Anyone lived in/ know buffalo NY well?

[Maximus]

Just wondering, it might be an option for a job.

[YOhio]

Chicken wings, Bills, Niagara Falls, cheap rx drugs from Canada, Hill Cumorah Pageant, etc. What's not to love? If you start a Thanks, Buffalo! thread I promise to actively participate.

[Moliere]

I've been there once. It was cold and it was only in the fall! Seemed like a nice town, small compared to Houston. Great wings at the Anchor Bar. That's pretty much all I got. I have a good friend that lives there. I can hook you up if you really need more info.

[hostile]

My little brother lives there now. Finished grad school at SUNY Buffalo and got a job keeping him there. He and his wife seem to like it.

[myboynoah]

My brother married a girl from near Rochester and they now live in St. Louis. Also, a guy here went to school in Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo I think, several years ago. Finally, we went to the HCP one year and the weather was pretty nice.

Sorry, that's all I got.

[clackamascoug]

My roommate at DT in 1977 was from Buffalo. When his father inquired of the safety of the neighborhood, the realtor replied that it was the safest street in town, as the local Mafia Boss lived next door on the cul-de-sac. His Dad loved the idea of living next to a real life mobster.

Other than that... there's this thing called "the lake effect" which is more like a plague than an effect.

[FN Phat]

run the other way...far, far away. It is damn cold and grey for 3/4 of the year and the lake effect snow, and wind, is brutal at times. Western New York is fine at times...mostly from June-August. And Bills fans are insufferable pricks.

[Pinstripe]

I live a few hours away from Buffalo and make it over there occasionally. It's a decent size city and not too far from Toronto, which is a nice place to visit.

As it has already been mentioned, the weather and scenery is beautiful during the summer and fall, but winter is a bitch and seems to last 5 to 6 months some years. If that doesn't bother you, I think it's a fine place to live.

[FN Phat]

I live a few hours away from Buffalo and make it over there occasionally. It's a decent size city and not too far from Toronto, which is a nice place to visit.

As it has already been mentioned, the weather and scenery is beautiful during the summer and fall, but winter is a bitch and seems to last 5 to 6 months some years. If that doesn't bother you, I think it's a fine place to live.

I haven't been to Toronto since I was much younger but it left an impression then. I would love to go back to visit.

[Uncle Ted]

I live a few hours away from Buffalo and make it over there occasionally. It's a decent size city and not too far from Toronto, which is a nice place to visit.

As it has already been mentioned, the weather and scenery is beautiful during the summer and fall, but winter is a bitch and seems to last 5 to 6 months some years. If that doesn't bother you, I think it's a fine place to live.

Sounds like a nice place to visit during the average 16 above 100 degree days in Dallas when the kids are out of school.

[Pelado]

My friend went to a Bills - Patriots game there. His opinion of the city was not favorable.

[Indy Coug]

Go for it.

[dabrockster]

Drove by Buffalo once on my way to the Pageant.. Looked like a pretty depressed city to me... At least from the Highway..

[Paperback Writer]

Drove by Buffalo once on my way to the Pageant.. Looked like a pretty depressed city to me... At least from the Highway..

Many years ago, the company I worked for had a major client in Buffalo. Over a period of about three years, I spent probably 6-9 months total in Buffalo and it was always from Oct.-April. My manager (and other executives) would travel to Buffalo in the summer and then call me back in Dallas for support (ranks does have its privileges). So that tells me that 1) Buffalo is nice in the Summer 2) Dallas is miserable in the summer

Anyway, Buffalo was depressing (as mentioned above) in the late Fall/Winter/Spring. I found the people OK-very blue collar even with the professionals I interacted with. Anchor Bar wings were also over rated. I'd have a lot more postivie things to say about Buffalo if I ever actually saw Lake Erie. When I was there, it was always frozen over with a few feet of snow so it looked like a giant emply field from the facility that I worked in which was right by Lake Erie. I'll add that the executives who visited there in the summer and stayed in much nicer hotels downtown had positive things to say about Buffalo. But it was like we were visiting two different cities. Never even made it to Niagra Falls in all my time there.

Edit: After re-reading and doing a quick Wiki on Buffalo, I was probably too hard on the place. There are many redeemable features of Buffalo, I just didn't have the opportunity to see very many of them. In the Wiki piece, it mentions Buffalo made the Top 10 in Forbes as "Best places to raise a family" for 2010 so it can't be that bad. I was in Buffalo during the mid-to-late 1990s during part of the Bills Super Bowl losing street. The Buffalo economy was struggling back then, it may have improved now.

Also, wanted to mention a funny story during one of my stays at one of the fine hotels in Buffalo. I was detained by hotel security because they mixed me up with Canadian Youth Hockey coach. I entered the hotel at 3:00 am after working 20 straight hours on a large computer application installation at the client site. Hotel security thought I was the Hockey coach based on security video (we looked similar) and was sneaking back to the hotel to retreive hockey gear that they had impounded. Evidently this Canadian youth Hockey team had destroyed several hotel rooms and damaged a hallway by playing hall-hockey and then left town. A month later, I was back at the same hotel and had to sign a form (as did all guests) that I was not affliated with a hockey team. I guess traveling hockey teams had such a bad reputation that they began passing themselves off as youth science clubs and stuff. Anyway, Buffalo reminded me of that strange incident.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

About 20ish years ago their NFL team made it all the way to the Super Bowl 4 straight times. Losing the first one in heartbreaking fashion, stupidly relying on a kicker. The rest I think were all blow out losses.