Buffalo For Real

[yaksplat]

http://www.buffalonews.com/business/article418965.ece

Fo' Realz....

anyone else cringing?

[buffy]

you get what you pay for...how about 'Buffalo: Come See for Yourself"
now that would boost tourisim

[buffy]

http://www.buffalonews.com/business/article418965.ece

Fo' Realz....

anyone else cringing?

it seems like the volunteers simply reworked the old "Buffalo: Land of no Illusions" motif

[jfc40ts]

it seems like the volunteers simply reworked the old "Buffalo: Land of no Illusions" motif

If that's so, maybe the owner of New Buffalo Graphics stands to make some money out of it...

[buffy]

We should be able to come up with a better slogan than "For Real" - that makes no sense, like it could possibly not be for real? I like 'come see for yourself" b/c we tend to get a bad rap. You think that's so? Come see it for yourself.

[buffy]

the more I think about this stupid slogan the more assinine it sounds. "For Real" is urban slang for "I am in complete agreement" now, think about it, when has Buffalo ever been in complete agreement? How about that Peace Brdige?

[yaksplat]

i see it as a derogatory question. Buffalo. For Real?

[buffy]

How about since Buffalo is ( for now) the 2nd biggest city in NYS...
Buffalo: the other New York city

[buffy]

no Buffaloes here, for real

[buffy]

Buffalo: City of Hood Neighbors

[WNYresident]

Incredible amount of potential in our area.

I don't understand "buffalo for real"... and I live here... how is someone from Idaho gonna know what "buffalo for real" means? Wasn't there a slogan for Buffalo like "Where life works?" ...WORKS themselves to the bone with high property taxes..

[nogods]

Incredible amount of potential in our area.

I don't understand "buffalo for real"... and I live here... how is someone from Idaho gonna know what "buffalo for real" means? Wasn't there a slogan for Buffalo like "Where life works?" ...WORKS themselves to the bone with high property taxes..

It'll rank right down there with the "talking proud" (apparently not about our eduction system though) campaign.

[Riven37]

Buffalo for Real speaks to me on how our ancestors build a city that is real, strong, and prosperous a city of trade well that is what Buffalo was back in the 1800’s until about what 1970’s or 80’s. Buffalo for Real is targeting one specific type of population and that is artsy type people those who are architects or students of architecture. The music type, the artist type, those people who can give Buffalo a better cultural base.

The Mayor and his group of developers are no trying to re-build this city which they should do from the ground up but we will never see this in our life time. Did you know only a small handful men were born in buffalo NY who became Mayor’s of Buffalo while many were transplanted visitors who stuck around a few years or so and placed their mark upon the city of Buffalo. If you who live in Buffalo, in the heart of the city run for Mayor and place your own ideas upon the city of Buffalo.

Anyway, the Real Buffalo is a city that is dirty looking, streets are filled with pot holes and the poor sections of Buffalo haven’t had a street re-paved in like 40 years. People litter the streets like their at home Buffalo at one time was a clean city everyday you could see those men pushing those blue trash cans with those big wooden wheels attached who kept the city (downtown) area and its neighborhoods clean. Today, all we can see is trashy streets, pot hole filled streets, buildings abandon, old building who’s been standing since 1900, neighborhoods depleted with populations leaving only unmanned homes. Our highways and express ways are in poor shape and are so out dated it hurts my eyes.

Buffalo for Real is not telling people the Real truth this city is dead, its old, its been dying for years and as the suburbs expand further outward the inner city grows smaller eventually it too will die. You want a Real city try thinking about bring business here, lower state taxes to foster Real living with good culture base don’t try to bring in people who living in the Arts why…the City of Buffalo needs so much more than bringing in a bunch of Art students…RE-BUILD BUFFALO for a REAL FUTURE.

[Achbek1]

Anyway, the Real Buffalo is a city that is dirty looking, streets are filled with pot holes and the poor sections of Buffalo haven’t had a street re-paved in like 40 years. People litter the streets like their at home Buffalo at one time was a clean city everyday you could see those men pushing those blue trash cans with those big wooden wheels attached who kept the city (downtown) area and its neighborhoods clean. Today, all we can see is trashy streets, pot hole filled streets, buildings abandon, old building who’s been standing since 1900, neighborhoods depleted with populations leaving only unmanned homes. Our highways and express ways are in poor shape and are so out dated it hurts my eyes.

Buffalo for Real is not telling people the Real truth this city is dead, its old, its been dying for years and as the suburbs expand further outward the inner city grows smaller eventually it too will die. You want a Real city try thinking about bring business here, lower state taxes to foster Real living with good culture base don’t try to bring in people who living in the Arts why…the City of Buffalo needs so much more than bringing in a bunch of Art students…RE-BUILD BUFFALO for a REAL FUTURE.

BRAVO! We need REAL, VIABLE actual BUSINESS in the city, not just art stuff. Again, nothing against art stuff, but without actual industries and services being located in the city and employing people the art stuff won't survive either... Problem is, every time they want to build an actual viable business or industry in the city who are the first ones to complain that it won't fit their "sense of place" artsy vision?

In other words, the art people need to stop acting like THEY are the ones who OWN the city and are the ONLY ones who have a say in it.

[buffy]

found this site online and thought slogan#4 was on the mark...

Slogan #4: Buffalo: The Whore On The Shore“Buffalo is ready to do anything, anywhere, anytime with anyone who will propose a waterfront development project. This slogan says it all: Both this Queen City and her administrative legs are wide open for business!”

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