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06/24/08 04:19 - 68ºF - ID#44769
Subway?
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06/09/08 05:15 - 85ºF - ID#44594
Apartments in Buffalo
It looks like I should focus on the Utica Ave. metro stop (do you call it metro or subway or light rail or train?). I'm looking for a studio, 1 br or 2 br (if i can find a roommate) that will accept 1 small dog and 1 cat. I'm downsizing from a house, so I have lots of stuff but I also plan on getting a storage unit so stuff storage isn't very important. I will need one parking spot. I can start renting as early as 8/1 and as late as 8/15. I think my rent range is about 500-550, up to 650 with all utilities but that's stretching things. I've got tentative plans to visit Buffalo either 6/26 or 6/27 to check stuff out. Linwood looks like a great option.
I must admit, I'm used to my brand new kitchen, dishwasher and garbage disposal, washer & dryer on second floor next to my huge bedroom... but of course I'll be living on a student budget and expect to downscale considerably. Um... how do I provide references when I haven't rented in 10.5 years?
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06/04/08 09:47 - 64ºF - ID#44547
Churches, bars, daycares and more...
I currently share office space with a roofing contractor and a daycare/preschool owner. We also work on our nonprofit org from there. I wish I had an estrip.org type platform for my town! I'm just not sure how many people would write fairly consistently.
One of the joys of where I live is that I can walk to my neighborhood bar and the grocery store. My nonprofit is partly focused on revitalizing our downtown (like the Elmwood Village campaign but on a much smaller scale - our population is about 1500) and I really do value walkability. I lived in the DC suburbs from Silver Spring to Laurel and I don't want to have to drive everywhere again. I've got a bike (with basket for the puppy) but I've never ridden in a city.
(e:imk2) asked why I'm moving to Buffalo... graduate school. I plan to show up 8/15. Uh... I guess I need to find housing before then... would you consider craigslist a good option for looking? the weekly housing section of the newspaper? or is it best to spend some time in Buffalo and look in person?
(e:joshua) - I'm in Tioga County *waves*
all - thanks so much for the warm welcome and advice!
My next question: Is there a practical public transportation option from Elmwood to UB North? Or should I look for carpools? Or just expect to drive?
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06/04/08 12:12 - 66ºF - ID#44542
Hello!!!
I'll be moving in August, hopefully to the Elmwood area. Got any apartment suggestions for me? I've got two pets - Nisha, a quiet 1.5 year old toy poodle and China Cat Sunflower, a sweet fat lazy black cat. I'll be very sad to leave my elderly grey tiger cat Kitten (17-19 years old) but she needs the stability of our current housing situation and easy access to the outdoors. The closer to Lexington Market the better.
Currently I'm a geek for hire, specializing in QuickBooks and small business financial and IT consulting. I'd love to find an office to hang out in - I'm handy to have around and we can trade my services for space.
I'm so excited about moving! I lived in the DC/Baltimore area for nearly nine years, then moved "home" to northcentral Pennsylvania in 2003. I've missed good food and diversity the most. I'll miss the intergenerational long-term relationships from here...
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to further that, i say that there does seem to be a snob factor and elitist attitude towards public transportation. not just here, but in a lot of places. other than giant cities like new york, chicago, paris, london... hell, even toronto.
gross? just hit toronto subways after a game with all the drunk jock guys pissing onto the tracks. or how about some seedy areas of london, where the blokes don't even bother to get off the train to piss. on a hot summer day, with at least 12 hours to go before maintence gets round to cleaning. now THAT'S gross!
I'm totally with ya on the attitude! I'm most familiar with the super-clean, tourist-friendly DC metro & metrobusses but how bad could Buffalo NFTA be??
The tube is great. I am quoting myself verbatim from some other blog I posted on recently (because I am lazy and I should really not be stalking (e:strip) at this time, but I am. :P):
Going with a flawed preconception that Buffalo's public transport is bad is the underlying reason why cars have become a "necessity". Have you ever lived in a place where there is no metro? (Hint: Neighbouring Rochester, for instance?) Compared to such a place, Buffalo's public transport is a dream! There is a train every 12 minutes or less. If you are not too much of a snob to share sitting spaces with some of the less-privileged, travelling in the metro is one of the most convenient things to do. I know people have told me in the past that it is unsafe. But after a year of living here, I have no evidence to substantiate this ominous sounding warning. I am close to attributing all this paranoia of attacks to a lack of common sense. Any public transport, even in the world's safest cities becomes unsafe, if you dress up to the nines, attract a lot of attention to yourself by being peculiarly a model representative of the wealthy or the privileged. You are in *public transport*. Behave and act like public, not the elite. It does NOT require a lot of effort, just some sense of surroundings. That being said, I use the metro quite regularly and I have seen a lot of suited-booted people in there. It's not the warzone it is made out to be. Not even close. Again, my definition of a warzone comes from a somewhat crazy city where I lived for 2 straight years. Plus, the buses here actually connect to all the most important places and in fact, most places of interest. If you live out in the boondocks suburbs and then complain about the lack of buses and public transport, then, you have the definition of public transport quite wrong. The "public" does not usually live in far off inaccessible suburbs.