The nice thing about growing up in Buffalo is the feeling when you move away. It's what I imagine an inmate must feel like when the prison doors swing open after years on the receiving end of some truly inglorious anal rapings.

That said, I think that the city's reputation is worse than is deserved, if only slightly. There are, after all, many beautiful buildings in certain areas of the city. Most of these can be had very cheaply, as well -- a fact I attribute primarily to the lack of any actual jobs paying much more than a slaver's wage. Buffalo is also very close to Canada, which will be handy as things get really bad toward the end of the second Bush administration and the beginning of the third one. And the fourth and last good thing about Buffalo is that Ani DiFranco makes her home there, so, should you decide to move, you can make a play for what has got to be one of the world's truly irritating women of notoriety.

Wait. I misnumbered. Looks like there are three good things.

The American media continues to ignore these three things, however, and instead persists in heaping salt upon the gaping wound that is Buffalo's reputation. I'd say it's unfair, but when this happens, I simply can't blame them, Jews though they may be.

I wish you could just close a city, like you can with a failing K-Mart.

Analogcabin @ 11:15 AM
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