Big Turk

Buffalo has been replacing low paying blue collar jobs with higher paying IT jobs for a while now. Numerous companies have moved their tech hubs to Buffalo and even more are coming. Why? Because Buffalo and the WNY region has an abundance of high quality software engineers that the rest of the country is starting to figure out that largely hasn't been tapped yet. These companies can pay significantly more than what most people make here but significantly less than what they would pay someone in say Seattle or San Fran or Houston for example. It's a win-win for both sides. Fun fact...the person who invented React, a very popular front end JavaScript framework/library used by millions that was created by Facebook(now Meta) is from Orchard Park. So even if people want to say the job market is stagnant, which it really isn't, the overall pay for those same number of jobs is going up and continues to rise. And the only sources I found that showed the cost of living was higher in Buffalo were places like Forbes that had seemingly nonsensical data showing that the average house price in Buffalo was 483K(it's more like 275K) and that a gallon of milk here costs $4.70(it's more like $2.69). All the other sites showed Houston is somewhere between 8-15% more expensive which only makes sense considering the housing payments alone will likely be close to double there. And like everywhere down south the cost of groceries there about forces you to have to have a second job just to feed your family every month. Everytime I go visit relatives in South Carolina I about cry when I walk into the stores to get food for the week.

I can believe it...in May alone this year, Miami had more hours with a heat index over 108 than any other entire summer besides last year's summer. So before summer even started, they literally shattered extreme heat records for every year on record other than 2023. Absurd. It also beat the earliest occurrence of this by over a full calendar month, with the earliest it happened prior being end of June, which was the only instance of that...all the rest were July, August and early September. The heat is starting to build to extreme levels in these places like Florida and Texas well before the start of summer now...going to become unlivable at some point if this continues.

Too bad you didn't stay for the summers when there is plenty of sun.

I've never had any issues getting a job...in fact the last 2 jobs I have taken, I was happily working elsewhere when I got recruited and both came with 20K raises plus bonuses. I suggest the issue is more the type of career field people choose to be in and less the job market. If people choose to work dead end careers or factory jobs that are going the way of the Dodo Bird, then yeah, I could see that. If you are working in an in demand field and are good at what you do, you'll likely not have too big of an issue finding a job.

It's cheaper to live here than it is down there...probably by quite a bit...every time I go to the grocery store when I am down there I about have a heart attack. Have to get a 2nd job there just to buy groceries. Don't worry...I'm not moving anywhere where I need to wear a coat in winter and have to live indoors in the A/C for 5 months out of the year. If I have to deal with that type of heat, I'm not dealing with the cold too. I go for Victor and Canandaigua...love that area.

That's 8% too much. If you think our property taxes are high, check out the insurance rates down in Florida. They are almost 5x the National Average at 11K a year. Within a decade, people will be paying more for their house insurance premiums a month than their mortgages as insurers continue to leave in droves and refuse to insure anyone there. In fact, the six most expensive places in the US to insure a house are in Florida. They talk up their no state income tax, but this pretty much eats it all up and then some. Even when factoring in paying the NYS income tax, NYS property taxes AND my house insurance combined, I'm still paying a few K less a year than just the house insurance costs down there. That's not even factoring other cost of living expenses that are far higher down there than in WNY.

Cool...well, you can pay those extra tax dollars for them sitting on their ass doing nothing, I already pay far too much.

Probably not as different as you might think. There are some severe limitations of what AI can do in software engineering without human intervention. It can build fully functioning programs on its own that have no basis in any reality of what it actually needs to do. The type of things that humans are very good at ascertaining and understanding context is something that is very difficult for them to get AI to be good at and that's not likely to change all that much.

It's been greatly overstated. Mostly it will eliminate low level stuff like people who write documentation or do basic tasks like translation services, etc. People want to believe that suddenly in 5 years everything will be AI and all the software engineers will suddenly be out of a job. I use AI everyday in the form of GitHub Co-Pilot while writing code. It's valuable. But let's be real. It's not putting me out of a job anytime soon, if ever. It's very good at generalized tasks but not very good at complex ones, often sending you on wild goose chases for hours if you let it. Effectively I explain it like this. If you were using it as GPS, it would be great at getting you from Buffalo to Seattle by giving you generalized directions on what exits to take and what interstates to use. Once you get to Seattle it's not very useful at all at getting you to places within the city and you'd be driving around in circles for hours getting lost. More accurately, you could say that the developers who are using AI will replace the ones who aren't. Now THAT is likely accurate and has already started occuring as AI has helped developers become more efficient in what they do. Remember when robotic technology was going to replace every factory worker 25 years ago? How'd that turn out? Sure it replaced the most basic jobs and requires fewer employees now, but it is never going to fully replace humans. AI is very similar to this. Don't buy into the sensationalized hype of people who have no idea what's going on and don't actually work in the industry.

People on welfare don't have much of a drive either and I'm sure they complain. But I guess they should get more money too?

If you choose that career and KNOW the wage going into it, you don't really have a right to complain about it later. You chose to take that job out of high school and roll the dice, not go to college, not pay student loans, not deal with the headaches of all of that. I mean fast food workers are making $18+ an hour starting out now which is beyond ridiculous, I am pretty sure ditch diggers are earning more than what they are worth too

This is not reality anymore. The job market has been improving steadily. I live here and make well into 6 figures. Your old beliefs that won't die from 30 years ago do not match up with any statistics that have shown what is actually happening here over the past several years. In fact, one of the reasons that Zillow ranked Buffalo as the hottest housing market in the entire US in 2024 was BECAUSE of the job market and it's considerable improving conditions. If people aren't making enough money it's likely because they are working dead end careers with no chance for advancement or careers not in demand. That's a choice.

WNY continues getting love over the last few years in pretty much every study and report that's come out... Rochester ranked #2, Buffalo ranked #6 in most affordable cities in the world. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/home-prices-affordable-cities-cheap-housing/

Been going on for thousands of years before Madonna was born. Not sure why this is surprising to people. It's called the world's oldest profession for a reason.

It's called a transactional interest. He has money, fame and power and she has access to that and gains her own for being with him. Sex is performed as part of it

Well, they effectively stole that money so they probably shouldn't be complaining.

That's a lot for what they accomplished

Said he was on the sidelines wearing a leg sleeve so likely something minor that might take a week or two to heal up

This is just getting stupid now...5 years, $275 million and $200 million guaranteed?? For WHAT? WTF has he done to earn anything close to that? They are paying him as if he is the best QB in the NFL and he is fringe top 10 on his best day. I'd probably put him around 12th overall in the NFL. Tua's price tag keeps going up which is always a good thing to see...

Yeah but at least he played for a while as a starter...what about players like Ja'Marcus Russell and Akili Smith who busted early?

Pretty much foregone conclusions now, just have to work out offset language

Not yet, but if he continues producing the way he has he easily could be...he isn't even really featured in the offense at all except in spots here and there and he finished 6th in the NFL in yards from scrimmage and 4th in rushing. The only 2 RBs in Yards from scrimmage ahead of him were McCaffery who led the NFL and Breece Hall from the Jets who was only 18 yards ahead of him in 4th place but had 18 more touches(rushes + receptions). The other 3 were WR's who all had more than 100 catches in Lamb, Hill and Nacua. Nacua finished 8 yards ahead of him in 5th. If he simply would have caught that easy TD against Philly, he would have been 4th.

Jet's are just a dumpster fire...

You been day drinking or something? 🤣

Kinda reminds me of the Bills in 2020 when they were just decimating teams