08/09/07 10:56 - ID#40465

worst of

... living in village/Buffalo (in no particular order),

1. public school system, especially bureaucratic administrators
2. parking, lack of, tickets (especially the one time you forget to alternate park on your own street)
3. Elmwood Avenue car traffic, including double-parked cars, waiting for left turning cars, poorly timed lights
4. crime
5. constant sirens (police, fire, ambulance)
6. absence of Dunkin' Donuts
7. lack meaningful public transportation
8. city hall, and I don't mean the architecture

ladycroft writes at 05:34:07 08/10/07 - Comment #22040: you know, i actually miss the sound of sirens. i became so acustomed to those sounds blasting down my street that i had trouble sleeping when i first got here.

joshua writes at 09:37:40 08/10/07 - Comment #22013: After looking at that list I realized that you could remove #7 and you'd basically have Washington DC., and if you remove #6 also then add in shitty people and filth... welcome to NYC. =)

I don't see the absence of Dunkin' Donuts as a bad thing to be honest... thats a bizarre downstate habit. Still though, there are in fact a handful of Dunkin' Donuts establishments to visit around here if you feel the urge. Actually now that I think about it, I drive right by one on a daily basis that was just built - Transit Rd. south of Wehrle but north of the thruway enterance/exit.

Welcome to our gestapo police force and their vigilance w/parking tickets. I used to enter rants all the time about how much I hate the city of Buffalo's police force, but at this point its cliche. Nobody needs to say anything anymore... its gotten to the level where its simply understood. Ha!

mimi writes at 11:28:38 08/09/07 - Comment #21995: I won't bike either street or sidewalk - tried to bike years ago and felt traumatized by car traffic, wore nerdy helmet.

tinypliny writes at 11:23:50 08/09/07 - Comment #21994: I admit it. I am a wimp and I just can't bring myself to ride on the road. It might be annoying to the other pedestrians, but atleast I won't go sprawling on the road with my bones broken and tendons ripped out - because some hideous car driver decided to door me or came too close because they were talking on the cellphone while driving. :/

drew writes at 11:16:15 08/09/07 - Comment #21991: bikes on sidewalks. I hate that. You are supposed to ride bikes on the road, but nobody on the strip gets that.

And neighbors screaming. But that only happens sometimes.

tinypliny writes at 11:09:53 08/09/07 - Comment #21987: hmmmm... I think Elmwood doesn't necessarily run on what the rest of the country does, so that might not really qualify as a "worst-of" point. :)

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08/09/07 10:47 - ID#40463

best of

...living in village/Buffalo, (not necessarily in any particular order)

1. friendly neighbors and friends
2. good eats, drinks
3. nice parks
4. sidewalks for walking and gawking
5. historical architecture (commercial and residential)
6. short travel time to and from hockey, baseball, theatre, museums, botanical gardens, zoo
7. sewer system
8. garbage totes
9. gardens and small yards
10. low property taxes, inexpensive housing
11. firemen who look good and fit, in addition to being heroic
12. (e:strip)

Tifft Nature Preserve, November 2006