[kipperfan]

Down to Buffalo....not knowing what to expect as I have never been before, but was bored today and wanted some Camel cigs for cheap, so I went.

Wow......I have never in my life been to a more depressing and sad city in my life. EVERYTHING is old, I spent 3 hours driving around and saw like 2 new buildings the whole time(and by new I mean 1980's).

The streets, all of them except the Interstates were horrid, potholes every where, cracks and chunks of pavment coming up everywhere.

Never before have I seen so many boarded up factorys, buildings, houses.......almost like a big ghost town. Not to mention the factories that still run are right in the middle of residential housing. Also everywhere you go you see rements of buildings that have been knocked down, but no one has ever bothered to pick up and dispose of the rubble.

Then I decided to go into one of the "big malls"....ohh boy. Half of the stores had nothing in them, with for lease signs on the boarded up exterior. It is saturday afternoon 2 weeks before christmas yet there was NO ONE in the mall.

Every residential community I drove through looked like they were "projects", I saw a guy smoking what I assume to be crack right on his front porch.

I think HSBC owns the city, Iam not kidding. The arena, a tower, 3 buildings all named HSBC. Signs and billboards everywhere for HSBC, sided of buses with HSBC, I saw two cars with HSBC on them, I even saw I guy with a HSBC tattoo......ok the last one isnt true.

The wierd thing is a I didnt see a single liquor store the entire time...I found that kind of odd considering they are all over most cities.

They are no parks....well thats not true I saw one but believe me you wouldnt want to be in it without company.

HSBC arena is probably the nicest and newest building in the city....but the city has built nothing around it (ie..red mile, whyte ave) there is just this big rink surrounded by old buildings, and like 2 OLD pubs...really dumb setup.

Anyways I had to share..I was shocked...Buffalo makes Detriot look like shangrala.....acctually Buffalo reminded me of a really big Sudbury.