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I lived in Buffalo for years and cannot in good conscience recommend that anyone move there. Crime is rampant. Police are the most racist I’ve ever experienced
by leesalminen 6y ago
I lived in Buffalo for years and cannot in good conscience recommend that anyone move there. Crime is rampant. Police are the most racist I’ve ever experienced anywhere in the world (and I very, very rarely use that word). Oh, and yeah, it’s cold as shit in the winter.
- airhead969 6y agoYeah, forget that. Minnesota or Maine would be better socially.
- hourislate 6y agoYou don't have to go that far, once outside of Buffalo things get really nice. Niagara Falls is a little sketchy but east of that it gets nice real quick.
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- koolba 6y agoWorst of all, if you make a wrong turn you’ll end up in Canada too!
- dehrmann 6y agoApparently it's closer to Toronto and Ottawa than NYC.
- dashundchen 6y agoGotta defend my city. While I don't doubt the police are racist, crime isn't actually that bad compared to other US cities. I live right outside of downtown and feel safe riding or walking almost anywhere in the city. Winter is something to embrace like other cold weather cities - easier when you have snow then rain and mud like some warmer places. And in my opinion it makes the spring and summer all the more glorious. Buffalo has had faced some hard times but the bleeding has stopped and past decade has seen the biggest improvements in years. It's legacy has left housing stock, infrastructure, architecture and culture that far outpaces other similar sized cities, at a similarly low cost.
- WillPostForFood 6y agoBuffalo is still suffering from the reputation it got in the 90s when it was a high crime city.
- walrus01 6y agoWhenever I see a random example of an American describing their local police as really racist, from an outside-of-the-usa perspective I mentally translate this as "astonishingly, incredibly racist in ways that would make your jaw drop".
- JKCalhoun 6y agoI thought as you did, but a friend in the U.K. tells me there are very racist racists there as well. I was saddened when he told me this — but having watched the U.K. a little closer over the past decade it comes as less of a surprise to me now.
- oh_sigh 6y agoyes, and a lot of the racism is re-coded to classist language - because that is a socially accepted style of discrimination in the UK.
- refurb 6y agoThat makes sense though? Do we really believe that some countries have a monopoly on racism? Seems more a broadly human quality.
- snovv_crash 6y agoIt also means there's an escape if you're willing to dress and speak differently. I'm much more tolerant of classism for this reason.
- Semaphor 6y agoI think the difference comes from the (seemingly, to someone who has never been to the USA) generally higher level of violence. Here in Germany, racism is usually (not always, there are several worse examples) just racial profiling.
- opportune 6y agoAs an American who has travelled through Europe with a black friend I think many non-Americans are simply unaware of racism in their own counties.
- refurb 6y agoAt least for one of your factors anything north of the 40th parallel would be excluded (With a few coastal regions as exceptions). As a Canadian I’m offended.