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Those plusses are all things either natural or built by people from prior generations. The negatives are all due to the current people living there.
I live near Baltimore, so I know a cesspool that is located in what once was a progressive city.
A true city that can survive and thrive needs HUMAN CAPITAL. Otherwise, it is just an archeological site.
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Anytime I am at a bar watching Direct Ticket with all the games on at the same time the worst fans are always Patriots fans. Brady can be 31 for 32 with 9 touchdowns and they still complain about the pass he threw away because no one was open.
Let's face it, you didn't pass through here. It is a pretty nice city.
I hate Buffalo fans.
it really is fantastically transparent how self-serving other fans criticisms of the Pats are.
No offense........ I lived in Rochester for over 40 years prior to moving out west . Visited buffalo 2-3 times a month (1-2 days at a time) for at least the last 15-18 years of it. It's an quick 60 miles away........ Beyond living there, I think I'm eminently qualified to comment about the area. It straight up sucks.... Plain and simple.
Architecture is cool, and the wings kick *****, but beyond that...... the city is a dump. I do not hate their fans either...... I just feel sorry for them. As for their team, I hate them...... just not nearly as much as the Jest, Raven, Broncos, ect.... you know....... teams that actually field competitive teams year after year.
That thread is actually sad to read. Have the posters seem ******ed in their hate that they can barely string a coherent sentence together. Seriously read it from front to back. It'll make you feel sad for the.
I agree. This is why I noted, "Great neighborhoods." Baltimore is a good comparison in that respect as it has gentrified neighborhoods (though it doesn't have Buffalo's aesthetic appeal). The poverty means crime in the poor areas. The center of Buffalo is rich with million dollar mansions, lots of arts, really good restaurants, etc. The Sabres are a plus. But dealing with a crooked City Hall makes the place less than ideal. The are a lot of negatives.
Your description, by the way, would apply to every city in the northeast except for New York and Boston. Then again, I liked Boston in the 1980s, when Newbury Street was rough & tumble, when a beer at the Pour House meant you were sitting next to a biker and not a yuppie in a suit. Central Square, I guess, is still charming in that way, but the Back Bay has gone the way of what I associate with midwestern malls.
It depends on how much northeastern grit you can take. I listed the cities I've lived in already, and found Buffalo to be better than them. I actually taught at the University of Rochester and decided to LIVE in Buffalo and commute the 50 miles every day!!! So, surprised to hear you lived in Rochester for 40 years. I lived there for 1 and decided to get out because at least stuff was happening in Buffalo. I did catch some games with the Patriots fan club out there.
Providence is a much nicer city now then when I first moved out of it in the early 90s.
I will give you that...... There is more happening in Buffalo, then ROC.... but that ain't zackly saying much
Fact is, both are dying upstate NY cities that were once much better then they are now. Pittsburgh and Cleveland have somewhat been able to revitalize themselves, and perhaps Buffalo will be able to as well. I'm not as well traveled (living wise) as you, but I now live in Albuquerque, NM and it blows Western NY out of the water in just about every way.
I can't speak for Buffalo but Providence has one of the most vibrant cultural scenes in the country per capita. RISD is a big reason for that of course. And I haven't seen a prettier urban area then College Hill. An awesome music scene as well, some of which comes from Warren, strangely enough. Say what you want about the crook, but CIanci really turned the city around in many respects. Unfortunately, the city is still broke and the school suck. I get sick of paying more than 10 grand a year in taxes for nothing and thus resulted in my sad Exodus to the suburbs.
I'm sure that was all fascinating for you for folks.
Let's face it, you didn't pass through here. It is a pretty nice city.
I hate Buffalo fans.
Eh, I couldn't live in Albuquerque, so to each his own. Pittsburgh has come up a lot, I agree, Cleveland has not, by comparison with Buffalo or Pitt. How long you been away? Not only was Buffalo once much better than it is now, it was also much worse.
They put a billion dollars into new projects recently, and they're all finished. It was private money, a lot of it from local developers, about half from out of the region. Now the state is jumping in with a billion. There has been a huge build up. Home values have skyrocketed over the last 5 years.
It is fascinating. I love Providence. I lived on Wickenden Street. I like College Hill. I was simply doing a comparison.
Providence has incredibly underrated ethnic food, like Apsara's to the south or Garibaldi's Mexican way up Federal Hill. I found the Italian food there to be wildly overrated, and I have a better Italian restaurant here in Buffalo and it's 100 meters from my house. I think the comparison with Buffalo simply has to do with the fact that Buffalo has fallen a long way from its status as one of the richest cities around, but the old bones still remain even as poverty here is pretty bad (it's like Providence in the sense that the city center has million dollar homes everywhere and the outskirts are very poor).
Boston used to be that way too until they started building all those places in the South End. I actually liked the new South End neighborhoods in Boston, but I remember practicing with my band there in the 1980s and being held up--instruments stolen.