how is Rochester? Im considering moving there from NE

[Pete]

Hey, I live in Massachusetts now, and rents are crazy high right now.  Im splitting from my live in GF now, and will no longer be splitting rent and bills.  Rochester is much cheaper housing than NE.  It is easy for me to transfer my job to Rochester.  So my goal is to work in Rochester, have a short work commute.  And to get Bills season tickets.  I grew up in Buffalo and I love the city.  Is Rochester similar?

[teef]

1 minute ago, Pete said:

Hey, I live in Massachusetts now, and rents are crazy high right now.  Im splitting from my live in GF now, and will no longer be splitting rent and bills.  Rochester is much cheaper housing than NE.  It is easy for me to transfer my job to Rochester.  So my goal is to work in Rochester, have a short work commute.  And to get Bills season tickets.  I grew up in Buffalo and I love the city.  Is Rochester similar?

sorry about the gf pete.  depending on specifically where you work, you shouldn't have more than a 20-25 min drive in most places.  i'm a suburban guy, so i would avoid the city...especially certain parts.  even the bars/restaurants we go to are usually in the suburbs, or in one area downtown.  unless we go to a play/sporting event/strong museum...i never go into the city.   just depends on what lifestyle you're looking for.   review the prices.  this area of ny was once wildly affordable, but like everywhere else, prices have skyrocketed.  both homes in the area  that i've owned have now doubled in value over the last 7 or so years.  

[Royale with Cheese]

27 minutes ago, Pete said:

Hey, I live in Massachusetts now, and rents are crazy high right now.  Im splitting from my live in GF now, and will no longer be splitting rent and bills.  Rochester is much cheaper housing than NE.  It is easy for me to transfer my job to Rochester.  So my goal is to work in Rochester, have a short work commute.  And to get Bills season tickets.  I grew up in Buffalo and I love the city.  Is Rochester similar?

 

Break ups are rough.

 

I would avoid Rochester.  From what I understand, most closet ghey's live in Rochester because I heard a dentist up there has a dungeon in his basement and they do "fun" things.  

[BillsPride12]

If you like golf the Rochester area has some beautiful courses.  Sorry about the breakup but moving back closer to WNY and being able to get Bills season tickets is a pretty nice tradeoff!

[Draconator]

So sorry about the breakup. That's rough. 

 

When I was a little kid, my parents had close friends who lived in Pittsford, and that was always a really nice area. I would agree with teef and avoid the city. But the surrounding areas can be quite nice. 

[Bad Things]

I was born and raised in a suburb of Rochester.  It was a great place to grow up and I thoroughly enjoyed the region.  

 

That said, I moved away in 1990 and never looked back.

[Orlando Buffalo]

I grew up in Rochester area mainly and I did enjoy it. It was great in most ways, my friends who remain tell me some areas that sucked have improved and others now suck. Make sure you do your research on safety but there are some nice areas that are cheaper. It especially helps if you like minor league baseball and hockey because they are cheaper fun there( or at least used to be)

[Mike in Horseheads]

I always heard it is cheaper to live in the western burbs than eastern ones for what thats worth. Plus your closer to Buffalo.

 

Good luck!

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

6 hours ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

I always heard it is cheaper to live in the western burbs than eastern ones for what thats worth. Plus your closer to Buffalo.

 

Good luck!

I think this is right. But I grew up in the eastern burbs and am biased, and think they are way better than the west. 
 

I have a buddy who lives in a spot right around penfield and east Rochester, and he got a great house and it’s pretty inexpensive.

[teef]

2 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:

I think this is right. But I grew up in the eastern burbs and am biased, and think they are way better than the west. 
 

I have a buddy who lives in a spot right around penfield and east Rochester, and he got a great house and it’s pretty inexpensive.

the west side/east side will forever live in rochester.  my wife if from the west side, and i'm from the east side.  i regularly let her know what life i saved her from.

[Your Brown Eye]

Lived here my whole life. Not a fan of it personally for many reasons, but my wife wants to stay because family is nearby, and while we have a little one and another one on the way. We are making the move this week to the busnell's basin area which is nice because it is in the center of the three main towns we used (Victor, Fairport and Pittsford). I will agree with others, life is pretty good on the eastside.

[JÂy RÛßeÒ]

Lived in Rochester from 1983 - 2003 (with a short time living in NJ but we went back to ROC after our first kid was born).  Moved to VA 2 years ago to find some sun (and we did...)

 

Plusses: Lots of great neighborhoods.  Museums, culture, restaurants.  Close to cool stuff (finger lakes, Buffalo, Toronto).  Easy to get around.  Healthcare system is top notch.

Minuses: not a lot of sunshine, taxes

[Steve O]

68, outside of a few years in college and a year in Austin I've spent my entire life in the suburb of Irondequoit. Front yard is the Northern border of the United States. As Teef says, outside of sporting or cultural events it's best to avoid the city... I drive 20 miles around it rather than 4 miles through it. A friend was talking to a cop parked outside a Walmart last week. Cop said Walmart pays him to be there. If a thief is 17 or under he can't detain them, can just relieve him of the stolen merchandise and release him. This Walmart is at the southern end or Irondequoit near the city border. If I need to go to Walmart I go to Webster. They say life is worth living there. 

