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The area of Delaware Ave. you mentioned is safe. The area between Linwood & Grant from downtown north to Delaware Park has a lot of young professionals, young families, and college students. For groceries, there is a Price-Rite at Elmwood & North St. (slightly ghetto but inexpensive), the Lexington Co-op at 800 Elmwood & Lafayette (expensive), Guercio & Sons at Grant & Lafayette (great little local grocery store, but limited hours), Wegmans near Elmwood & Amherst St. (a good middle ground with great selection and service) and a Tops at Niagara & Maryland (decent but nothing special, can be sketchy at night). Having a car is nice, but that area of the city is pretty well served by transit, so you could probably get by decently well without one. The bus routes would be #3, 11, 20, 25.
As Ceestahr mentioned, some people prefer to move a little further from downtown and so move in to North Buffalo (defined as anything east of Grant, west of Main, and north of Delaware Park), but that area tends to be more families than young professionals, from what I've seen.
What do you call a reasonable commute? Where are you from? Commutes here are short, from any burb. Most can be done in 30 min. [I live on the Lancaster/Alden line and it took us 30-45 min to get into work -- 10 min was getting to the airport to hop on the 33 expressway.] Around here, if you are near any expressway, the commute is short.
At 30 minutes each way, you spend an hour a day, doing nothing (more or less) other than driving. Sounds like a bit of a waste of time considering that you may only be awake for 18 hours or so. Means you're spending more than 5% of our already short existence watching asphalt, turn signals, etc.
The OP wanted to know about the Southtowns, genoobie. Perhaps he prefers not being in the city. He didn't say where he was from; if you are not from this area, you have no idea how short commutes are , even from way out. Giving information is a function of the board. You can tell everyone how great the city is, but it isn't necessary to tell everyone who asks about outside the city that they should live only in the city.
Yeah, that area is a real mix, block to block. I grew up right in the NE corner of your map image, and would move back again if the opportunity arose (and I have two young kids). The NW area is not as safe or nice-looking. The southern half has some really beautiful houses around Porter and Jersey and I think it is fairly safe, but it borders some dicier locations to the south of the map.
I have friends who live on Prospect and have not had any problems at all. But many people thought they were crazy to move there with young children.
At 30 minutes each way, you spend an hour a day, doing nothing (more or less) other than driving. Sounds like a bit of a waste of time considering that you may only be awake for 18 hours or so. Means you're spending more than 5% of our already short existence watching asphalt, turn signals, etc.
Obviously you've never driven a 400hp camaro ss!
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