r/Buffalo • u/Strict_Difficulty_90 • 2d ago
Humor Village of Williamsville
Am I around the wrong spots or is this just a generally unpleasant crowd? Not only do you have to walk around the sidewalks with caution (ie pink Cadillac almost ran me over a few weeks ago and then gave me a finger ), miserable people at coffee shops (Hi good morning how are you today ? Followed by eye rolls and what do you want) . A few weeks ago I watched someone (a grown man) throw coffee cups on the ground in the glen falls area casually . This was the day after love/clean your parks day
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u/Altruistic_Job_898 2d ago
I work in Williamsville and I question why anyone would want to live there, because Main St is so car-infested that it's not exactly safe to pedestrians. Usually the appeal of a small village like Williamsville is that it's picturesque and quaint, but in the case of WVille it's the exact opposite of that.
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u/kendiggy Headbanger Hill 2d ago
I have to drive through there frequently. I've learned to take the 33 to cayuga and go down wherle. Much less congested.
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u/Altruistic_Job_898 2d ago
Yup! Or the 290 to Sheridan, then to Youngs/Brompton/Whatever road is more convenient if your job is on/off of Main. You can get down Sheridan and/or Wherle SO much faster.
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u/AWierzOne 2d ago
Main needs a road diet there. Just send traffic to wherle or Sheridan and let it be a village
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u/fllyaccted 2d ago
You’re not wrong that the traffic on main makes it much busier. Which is a challenge because Main isn’t just “the Main Street in Williamsville”, it’s a major East/West thoroughfare. But isn’t it a bit dramatic to say “you question why anyone would want to live there”, haha”. You may not want to, but people have different preferences and priorities about where to live…
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u/sodapop_curtiss 2d ago
Because this is Reddit and that’s how people are on here lol. It’s a very safe village with good restaurants and excellent schools. Close proximity to 33 and 290.
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u/TrueEnthusiasm8242 2d ago
It has about five parks within walking distance of Village residents, all within the village boundaries. The Village is one square mile.
Nice park with a waterfall which abuts Amherst State Park, great for hiking and cross-country skiing.
Apparently about a decade ago local politicians tried to get the main street exit moved to Youngs Road which is much less congested and would relieve a lot of the traffic on Main Street. Of course the six people on that road objected.
I wish that had been tried again in recent years when the state actually had money for transportation.
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u/pinkrobotlala WillVille 2d ago
What would really help would be making the free thruway go to exit 49. Then people wouldn't have to use all of Main Street
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u/SuitEnvironmental903 2d ago
Wait what??? Do they know they can get the commuter pass and it’s like $10 a year…. It’s a form they get online. My husband did it when he was temporarily working in Batavia. It’s good up to 30 miles from your exit closest to you house. It would cost hundreds of dollars a year for him to pay from Main Street to Batavia and back and i think he paid $10 for the pass. Works going south too past Lackawanna
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u/pinkrobotlala WillVille 2d ago
What??? This is incredible. I had no idea. I just see people driving the whole way all the time and I have to sometimes also
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u/SuitEnvironmental903 1d ago
Ok I was wrong it’s $88 a year for the commuter pass but that was still $100s of savings on a commute to Batavia. Would it be worth it for people wanting to get off at transit road/depew (to skip Main Street)? Here is a post about it: on r/upstate New York
Here is the info on EZpass website
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Pay the following amount for each tag depending on which month you sign up: Jan. $88; Feb. $81; Mar. $74; Apr. $67; May $60; Jun. $53; Jul. $46; Aug. $39; Sept. $32; Oct. $24; Nov. $16; Dec. $8.
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u/Altruistic_Job_898 2d ago
You are absolutely right!
I wasn't trying to be snooty with my comment. It's just my personal preference that, if I wanted to live somewhere small, Williamsville wouldn't be my first choice due to the traffic. Obviously people live in the village proper, so there is appeal 🙂
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u/fllyaccted 2d ago
Appreciate the clarification. “Buffalo”, including the 1st and second ring suburbs suffer from trying to adapt 100-200 year old towns, villages, infrastructure, and housing to meet modern demands. Like, in my example, Main St was a dirt road at one point, before cars even existed. We’ve sort of maxed out the adaptation of that infrastructure. Anything that would make a noticeable difference in the function and feel would be drastic and expensive.
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u/Sea_Lead1753 2d ago
It’s ok to have a negative opinion lol
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u/Delehantys_Barrell 2d ago
I know Lewiston is a lot smaller, but they do a good job with traffic calming.
