[BC] Re: Job Opening * Buffalo, NY

[SteveOrdinetz]

k7cr wrote:
>Living in the Seattle area, I will second Scott's comment about housing costs.
>The average home in Seattle is about 400,000.
>
>All of this has something to do with the level of activity in the 
>market. Seattle
>and it's surrounding cities are growing at an incredible 
>rate.  Seattle and Bellevue
>are a forest of tower cranes.  Something that you don't see in Rochester or
>Buffalo.   WNY is a nice place (been there many times) but their cities market
>rank continues to go down.   On the flip side, they are indeed nice places.
>An - no- it does not snow all the time in Buffalo, nor does it rain 
>all the time in
>Seattle.   A serious person will get by the urban legends.


I spent a few years in Seattle back in the mid 70s.  While it doesn't 
necessarily rain all the time, you can pretty much forget about 
seeing the sun from approximately mid-October until Easter.  I moved 
there in December, and was about ready to slit my wrists by 
February.  Gradually got used to the lack of winter sunshine by my 
2nd or 3rd winter.  The summers there are beautiful, if a little on 
the cool side.  Even the "rain" isn't rain like we know it in most of 
the country...it's something a little more than mist but not quite drizzle.
I would imagine though that with the amount of growth that area has 
experienced, the quality of life must be diminishing with crowding, 
traffic, rising taxes (which were never cheap to begin with),  $400k 
for the average house??!?  I can't believe the average salary is 6 
figures...how do people afford it?
I'm content in my little corner of northern New England.  The winters 
are kinda long, but as Tim Sample says "if you can't take the 
winters, you don't deserve the summers".