buffalo

Buffalo is the definition of "used to". Buffalo used to be cool. It used to be semi-prosperous. It used to be respectable. It used to be inhabitable. I'm not saying that if Scott Norwood makes that kick anything changes, but it wouldn't have made things worse. The blue-collar factories and steel industry are, for the most part, long dead. The political situation in Buffalo is, for lack of better words, a filthy stinking cesspool of overspending, patronage, and pork. The inner city is a wasteland of crime, poverty, drugs. They could have saved it, revitalized the whole damn thing, but instead of building the University Center at Buffalo actually IN Buffalo, they built it in the suburbs. I'm not going to go into the weather. Let's leave it at: when you can't remember what spring feels like, you know you're in Buffalo.