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I've lived here my whole life - but am leaving as soon as wee can retire. My one son is already in Alabama. As much as I love what NY has to offer - it's just getting too expensive. Schools closing and my school taxes almost match my county taxes - they use to be less than half. Downstate deciding what's best for the rest of the state. Gun laws promoted by corrupt politicians.
Your not alone, go to your Facebook friends & twitter accounts, you'll see lots of them are in the process of leaving WNY too, many have already put their property's up for sale and some are fixing up & painting their homes & preparing to sell them. Most say the reason is, it's getting to expensive live in WNY too and don't see things changing for the better in their life time.
All Political Propaganda pay by local & state lobbyist's. COL is so low in WNY that's why
it has been bleeding & losing population after single year for the last 45 years and it's speeding up
every year. Last year alone, WNY lost 5,236 long term residents in just ONE YEAR and most of Buffalo NY looks like a zombie apocalypse has happened or it's a third world country, > For more details, Go to The Real Buffalo NY Thread
All Political Propaganda pay by local & state lobbyist's. COL is so low in WNY that's why
it has been bleeding & losing population after single year for the last 45 years and it's speeding up
every year. Last year alone, WNY lost 5,236 long term residents in just ONE YEAR
Again, that is likely an estimate and doesn't say anything about those that may have moved to the area. People may move due to retirement or their skills/education do not match what is available in the area's job market.
I believe that the population loss has slowed down as well.
With this said, it doesn't change the fact about the area's overall COL being below/around the national average. It doesn't have anything to do with political propaganda, but about home prices, which make up about 30% of overall costs. That is the biggest portion in terms of cost of living.
Again, that is likely an estimate and doesn't say anything about those that may have moved to the area. People may move due to retirement or their skills/education do not match what is available in the area's job market.
I believe that the population loss has slowed down as well.
With this said, it doesn't change the fact about the area's overall COL being below/around the national average. It doesn't have anything to do with political propaganda, but about home prices, which make up about 30% of overall costs. That is the biggest portion in terms of cost of living.
home prices, which make up about 30% of overall costs. That is the biggest portion in terms of cost of living
know I get it
You can buy a house for $1.00 in the City of Buffalo and their's 1,000's & 1,000's of them
Let's see you have the $1.00 dollars houses, Lots of $50,000 1950's 750sqft cape cods in the suburbs and then you have $350,000 mc mansion's in Clarence, Orchard Park, Lancaster, that are owned by Town, County & State government workers and that's how they come up with the median home price
Let's see you have the $1.00 dollars houses, Lots of $50,000 1950's 750sqft cape cods in the suburbs and then you have $350,000 mc mansion's in Clarence, Orchard Park, Lancaster, that are owned by Town, County & State government workers and that's how they come up with the median home price
No, it doesn't work like that and you have quite a bit in between.
It works like that in WNY, WNY's Economy is 99%, The people providing the service's & the people receiving the service's (that don't pay taxes)
That's not it either......
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and their's 1,000's & 1,000's of them
