What Can You Tell Me About Buffalo?
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Marysafan

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 11:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I just got a call from the Deejay daughter...apparently she might be on the move once again.

Can anyone tell me anything about Buffalo?

Fanny

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 11:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
They used to roam the American west in large numbers.

Squaredsc

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 11:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
they get alot of snow as well as roam the american west in large numbers, lol.

Crossfire

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 11:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hehehe®

I also hear they like snow. Seems to be a fairly good helping of it around buffalo.

Crossfire

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 11:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow! Get out of my brain Square. :)

Heyltslori

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 12:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I believe Twinkie is from Buffalo!

Squaredsc

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 12:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
lol crossfire, but i already have a 1/2.

Fanny

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 12:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
and here it is the other 1/2 :)

Draheid

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 12:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm betting Twinkie will know a lot about this since she lives there! :)

Mware

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 12:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Great wings.

wings

Car54

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 12:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mary, Twinkie lives in Buffalo...she had a whole thread about how cold she was:

OMG I woke up to snow

Car54

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 12:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jinx Draheid!
Jinx Lori

Crossfire

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 12:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Speaking of snow, I hear parts of the US are looking at getting something like 4 to 8 FEET of the stuff this weekend. Astounding.

Here I am stuck in Toronto, and not a flake to be found. I am almost jealous. The great white north is a scam. :)

Zachsmom

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 12:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What is this thing called "snow" that everyone is talking about?

Draheid

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 12:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Umm, I seem to remember it looks something like this:

snow1 snow2

Zachsmom

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 12:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How pretty..:)

We don't see snow here in sun..umm southern california..especially those who live by the beach..

Flint

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 03:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The 'burbs are a nice place to live. The city proper is NOT. Stay away from the old downtown core.

When I lived there in 1994 I took a wrong turn and ended up in the "bad" section of town. After seeing a guy attack a moving car with a knife I quiickly did a u-turn and got the Spain out of dodge.

Twiggyish

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 03:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I know you shuffle to it..LOL (That's a reference to an old song)

Twinkie

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 03:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Buffalo is beautiful in most parts. Its a very old city and has many historic spots. We have the last stop on the underground railroad here. We have parks designed by Frederic Law Olmstead(who designed Central Park in NYC)and we have houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Buffalo Philharmonic is considered one of the best in the world. We have of course the home of buffalo wings, The Anchor Bar. We are 20 minutes from Niagara Falls and on the westside 5 minutes from Canada. Despite the reputation Buffalo gets much less snow than surrounding areas and many areas in the country. Buffalo is filled with many big beautiful mansions and tons of great restaurants.
Buffalo is full of culture. There are many theaters(not the movie kind) and lots of festivals. The Goo Goo Dolls are from Buffalo and so are quite a few stars and they return often. I love it here. :-)

Fanny

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 03:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Buffalo Bills and Drew Bledsoe. That's my kind of culture, lol.

Wiseolowl

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 03:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
As a kid going to university, in Canada near Buffalo, the attraction of going there was the fact that the legal drinking age was 18 - not 21 - so we would pile into a broken down car - drive to Buffalo, go to a downtown bar - make a move on some American chicks - usually unsuccessively - and then get the hell out and be very pleased that we didn't get mugged. Also enjoyed going to hockey games - but again, you went in big numbers , followed a specific route and after the game got the hell out .

Wiseolowl

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 04:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That should read "unsuccesfully" , not successively- we never got that lucky!!!

Crossfire

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 04:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No kidding 21 in Canada? I never knew that.

When did they lower it to...what is is now, 19?

Wiseolowl

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 04:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Crossfire - I think it's 19 now - but it was 21 when growing up - I worked at the Banff Springs Hotel back in 1969 . My buddy and I who were 20 were dating two twenty-one year old girls and got thrown out of a Banff Hotel at age 20 - 1 month short of age 21 - by an RCMP no less, - one of the more embarrassing moments in life as we told the girls wew were 22!!

Lumbele

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 05:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Crossfire, you spring chicken, you.LOL What I didn't realise is that some provinces went down to 18, then back up to 19.
Legal Drinking Ages in Canada

Crossfire

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 05:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow, I had no idea. Interesting link Lumbele, seems to be quite scattered, with some moving up, others moving down at various times.

It went up by one year when I was 11, early enough to be off my radar at that point. Had it happened a few years later, I am certain I would have disapproved. :)

I don't remember any specific incidences, but I would be quite disappointed in me if it were prooven(sp?) that I did not manage to sneak in early a couple of times. Hehehe.

All between 18 and 19 now. I did not know we had any provinces as low as 18, good time to be a teen. :)

Twinkie

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 08:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hope Marysafan makes it back here to learn more. And Mary......don't worry about the posts about it being unsafe. I live right in the city and was home alone most nights and never felt safer. The city has changed alot in the last few years and there's only one area to beware of now and that's the north side of the city. That's a very small area considering how big Buffalo is. Downtown is some of the most amazing architecture and I would hate for your daughter to miss it. BTW I live not far from downtown. Its nothing like it was years ago. It is now filled with all of the huge office buildings and some of the finest clubs and restaurants in the city. Downtown is also home to also of the festivals, including art festival, that bring about 200,000 ppl each year to each event. Many city blocks are blocked off to traffic so you can walk the streets to see each exhibit, of which there are hundreds. We also have one of the finest art museums, 2nd only to NYC.

Tntitanfan

Friday, December 13, 2002 - 08:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have an epal in Amherst which I understand is a suburb, and they get tons of snow!!

Twinkie

Saturday, December 14, 2002 - 06:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Amherst is considered the "rich" suburb. Their taxes are very high but their schools are great. My sister in law lives there.

Twinkie

Saturday, December 14, 2002 - 02:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tntitanfan, yes we are in the snowbelt, but hey....it sure ain't Fargo ND by any means. So it could be much worse. Also, many parts of Colorado get much more snow than we do.

Halfunit

Saturday, December 14, 2002 - 02:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Go Bisons!!