, NY
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But we're not comparing like for like here, at all. Buffalo would fare well vs. peer cities, or former peer cities, or future peer cities on food and probably entertainment and, given car-centric Sun Belt cities, public transport.
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Old 08-03-2015, 11:46 AM
 
Location: Buffalo/Utica NY
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There's the "Subway" that runs up and down Main St, the Buffalo Metro rail. It was envisioned to have over 30 miles of rail, but it only has about six.
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Old 08-05-2015, 01:14 PM
 
Location: Tonawanda NY
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Well we need to have new leadership in our transportation sector but it's usable and for the most part can get you were you need to go, not always were you want to go. Hospitals, malls, college campuses, entertainment are accessible by bus and the one train. Most employment is can be reached by bus also. Some limits with time schedules, I doubt the people creating the routes and timing has any training in mass transportation.

Food, we are exploding and growing outside of wings, subs, greasy pizza, fish fry. Fine dining is growing since the wealthy are coming out of the Buffalo Club, Chop House and the usual same ole places to eat. Service still sucks in most places because culturally, our local workers hate the idea of serving others and no one has trained the majority in the proper service style for fine dining. This is going to soon change with the creation of the Culinary Institute in Niagara Falls NY. Ethnic food establishments are growing in number and you can find really nice dishes all over now instead of hidden in a low income area of town. I won't be satisfied though until I find some yummy Moroccan food locally.

We are going to eventually become famous with the number of breweries and distilleries in our region, they keep popping up. I don't even like beer, ales, etc but we are invited to these openings and tastings and I have discovered some of that stuff is GOOD! Flying Bison comes to mind as a place I liked.

Entertainment, depends on what you want to be entertained by. We have it all. We have some of the same Broadway shows during theatre season at Shea's. Many theatres for plays, plays in the park. As for concerts, we get almost all the popular artist on tour.
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Old 08-08-2015, 12:50 PM
 
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If you live in the vity or right on a stable bus line, You basically have transport from about 6 am to 11 pm. Outside of those hours? Very erratic, some not at all. Suburban route are less. ( check NFTA website)

Food? If you are buying, you can get extremely good food in Wegmans and ethnic markets. You can get standard food anywhere. Eating out? In the past few years, the diversity of restaurants has really expanded, somewhat due to immigrants. If you want upscale dining, we are not NYC, but it is here. Everything is also cheaper than NYC.

Entertainment is diverse. Again, not in the amount of NYC, but we have it in all facets. (Look Up the Gusto Section of the Buffalo News - you will get a wide range of what is going on)

POINT BEING: NYC has many millions of people. You are dealing with a city of way under a million in Buffalo. For the number of people here, I think it has more entertainment available to the "average person" than NYC does at a better price.
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Old 08-14-2015, 01:56 PM
 
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Public transportation will feel very limited to someone that is used to MTA,LIRR,PATH and other conveniences like Lyft/Uber(which is banned in buffalo).
Other than the bus, the single line light-rail does a short stretch from downtown to UB south campus(main street).

For food, i would say Buffalo scales in a 2 if we were to score the city a 10. There are some decent restaurants here and there but def not ethnically diverse. On the flip side, wegmans has a nice presence in buffalo and is a fortune 500 top 100 company and have a very nice selection of groceries of local and organic variety.

Entertainment mostly consists of some theater and the garage bands the folks in allentown praise.
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Old 08-15-2015, 09:58 PM
 
Location: Southwestern Connecticut
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This is an impossible comparison to even attempt. And if you do try to attempt to compare then NYC simple beats Buffalo on all counts and keeps it down. Buffalo would be trying to punch out of it's weight class on such a comparison. NYC is compared to London, Tokyo, Paris, and other very large metro cities that are known on the world wide stage.

The definition of "average person" that BuffaloTransplant brings up would be entirely different. The NYC definition of "average person" could most likely afford the expensive entertainment of NYC. The "average person" in Buffalo would consider the "average entertainment" in NYC to be expensive to out of reach. Different cities, different scales, different everything.

With that said, Buffalo is a good city for it's weight class.
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Old 08-16-2015, 12:09 AM
 
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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I think that the real point is that ...........when people in Buffalo want quality entertainment, and superior dining they go to Toronto. The current exchange rates also help that situation. When the US dollar is worth $1.30 cdn, its not hard to resist. Safer, cleaner, and more attractive.

Jim B.
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Old 08-27-2015, 06:08 PM
 
Location: Flahrida
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Buffalo: Public Transportation = subway that goes nowhere, buses mostly in city and limited suburban service
Restaurants some decent ones but NYC is the gastronomic mecca
Entertainment = Shea's Buffalo for travelling Broadway productions, Shaw Festival In Niagara on the Lake vs Broadway.

Basically comparing one of the great cities in the world (NYC) to a city (Buffalo) that saw its peak 100 years ago. Better to compare NYC to LA, Dallas, Miami, London, Paris, Chicago, Toronto which is more of a realistic comparison.
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