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Old 11-27-2016, 08:53 AM
 
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Buffalo is not the size of either Houston or Dallas. The galleria is fine.
and Buffalo & WNY is shrinking everyday,
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Old 11-27-2016, 08:55 AM
 
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and Buffalo & WNY is shrinking everyday,
Thanks for pointing that out, I did notice the streets look a little narrower
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Old 11-27-2016, 12:59 PM
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I don't think it's a dinosaur. It's thriving and has very few empty stores. It's busy most of the time and I go there frequently. It had loads of Canadian shoppers. You can't compare Buffalo to Dallas or Houston. Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area (commonly referred to as DFW), has a population of 7,102,796 or Houston which is the most populous city in Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States.
I have not heard of young people getting into fights. They instituted a "parental escort policy" which seems to have alleviated the problem. There are fights at many malls and its not a Buffalo only problem.
It is a good thing they came up with a program to keep bored youths out of the mall, causing trouble.

The fights were all over the media in WNY when I was up there to visit family last year. They are well documented on youtube as well.

There was also a teen who was standing on the escalator who tumbled some 15-20 feet onto a concrete floor because he was playing around trying to ride the rail of the escalator like a surf board.

I know that they were fighting to keep the bus stop out of the Galleria mall because it attracted youths who want to cause trouble, but there was a big fight about that. I did not hear what side won that battle.

A couple years ago we went to Galleria buffalo, and found it to be rather ghetto, but then this past year we went back and they added a number of Luxury stores, and certain wings of the mall felt rather upscale. They did a nice job on parts of it.

We had a pretty good meal at Gordon Biersch that is a good chain.

They have to be careful, as Cheektowaga in general is changing, and not in a good way. Family members I know had to sell their homes because it is becoming dangerous in certain areas. It is rather sad to see, as when I was growing up in the 1980's it was a pretty nice working class suburb, with hard working blue collar folks.

Many of the retail stores on Walden had closed right before I left for NY. There are many vacant structures in what should be PRIME retail location, due to the amount of traffic on walden, and proximity to the Galleria mall.

Not everybody knows, but if you go down walden a few miles you are right in the middle of the ghetto, and that level of poverty is getting into Cheektowaga unfortunately.
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Old 11-27-2016, 01:13 PM
 
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There are still stable areas of Cheektowaga. It isn't ALL ghetto...
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Old 11-27-2016, 03:27 PM
 
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There are still stable areas of Cheektowaga. It isn't ALL ghetto...


Cheektowaga is becoming another Buffalo, and the ghetto is spreading more & more into Cheektowaga
Even realtor's are even telling their clients to stay east of the I-90 and south of Broadway
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Old 11-27-2016, 05:32 PM
 
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and Buffalo & WNY is shrinking everyday,
Outstanding I hope everyone leaves the area.
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Old 11-27-2016, 06:49 PM
 
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Every single day you see more & more people on Facebook, Twitter, Vine, etc... that are in the process or are planing to leave WNY asap and alot have made page's on printrest with several pins on relocating, moving, and their new cities. Most say they are leaving because the lack of good jobs and say trying to find a good job in Buffalo is like hiting a brick wall, or trying to find a needle in a hay stack, many others are saying it's just to expensive to live in WNY any longer, with the super high cost of utility bills, fee's, regulation's and the skyrocketing property & school taxes. They just can't afford to live in WNY any longer. Another person said on their FB page "In Buffalo you work to pay the tax man" and enough is enough, hasta la vista Buffalo.

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Old 11-27-2016, 08:37 PM
 
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And some people leave but never get enough of coming back and telling everyone they left and how glad they are they left and how everything there sucked and and and and...

To quote the bard, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
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Old 11-28-2016, 07:27 AM
 
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Caseylegs why don't you start a Facebook page called Bash Buffalo? You can spend countless hours trashing our fair city and while you are at it how about #bashbuffalo on Twitter.
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Old 11-28-2016, 07:34 AM
 
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And some people leave but never get enough of coming back and telling everyone they left and how glad they are they left and how everything there sucked and and and and...

To quote the bard, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
Yeah, it is like dumping someone, but keeping their name in your mouth(as the kids say).
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