Buffalo NY 3rd Most Distressed City in the US

[jennifer7]

Buffalo NY Ranked 2017 the 3rd most Distressed City in the US, https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/...nities/541044/

[jennifer7]

Buffalo NY Ranked 2017 the 3rd most Distressed City in the US, https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/...nities/541044/

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[jennifer7]

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You think with Buffalo having the highest taxes in the country that keeps going up every year & Gilbert having the lowest taxes that stays the same and even gets lower sometimes has something to do with it ?


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[WNYresident]

Buffalo (northeast) has a few things going against it other than just bad politics, service monopolies and wasteful spending.

Weather come into play. Years before A/C was invented if you were down south you were hot 24/7. With A/C the south was still hot but now you could live in comfort.

[jennifer7]

Buffalo (northeast) has a few things going against it other than just bad politics, service monopolies and wasteful spending.

Weather come into play. Years before A/C was invented if you were down south you were hot 24/7. With A/C the south was still hot but now you could live in comfort.

Columbus Ohio is in the NE and is booming, Pittsburgh PA & Allentown PA seems to be doing pretty good, just to name a couple
Only time I put the AC on is from mid June to Sept. from 5pm to 7pm, because the newer houses are energy efficent , and I never use the AC in my cars & suv. I always have the windows down & the sun roofs open

[jennifer7]

NYS just started airing a set of new commericals about it's the new NYS, new Low Taxes, They show and tells whats going in Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Binghamton, Elmira & Poughkeepsie etc... What's missing is Buffalo & Niagara Falls.

[jennifer7]

It's getting that time of the year again for each Erie County Town & Village to announce their yearly raising property tax increase and they wil say were only raising property taxes ___ % because we made cuts (bunch of BS) other wise the tax increase would have much higher LOL

[WNYresident]

NYS just started airing a set of new commericals about it's the new NYS, new Low Taxes, They show and tells whats going in Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Binghamton, Elmira & Poughkeepsie etc... What's missing is Buffalo & Niagara Falls.

Some of the commercials are misleading. They fail to mention "new low taxes" are based on incentives while other business/property owners are still the highest taxed in the area.

[grump]

Buffalo (northeast) has a few things going against it other than just bad politics, service monopolies and wasteful spending.

Weather come into play. Years before A/C was invented if you were down south you were hot 24/7. With A/C the south was still hot but now you could live in comfort.

Rather ironic that the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, named after the company that made business growth in the south comfortable, isn't air conditioned and was hotter than the ovens of Hell for Paul McCartney last Saturday.

[Save Us]

Columbus Ohio is in the NE and is booming, Pittsburgh PA & Allentown PA seems to be doing pretty good, just to name a couple
Only time I put the AC on is from mid June to Sept. from 5pm to 7pm, because the newer houses are energy efficent , and I never use the AC in my cars & suv. I always have the windows down & the sun roofs open

Allentown is a S....hole. but Pittsburgh is the bomb!
Buffalo is about 20 years behind jus about any city I can think of even Allentown.

[HipKat]

When is the last time you've been to Buffalo, Jennifer?

[grump]

You don't have to come to Buffalo to know that the city is a wasteland. The statistics back it up every step of the way. You want to talk poverty rate? You want to talk crime? You want to talk miserable schools? You want to talk grossly high taxation? You want to talk a declining population? You want talk bogus "economic development "?

[WNYresident]

Grump... how do you really feel

[jennifer7]

When is the last time you've been to Buffalo, Jennifer?

2 years ago and canal side looks like the city dumps and not one penny of private investment anywhere says it all
and the streets & roads falling apart everywhere,

[jennifer7]

You don't have to come to Buffalo to know that the city is a wasteland. The statistics back it up every step of the way. You want to talk poverty rate? You want to talk crime? You want to talk miserable schools? You want to talk grossly high taxation? You want to talk a declining population? You want talk bogus "economic development "?

Come out to the desert and enjoy the Good life, lots of lakes, rivers & beaches in AZ too www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MwpnE1TeiIrl and you can go swimming, boating jet skiing & skiing in the same day in AZ too www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgpIlKk5r7A