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?? Thanks for making my point for me. I'm saying with all the cash I'd save on my house in Buffalo, I'd cover the difference between what you expect to make when your house value doubles and I've thrown away because my house didn't double.

I am just noting that you are assuming your house is your only investment, and when you spend that much $$ on a house.....it probably is. And since I've just recently moved back to Buffalo from the NYC burbs, (and I'm a "non-management senior staff" software developer), I'm quite familiar with compensation in the Buffalo area. It is definitely less, but not anywhere near the disparity in your above housing-payment calculations.

Your logic is somewhat flawed....you are assuming that real estate is your only investment, and also that the price of your house in DC is going to double in 10 years....which while that may have happened in the last 10 years, historically speaking thats not very likely. Now, better paying jobs aside (they aren't all better paying down there, but most probably are) assume you took the same amount of money in both places. If you put 10% down...$25k in Buffalo, $60k in DC. If you took that extra $35k and put it into equities, and added your extra $1450/month you saved on your mortgage, then after 10 years you'd pretty much cover the difference in your calculation above. Plus, you would be much, much more diversified...if housing prices crashed in your area, you could be in some trouble, because all of your net worth is tied up in your house. The money you have in the market (assuming you are long on everything) can't ever go below what you put into it.

This article is on the Business First site today: http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/sto...6331200^1607587 Maybe that will answer some of your questions, although it focuses on "median" prices and salaries. I recently moved back to Buffalo from the NYC area. I was really excited about it and we'll see where it goes in the future. I'm not going to get into it right now, but in a few short months I have learned exactly why people leave the region. Suffice to say it has nothing to do with property taxes or the weather.

The Four Seasons in Niagara Falls is still open, I believe. Not sure how much the movies there are nowadays, but it was always the cheap place. Its on Military Road, behind one of the strip malls, sorry, I don't remember which one.

I saw it back in the beginning with the original cast...David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria, Tim Curry, and Sara Ramirez. It was absolutely hilarious, I loved it. Oh, and I _hate_ musicals, so for me to love it is really saying something. Don't miss it if its in your town, the laughs start before the play even starts.

It doesn't work....

I'm sorry, but I don't understand why you guys didn't like the Connectile Dysfunction ad. The entire room was rolling at the party I was at. That and the rock paper scissors ads were the best.

Colts N0 - Bears N3 Or, Colts N1 - Bears N3 Or, Colts N9 - Bears N4.

Its _your_ birthday and she is making you stay home???!?!?? Dude, it goes like this... "Honey, what do you want for your birthday?" "Oh, nothing, I just want to go see the sabres game!" Its _your_ day, not hers. Oh yeah, happy birthday!

Dogs or cats or people can lay down and stand up quite a bit easier than a horse can. I don't know that horses can even eat laying down. They are big animals, and can't really stand on 3 legs.

A different kind of cold? Yer damn right 32F is a "different kind of cold" than -14F!

What were Losman's numbers beyond 10 yards?

Yeah, it basically sucked, was really poorly done. They didn't even seem to know what the score was at the end.

What nobody seemed to talk about was the awful hold on I believe Freeny before brady even threw the ball. The o-lineman ripped his freakin helmet off. Should have been a 10 yard penalty.

Wow. And they got mad at us for some old guy who a mob of bills fans caused him to break his hands Crap like this happens at all football games. The difference is in how the team responds.

I heard a stat that the Laffs lead the league by a huge margin in 5 on 3's. Can anybody verify that? It wouldn't surprise me in the least. These jokers are the freakin Yankees of the NHL.

I use electric. I kinda have a baby face, so my "5 o'clock shadow" is more like 5 the next morning. But, I think most people try electric and don't like it, so they give up right away. You _need_ to use the electric every day for at least a month for your face to get used to it. Once you do, then you'll be happy, and its way less messy. I use this stuff after shaving: http://www.neutrogena.com/men/MenDetails_1...roductLineID=10 Give it a shot.

Smith was flat out bad last night. But I also think Tressel deserves a lot of blame...there were no visible adjustments at halftime, he seemed content to watch Smith in the 7 step drop run backwards 10 yards and get sacked, constantly. Why do you say Michigan fans are happy? I know quite a few, and they are pretty ticked at OSU, cause this really sucks for the big ten.

While the exact spot might have been hard to tell, I think it was pretty easy to tell that the official running in making the spot was way ahead of where the runner actually was. There was no way they could allow that spot to stand up.

I would think that Ralph has already taken the appropriate steps for this...what makes you think he hasn't?

Wow, that was an exciting (if utterly pathetic for two "playoff" teams) 4th quarter. Mistakes led the way, but it was wild.

I found those lee evans ones when they were broken. You need to change the date to either '19' or '17', can't remember. EDIT: Its 19. Here you go: http://eod.liquidviewer.com/wgr-od/wgr/20061219_Evans1.wma http://eod.liquidviewer.com/wgr-od/wgr/20061219_Evans2.wma http://eod.liquidviewer.com/wgr-od/wgr/20061219_Evans3.wma

I'm rooting for the Sabres.

I just got back from Denver....seems like the "storm" there is entirely sensationalized by the media. It looked like any typical february day in Buffalo. They just really don't plow very well there....I don't think Denver is a very snowy city, so they deal with 8" of snow just about as well as Southerners do. Plus, the snow was quite dry, and not very slippery for driving. The wet, slushy crap in Buffalo is way worse to drive in...so really its only a "story" because its a big city, and there was nothing else going on for CNN to blab about.