carolinian - 01/04/08 23:58
It's the predictable cycle of

1. Place with cheap rent gets cool bohemian stores
2. Rich folks attracted to bohemian lifestyle move into bohemian place because they want to be hip
3. The low rent that attracted the bohemians stops being low
4. Bohemians move to a new place with cheap rents.

Elmwood Village is in stage 3.

drew - 01/04/08 23:45
Wow. We didn't pay NEAR that much.

I'm not so worried about Elmwood, but I haven't been here long enough to know what I'm talking about.

empireoflight - 01/04/08 23:17
Any major city downtown costs 5x what you get in buffalo, at least. It's a landlord's dream, "city living" at affordable prices, but what you get is 90% riff raff that can't afford to spend any money at the shops and richies from the burbs that get turned off by said riff raff and won't touch downtown commerce with a stick.

paul - 01/03/08 18:17
Really, I thought they were too expensive, that is why I moved away from elmwood. We though about buying a house in the village but I wasn't willing to pay over $200,000 for an average size house near the strip.

Here is a perfect example at :::link::: going for $215,000 in the elmwood village. Here is another at $229,000 :::link:::

I can't believe the prices actually now. I paid the same thing as this little allentown house :::link:::

And really is someone going to pay $229,000 for 372 Prospect :::link:::

empireoflight - 01/03/08 17:41
The problem is property values are far too low to support loaded clientelle needed to fuel a true "hopping" neighborhood. Maybe if property values skyrocketed somehow, deadbeat landlords would sell and rentals would become single-families.

joshua - 01/03/08 09:54
That is why I thought the whole thing about Elmwood Village being one of the top 10 'hoods in the nation was completely bogus and manufactured. In my 7 years of living here I've never seen so many empty commercial properties between Forest and North, not to mention several other properties that have always been revolving doors and jinxed real estate, now occupied presently or formerly by Sahara Grill, Falafel Bar, Brodo (anybody remember Flour Power?), whatever Elmwood Panhandler is now, whatever Elmwood Bagel Shoppe will be, the former New World Records - I could go on and on. We do have some serious success stories in the neighborhood, and I am not glossing over them, but the idea of Elmwood being a stable community is an illusion.

What makes me angrier is that people and orgs like... well... Buffalo Rising are complicit in this overt dramatization because its good for their member businesses and advertising revenue. The "strip" is still the place to be in this area as far as I'm concerned though, and I'd never live outside of a block or two from where I am now if I could help it... I do like Ashland, Lancaster and many of the side streets. It would be a radical lifestyle change for me if I actually had to get in my car or take long ass walks in the snow every time I needed a gallon of milk. I have to be honest - if I couldn't stumble out the front door every time I wanted coffee I'd be devastated!

james - 01/03/08 00:46
shit's fucked in Buffalo? Get out of town!

I am willing to bet a few landlords need to die before all the sore spots are fixed. And friend, I just might be willing to do the deadly deed.

james - 01/03/08 12:41
"It's like a meat french fry"

SOLD!

jbeatty - 01/02/08 23:26
I love smelts. I just made them for the first time a few weeks ago. It's like a meat french fry!

pyrcedgrrl - 01/04/08 23:36
Okay, I'm going to try to remember all of this b/c it was about 3 years ago. When I was having my tummy pain my first attack had be doubled over. I went to the ER and it subsided--the doctor glanced at me and said, 'I don't even need to do any tests. You have gastritis" and gave me Nexium, which my insurance refused to cover. 3 days later- had a sonogram which showed nothing. another week later- another attack, could barely move, slept on a heating pad b/c the pain went through to my back. Went to the ER 3 times in 3 days and was sent home each time b/c the first Dr. had told me NOT to take painkillers, so as soon as they gave me painkillers I felt better. :)
Finally, Christmas day after working a midnight while unable to hold even water down, I went to the ER again. They did a CT scan which showed "a small bile duct stone" which they deemed able to stay in until my doctors office opened 2 days later. Gave me a prescription--pharmacy was closed. :) FINALLY called my surgeon that had performed my gastric bypass years earlier from the empty parking lot of Rite Aid, bawling my eyes out. He told me to go to Sister's Hospital. (which is where I had the surgery performed)