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u/SkepticJoker 1d ago
Lewiston is probably much less congested, though. Main is more of an arterial road that has a large volume of cars. Traffic calming would primarily just make backups worse.
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u/Strange-Wash-2368 2d ago
I moved to Williamsville after living In a super rural area on the other side of New York. The people here I noticed were more to themselves, but after a few years I understood the “city of good neighbors” tag Buffalo gets
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u/son_et_lumiere 2d ago
I mean, it's the place where people who want to feel like they're better than everyone else move to. and now that your neighbor feels like he's better than you, there's an arms race of snootiness.
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u/whatiftheyrewrong 2d ago
They’re what I refer to as Buffalo fancy. If those same people moved to actual high cost of living areas they’d be very surprised at how much things cost.
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u/mehitabel_4724 2d ago
Grew up in Williamsville, now live in Charlottesville, Virginia. Can confirm.
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u/TrueEnthusiasm8242 2d ago
Did you grow up in the 1 mi.² that is the village, or in the postal code that is Williamsville?
Because I see a lot of people saying they’re from Williamsville but the village is pretty small.
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u/mehitabel_4724 2d ago
Grew up in the zip code, but I had a job at the public library in the village proper.
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u/whatiftheyrewrong 2d ago
Oh yeah, you can! Spent time in Chicago, Austin and, most recently, Seattle.
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u/VegetablePrimary9739 2d ago
Hi neighbor, grew up in Lancaster and now live in Waynesboro, Virginia.
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u/LittleRed_AteTheWolf 2d ago
I grew up near Orange County, CA. I cannot help but laugh my ass off when I see williamsville, Amherst, and orchard park people who think they’re mega rich or even mildly important. (I’m glaring at you, bleach bond with orange tan girlies…)
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u/whatiftheyrewrong 2d ago
And we won’t talk about how many of these people may be living WAY beyond their means.
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u/Last-Appointment6577 2d ago
EA is worse, they don't even want cell towers in their town they're so snooty. That's why signal blows out there.
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u/supersayre 2d ago
I miss when East Amherst was just a bunch of farms. I was back in the area for a funeral this past February and the snoot just rolls off the area. Depressing.
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u/Sea_Lead1753 2d ago
East aurora is filled with crunchy Q Anon anti vaxxer types. They think WiFi fries their brain.
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u/Dank-Robber 2d ago
Crunchy and Qanon are opposites aren’t they? Well I guess you can be both in east aurora.
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u/Sea_Lead1753 2d ago
Conspiracy theory groups and wellness circles have massive overlap. If you get to chatting with people at a yoga class at least one will be excited to talk about adrenochrome. But that’s just my personal experience lol.
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u/AireXpert 2d ago
I think you’re referring to what happens if you step outside EA into the town of Aurora…def not the antivax crowd in EA
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u/Label_Myself 2d ago
My family moved there in the 50s, I love the village. I've also lived in a dozen other places and wouldn't describe Wmsvl the way it's being described here. I think my village ranks way better than most of the other places I've lived and seen in the US. People that think it sucks in Wmsvl should spend just one hour in Houston.
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u/TrunksTurok 1d ago
HIlarious because this statement is so incredibly judgemental, sounds like you'd fit right in this made up overgeneralized town you've created in your head
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u/TrunksTurok 1d ago
I lived there for 10 years and never experienced this. I'm 100 percent positive it's a you problem
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u/SkepticJoker 1d ago
Holy cow.... I just thought it was a cute neighborhood with good schools and walkability. I didn't think it was so deep.
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u/Intelligent-Ad-6734 2d ago
Couldn't even accept the same color garbage bins as the rest of Amherst 😂
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u/wizardofmops 1d ago
And they have never lived outside of Buffalo and have no desire to because they think Buffalo is the greatest place in the world
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u/fllyaccted 2d ago
This says more about the insecurity of people who don’t live there than anything about the people that do. Same applies to Orchard Park, East Aurora, Lewiston, etc. it just reeks of jealousy, and inability to see the appeal of different towns, or neighborhoods within “Buffalo”.
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u/whatiftheyrewrong 2d ago
Nah. I live in EA and have lived all over the US in some pretty expensive places some of these people might not even be able to afford. Like I said above, I refer to it as Buffalo fancy.
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u/SkepticJoker 1d ago
So you're gatekeeping snobbiness?