As OB says, Rochester is a great minor league sports town. Red Wings, Amerks, and Nighthawks are all mainstays. Soccer is sporadic, every few years a team appears for a while.

No shortage of neighborhood bars if that's your thing. 

As BP12 says, we're also a great golf town. $475 will get you a season pass to all 3 county run courses. Also a good mix of semi-private and private clubs.

Fairport has the best utility rates as the municipality runs their own electric. They claim Fairport Electric uses no tax money, not sure if that's true or advanced bookkeeping. 

Where in Ma do you currently live? My brother runs the O family farm in South Hadley (outside Holyoke, a little South of Hadley.)

Anyways sorry about the breakup, good luck wherever you end up.

 

[teef]

53 minutes ago, Your Brown Eye said:

Lived here my whole life. Not a fan of it personally for many reasons, but my wife wants to stay because family is nearby, and while we have a little one and another one on the way. We are making the move this week to the busnell's basin area which is nice because it is in the center of the three main towns we used (Victor, Fairport and Pittsford). I will agree with others, life is pretty good on the eastside.

i think you're at the perfect point in your life to be here.  i never thought it was fun when i was younger, but there's so much for families to do.  we stopped having people give our kids gifts a long time ago.  now we get season passes to as many things as we can...the strong, whickham farms, the zoo, science center, etc.  even taking the kids to local sporting events is a new one for us.  cheap and entertaining.  

 

the area you're moving too is awesome.  i live up the street by casa larga.  i'm in that weird zone where i have a victor mailing address, but we are in fairport schools.  i constantly driving through the basin to take my kids to school in pittsford, and other than rush hour, i love the area.  my wife an i got to happy hour at branca weekly.  it's a great spot.  

[Bray Wyatt]

Spent my first 35 years of my life roughly in ROC. Moved 5 years ago.

Lived in and graduated from Fairport, and will say as others have said, east side is def better than west side. (I had heard that the wealthy people chose to settle on the east side originally so that when they were going to the city in the morning and leaving the city in the evening that the sun was always behind them, not sure if that is true though haha)

 

Most of my friends still live there, and my brother still lives there in Pittsford. When I was younger, the only real nightlife was downtown ROC, but have since heard that no one goes downtown anymore. In turn, I heard Fairport has a decent strip of bars and people tend to stay/go there for a night out now (wish that was the case when I was younger!)

 

My family has seasons for bills games for over 20+ years and it is doable from ROC, but it does take awhile to get home from games, cant imagine what it is like now with the drought long being over.

 

 

[Jauronimo]

17 hours ago, teef said:

sorry about the gf pete.  depending on specifically where you work, you shouldn't have more than a 20-25 min drive in most places.  i'm a suburban guy, so i would avoid the city...especially certain parts.  even the bars/restaurants we go to are usually in the suburbs, or in one area downtown.  unless we go to a play/sporting event/strong museum...i never go into the city.   just depends on what lifestyle you're looking for.   review the prices.  this area of ny was once wildly affordable, but like everywhere else, prices have skyrocketed.  both homes in the area  that i've owned have now doubled in value over the last 7 or so years.  

A newly single dude should not be living out in the burbs unless hes over the age of 40 and hoping to clean up with Fairport and Pittsford townies.  

 

Disclaimer:  I moved away 10 years ago so its entirely possible that nightlife has changed a lot but last I knew the late 20s and 30s crew who weren't married were going out in the Southwedge, select East & A bars, Park Ave, Village Gate, or North Winton areas depending on your scene.

Edited 16 hours ago by Jauronimo

[Einstein]

Fairport, Penfield, Pittsford are where you want to be in Rochester.

[teef]

16 minutes ago, Jauronimo said:

A newly single dude should not be living out in the burbs unless hes over the age of 40 and hoping to clean up with Fairport and Pittsford townies.  

 

Disclaimer:  I moved away 10 years ago so its entirely possible that nightlife has changed a lot but last I knew the late 20s and 30s crew who weren't married were going out in the Southwedge, select East & A bars, Park Ave, Village Gate, or North Winton areas depending on your scene.

you're 100% correct.  single in the suburbs is not the most happening thing.  i don't know many single guys my age, but some i know have lived in the apartments by village gate, east ave and the sibleys building.  

 

the going out scene has changed a ton.  i'm 47, so we did the monroe ave, east and a, and mostly park ave.  as far as i know, the park ave bars we went to, (they were called preps and park bench) have closed.  people just stopped coming.  i love the village gate, but i'm mostly a restaurant scene now.  fairport is the new down town.  the number of new bars and restaurants is amazing.  live music all summer.  the parking has become the issue.  if you haven't been back in a while, it's worth checking out the village.  

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

19 hours ago, Pete said:

I'm splitting from my live in GF now

 

Pics?

[Pete]

2 hours ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:

 

Pics?

Before or after LOL?  She was smoking hot a decade ago when we started dating.  Shes eaten plenty of popsicles and tubs of ice cream since.  Ill spare you the pics

Im 56, in good shape, and currently live in Fall River Mass