Went to Sister's a couple hours later. The Triage nurse took one look at me and told me I was being admitted. I had jaundice. (apparently yellow skin and eyes was not enough indication that I needed help for St. Mary's Hosp.) I had bright orange urine, which was fun. :)
A small partially-sedated procedure 2 days later and i was perfect...except for the itchy jaundicy skin which lasted for 2 mos. YUCK.

I have NO idea if this will help you in any way, but you need to DEMAND some kind of a scan, first off. CT, sonogram...SOMETHING. An x-ray will not show most of what could be wrong w/ you (IE: your guts). I was told after I had my blown ACL ligament x-rayed that that is does not show soft tissue. (have no idea if this is true)

You need to KEEP CALLING THE DOCTOR. Keep on their asses. There is NO REASON why you should still be sitting there in pain with no relief after all this time!!!!!!

You need to DEMAND BLOOD WORK. This should have been one of their first priorities. It can show them so much and help with diagnosis.

You need to pretend you're an IRATE ITALIAN like me to light a fire under their asses. ;)
--I give lessons--cheap! :)

I truly hope you feel better soon, I just think it's totally moronic that they have not taken care of the basic, bottom line procedures before moving on to a colonoscopy. I think I missed what happened before..the last post of yours i read you were drinking that phospho soda crap. Did that procedure show nothing? Grr.

I hope your doctor gets his head out of his ass soon. You're in my thoughts.

~Dana

mrdeadlier - 01/01/08 02:31
2007 is behind us. Better circumstances in 2008, I promise!

leetee - 12/31/07 18:49
When we were at New World Record today (just waiting for our chinese food next door, actually), i saw a bin of stuffed toys. They were germs... one was a stomach ache. Almost got it for you... but i wasn't sure what they were stuffed with and what kind of allergic reaction you might have to that. Still, i thought you would find it amusing to get a stuffed stomach ache germ with plastic eyes...

paul - 12/31/07 17:10
I just left work. Miraculously, (okay a lot of care and time from me) it looks like it is working and people are successfully using it - at least according to my log files.

metalpeter - 12/31/07 16:46
I wish I had those drugs you needed if I did I would bring them. In terms of the computer stuff I don't really know what it is. But I know it shouldn't be changed in the middle of the day. I could see having who ever does it come in early or at a time when what ever the program or system or what ever it is will hardly be used. Then send out a memo to everyone with an e-mail or some other kind of in house mail system so that everyone knows that if there is a problem or if something has changed who to get in contact with for help or for there issue. It sure would be nice if they could have done it on say friday and then had an entire day to test it and then the weekend also. I don't deal with much software doing my job. But every year there is a new form of UPS software and when we last got Fed Ex software it said that it wasn't compaitable with vista. When they updated some stuff in the office I was hoping that they weren't going to change my computer on me and ad vista on my day off. I have no idea what the changed on the office computers. But when ever things are changed I get a little Nervous. Part of my job if the computer doesn't work there is no way to do it by hand. I hope that at both parties you are able to have a good time. Hopefully at your place some crazy fun stuff happens and that will make you feel better. Then the next time you are having a bad day you can look at the pictures and brighten your day.

jason - 12/31/07 16:31
I am pretty shocked that "they" would even be willing to release the new version under those circumstances. We would never ever ever do that.

james - 12/31/07 14:44
Well, happy new year to you. Man that sucks.

kookcity2000 - 12/30/07 21:28
does the American version come with the little handcrank generator?

jim - 12/29/07 14:18
I tried one, and it was pretty cool but my fingers are too big for the keyboard.