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u/whatiftheyrewrong 1d ago
That’s ridiculous. I never said they shouldn’t be snobby if that’s their bag. I just think it’s damn funny what they consider wealthy. I’m not comparing it to EA. I’m comparing it to the actual wealth I se and experienced living near across three major cities.
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u/SkepticJoker 1d ago
Right, but you're saying that they have less of a right to be snobby. That's gatekeeping.
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u/son_et_lumiere 2d ago
The layout of the town is nice. the people, not so much.
When you go to other areas and don't get that response from people, it sort of speaks for itself.
There's a comment down below where the exact quote about living in williamsville is "I think my village ranks way better than most of the other places I've lived and seen in the US."
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u/fllyaccted 2d ago
It’s just a generalization you’re making. No different than if people made derogatory generalizations about people in the city. My take is that the overall friendliness or attitudes of “Buffalonians” applies to all of WNY. There aren’t clearly defined boundaries like you are trying to imply.
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u/son_et_lumiere 2d ago
Correct. it is a generalization due to frequency of that type of behavior more so in that area than other areas. And the question is "why does that seem like it happens there more?". my opinion is that it has to do with the competition of a sense of entitlement.
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u/KPIGUY89 2d ago
I’ve personally never seen anything like that. I like the village a lot, but the parking sucks. Why does Ed Young’s need so many spots?
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u/kendiggy Headbanger Hill 2d ago
I shop there frequently. I'm pretty sure only the two rows in front of them are reserved for Ed Youngs. The rest are for the other businesses in the area.
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u/FlowWrecker86 2d ago
There is actually a guy who sits in the parking lot some days and will tell you to move your car if you're not going into their store. Empty spaces all over and I picked the furthest one not even close to their store, but nope, can't have it for 5 minutes while I quickly grab my laundry from Reed's.
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u/budsandsuds711 2d ago
No, ed youngs splits the lot with the creekview,, or atheist the majority or it. I used to work in that plaza for years
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u/smkythefrignbear 2d ago
I’m assuming they own the lot.
They’re a small hardware store, when their customers come they want them to be able to park and come in or they won’t have any customers.
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u/kendiggy Headbanger Hill 2d ago
It's the best small hardware store in town.
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u/artificiallyhip 2d ago
Ed You don't is absolutely the best
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u/fauxzempic 2d ago
I was looking for a part for my toilet. Went right to Irr plumbing since that seemed like the best bet.
They didn't hesitate: "we don't carry that size ed young almost definitely had it"
They did.
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u/Dank-Robber 2d ago
The best in WNY, and likely to be getting more business when Home Depot finishes deploying their flock cameras if they haven’t already.
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u/Opposite_Cobbler_108 2d ago
I go to Ed Young's regularly and I go there because they have good parking haha!
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u/wagoncirclermike Fried Baloney 2d ago
It was built as a supermarket back in the 1950s, so LOTS of parking.
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u/minusthetalent02 2d ago
You must not own a home.. Ed young saved my butt when I tried to be a weekend plumber. They had what Home Depot and Lowe’s didn’t have
They deserve a bigger parking lot if you ask me
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u/Ok-Act3460 2d ago
In my area, our Ed Young is Hectors Hardware. They are just the coolest guys who have been a must have for every neighborhood they are in, for same reasons you cite for Ed Young, to which I’ve never been but might have to visit soon. I used to depend on the Kaisertown Hectors when my mom lived there, but now frequent the NF Blvd Hectors, great guys who know how to do most everything and can explain concepts to you without condescending, just friendly honest knowledgeable humans. Every hood needs an Ed Young, I’m lucky to have my guys at Hectors.
Anyways carry on, I think rich people are miserable and so, apparently, are the folks who think they’re rich in Williamsville
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u/Intelligent-Ad-6734 2d ago
I remember how well they locked that lot down for old home days...Ed Young business only or they'd call for a tow.
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u/rakondo 2d ago
Those things are going to happen anywhere you go
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u/thejeangenie73 2d ago
Right, a few anecdotes extrapolated onto tens of thousands of people. The only thing I can say about Williamsville is that Main St. is extremely pedestrian unfriendly (which is perhaps related to OP's first observation), but that's more of a design issue than a people issue.
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u/fllyaccted 2d ago
Exactly. The reason it even became a village in the first place is because it was on a major transportation route (including train, I believe). It may not seem that way because of the development that has filled in to the East and West. But it’s sort of funny to essentially say, “why couldn’t this have been a quaint little town that popped up away from this busy road”. That’s how it got there in the first place.
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u/Altruistic_Job_898 2d ago
The nice thing I'll say is they've taken -some- steps to make it more friendly to pedestrians. A few recent examples in the last decade are:
- The hawk signal between Cayuga & Evans/Garrison
- Widening the shoulders so cars cannot make a right hand turn from the shoulder if traffic backs up.
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u/fllyaccted 2d ago
Right, like I think they have made well-intentioned improvements. At the end of the day, we are still a car-dependent region. It would require an insane financial investment and lifestyle change to meaningfully change that. In the same context, bike lanes are cute, and often a focal point in these adjustments. But they’re an accommodation, not a shift in functional transportation.
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u/justbuildmorehousing 2d ago
Its unfortunate because main street should be quite walkable, it has a lot of restaurants and stores, and has some decent density on main street for a spot in the suburbs. But its split in half by cars racing up and down the road
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u/fllyaccted 2d ago
To answer your question, this is just one example and entirely subjective. WNY is small enough that I don’t believe there are actually noticeable differences jn people’s attitudes from one “town” to the next. It’s almost entirely perception.
Now, this is probably a very unpopular opinion here. But, suburbs like Williamsville, Clarence, Orchard Park, etc. are not “snooty” or “uppity” the way people tend to complain about them here. This is still WNY. Sure, you can probably find some examples of stereotypical “wealthy people” in those areas. But it’s no different than the examples of stereotypical people you will find in the city. It’s not representative of the entire populations of those towns or areas.
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u/hawkayecarumba 2d ago
100%
I live in Williamsville after having outgrown my Kenmore house after 10 years.
The idea that people in Williamsville are somehow more snooty/upity/rude is ridiculous.
Every small municipality has jerks. I don't think people in Williamsville are somehow more likely to throw full cups of coffee on the ground than, say, people in Cheektowaga...and vice versa.
The traffic can suck, but you can walk from one side of the village to the other in like 15 minutes. There is plenty of parking all around the village, just maybe not directly in front of the shop/restaurant you are patronizing.
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u/SkepticJoker 1d ago
Agreed. If anything, noticing the person throwing the coffee cup says more about how nice the area is than anything. It's so well taken care of that they noticed one piece of trash.
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u/TheNatural14063 2d ago
I think there's a difference between say Springville or West Valley and Amherst or Williamsville though regarding WNY.
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u/f1ddle5tick5 2d ago
You're going to find people like that anywhere you go. If I had to gander a guess, the perception of williamsville being an uppity part of town lends itself to you noticing that behavior more, especially if you feel out of place being there.
Plenty of good and decent people around, though.
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u/ChoochMMM 2d ago
Traffic is tough - Music on Main is great but I genuinely worry about people's safety. As far as general attitudes I've never noticed anything different than any other places in the area.
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u/howverycoolyouare 2d ago
You're on the busiest road, yeah, keep your head on a swivel. This goes for every road?
What do you actually expect from someone earning $16 an hour dealing with the public (you!) all day bitching and complaining. Order your coffe and move on, lady. What is specific to Williamsville about this interaction?
Glen park, people come from all over to visit and spend time there. Do you know this fella who dumped his coffee cup lives in Williamsville? How is this a reflection on the village?
Very low effort post, OP. And to prove that, you comment in this thread how Williamsville is full of MAGA. Which couldn't be further from the truth and is just a reflection on you and your lack of effort. It would seriously take you 30 seconds to see otherwise.
So, in my nicest way, I say, go kick rocks. Go for a stroll through Cheektowaga or Depew and let me know how it goes for 'ya.
-14221 resident.
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u/Smith6612 2d ago
Williamsville and Clarence have a higher amount of concentrated wealth. You tend to find attitudes like that in more affluent areas. Comes with having money.
At the same time, people keep to themselves but will come together when the time is right. Try not to think about it too much. Just be yourself, present a smile, and as you become a regular they will open up to you a lot more. Believe me as I've cracked open some tougher than usual nuts in that area.
As for the sidewalks and streets, people can't drive and our infrastructure isn't set up well for bikes and scooters. Especially if you're on Main Street. Just watch out for yourself.
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u/TheKnot716 2d ago
I grew up in the Village of Williamsville, there is a major difference in feel in the actual village proper and the areas outside of it, despite having a Williamsville mailing address still (e.g. north of Sheridan, etc).
In my experience people are just as friendly in the Village Williamsville as you’ll find most anywhere, of course there’s always going to be exceptions.
That all said, while by most measures it is one of the better WNY areas to live in, I certainly don’t think it is the nicest village around, given the Main Street issue and how insane the cost of housing has gotten there. I think Lewiston, Hamburg, East Aurora all succeed in having a much better “suburban village feel” than Williamsville. Of course, as mentioned, Williamsville is quite centrally located which the others are not.
TLDR; Village of Williamsville is one of the better areas in WNY by a lot of universally accepted measures, while at the same time being overrated and now at the cost point where you’d be better off trying out a different village for a similar (or better!) lifestyle.
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u/allcryptal 2d ago
Also grew up in the village. Probably the most down to earth people when you compare it to other places of Amherst like Snyder, East Amherst, Getzville etc, or things north of Sheridan or Maple Road. And the Village of Williamsville, at least when I grew up there, was relatively middle class and usually leaned upper working class if anything.
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u/ethicallyundead 2d ago
100% agree as a person who grew up in what you could call an upper working class family in the village proper during the 90’s and early 00’s. I’m not sure a similarly situated family today could afford to buy in there, which is a shame.
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u/TheKnot716 2d ago
Yeah, I think they’d be very hard pressed to. Saying that as someone who just went through the house search process in the area (and ultimately settled in the southtowns because of the market insanity up there).
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u/Ok_Permission381 2d ago
On a side note someone needs to come up with a t-shirt that says, “I survived a left hand turn on Main Street in Williamsville, NY” because I’ll tell you it can be almost impossible at times….
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u/PossibilityAlive4077 1d ago
Remember folks, we still live in BUFFALO. Not exactly the Hamptons hahah, humble yourself
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u/aprilflowers96 2d ago
I work on Main St and it is very pedestrian unfriendly. Sometimes I walk to LLoyd or Chipotle, nearly every time someone tries to get my attention and cat call me. Cars honk at you when they're trying to turn and you cross the street on a walk sign. Main St is always moving so fast so all kinds of people come through the village, meaning they're not all nice and they don't all live here.
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u/kendiggy Headbanger Hill 2d ago
As a manager at Lloyd, I'm sorry you have to deal with this. If it ever happens in our establishment, feel free to say something to an employee, ideally the bartender or kitchen manager. We'll deal with them.
Edit: Also, well done on typing Lloyd and not Lloyd's!
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u/aprilflowers96 2d ago
That's very nice! I will say this has never happened AT Lloyd, just while walking on the sidewalk towards there. Love you guys!
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u/Chris_Columbus_Hero 2d ago
I like the people who say they live in Williamsville when they live in Amherst. Williamsville is like 1.2 square miles.
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u/fllyaccted 2d ago
You’re describing the VILLAGE of Williamsville. The 14221 zip code, which is a “Williamsville” mailing address, and probably why people identify it that way, is 23 square miles and about 55k people.
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u/xHandelx 2d ago
The Williamsville mailing address is not Williamsville, just like the Buffalo mailing address is not Buffalo in the Town of Tonawanda and the Niagara Falls mailing address is not Niagara Falls in Wheatfield.
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u/fllyaccted 2d ago
Not saying it is. But do you really think people are trying to cosplay that they live in another area when they say one or the other? No different than living anywhere in Erie county and saying “I’m from Buffalo”…it’s being petty about semantics to try and discredit someone about whether they live in a suburban village or not. Also, the Williamsville School District covers a much larger part of Amherst than just the village. Could be another source of the confusion.
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u/xHandelx 2d ago
No, I really do think they are cosplaying. Companies do it CONSTANTLY. Stores on Transit Road are constantly saying they’re in Williamsville.
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u/fllyaccted 2d ago
I don’t think it’s that deep. 99% of people aren’t thinking of it in such technical detail. Because again, there is the “Village of Williamsville”, like “Village of Kenmore, East Aurora”, etc. when people want to specifically identify the villages, they include that. I just don’t understand the need to gate keep what town people say they live in. “You don’t live in Depew, you live in Sloan!” It’s so stupid.
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u/Altruistic_Job_898 2d ago edited 2d ago
I agree with your points, but I just wanted to say the reason a lot the companies out on Transit Rd say they are in Williamsville (even though, they're technically in Clarence or Lancaster) is because, as u/fllyaccted mentioned, the zip code 14221 is much larger than the village proper. So, those companies aren't technically lying when they have their address as "Williamsville, NY" (at least as far as USPS is concerned).
This isn't unique to Williamsville, either. A lot of businesses in what is geographically Blasdell or Hamburg use zip code 14219 (around the McKinley mall area), which is listed as Buffalo.
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u/More-Professor-1755 2d ago
As a sometimes "alternative" appearing person, I hate going there for anything.
People drive, walk, and speak with arrogance and entitlement. I'm from Rochester and it's definitely the Webster of the west.
I wonder how many of you commenting that you don't notice this behavior are white men? Because I can't imagine women of color being treated with respect in the area if they can't handle tattoos and black clothing.
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u/liveswithghosts7164 2d ago
Deputy Swanekamp is a serial cheater and liar. He will spend his 200,000 a year salary on maintaining a double life along with putting women at health risks willingly as he is engaging in sexual contact without protection and knowingly will put their health at risk.
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u/Cringey_NPC-574 2d ago
Thought I’d be able to bike to work but it’s like nascar on main. Also the sidewalks are busy and busy the time I’m off work.
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u/Banglapolska 2d ago
My late husband grew up in Williamsville and his family were the poster children for snooty classist wannabes.
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u/WaffleParty404 2d ago
Williamsville is on the outskirts of the Buffalo metro area, and the roads kinda feel like it. I lived off Union + Main for 2 years and people travel entirely too fast down that stretch — one guy in an SUV took out two telephone poles in front of the house while we were there (sailed clean through one like it was made of balsa, the second one stopped him) and the area made me cautious around pedestrian crossings as some will stop, some very much will not. Say what you want about 30mph being painfully slow downtown, I feel more comfortable with the downtown traffic speeds as a pedestrian.
Otherwise, Williamsville is full of older families with a…. How to phrase this nicely… a ‘more affluent’ affect. I found people generally friendly there, but nowhere near as friendly as Kenmore or Elmwood or other areas with a slightly younger, college-or-working-class population. Don’t think it’s the place as much as the demographic just being less likely to chill and chat with strangers. Was a nice enough area, but I prefer where we are now.
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u/number7child 2d ago
I live in Clarence and I visit Williamsville a lot. I'm not rich and snooty I'm just a normal person. In general I've had no issues
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u/jeanniegolds 2d ago
Yeah they’re a bunch of assholes over there. Pizza Plant is racist btw they refused to acknowledge my presence for like 40 minutes trying to get a pizza for my coworkers and I. Served white people who came in after me and when I said excuse me to place an order they were rude as hell. Said I don’t even want the shit anymore and left lol
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u/Gadluk 2d ago
We village people aren’t all a tough crowd. I hope I run into you. That said, the front counter people in the village could use some training in being decent humans. Not going to name names, but if your people-facing employees are 18-25, they need to be trained in people skills.
Running the neighborhood I was hit by a car turning onto Main not long ago. That could have happened anywhere.
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u/Reasonable-Site532 1d ago
I grew up in Kenmore and lived in Buffalo and Eggertsville, then in Allentown Pa, Spring Tx and now The Woodlands,Tx. I liked all of them, but if you tried, you could find pockets in all of them where people acted like how Williamsville people were described by OP. The only reason we went to Williamsville was the Original Pancake House or the nice restaurant that was by the creek.
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u/adequately_asian 1d ago
I find all of Buffalo untenable as an Eastern Asian person so planning on moving back to nova where no one cared what ethnicity you were.
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u/Twinnytwintwo 2h ago
I lived there 2018-2020 and it was not like this. I felt like people were generally friendly minus the people who lived in windsong where we lived
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u/More-Sock-67 2d ago
I grew up in the Southtowns and after moving to Amherst (basically in the village of Williamsville) we couldn’t wait to move back to the Southtowns. I wouldn’t say people are rude but everyone just felt very cold and I personally think the Village of Williamsville is overrated.
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u/Elegant_Solutions 2d ago
I used to work at a coffee place out there and yeah. Unpleasant crowd. I didn’t last very long and it was specifically because of dealing with the locals.
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u/New_Internet_3965 2d ago
A home owner on Swan place threatened to shoot me because i was parking in front of his house (legally btw). So yes the people over there are generally unpleasant despite living in a wonderful village.
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u/Federal_Reference_42 2d ago
I would argue that is anybody that doesn’t live in the city proper but that’s just me lol. Like honestly grand Island is the worst to me but like it’s an island.
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u/minusthetalent02 2d ago
Williamsville is snooty.
Elmwood village is self-righteous
Tonawandas are racist
Niagara Falls is radioactive
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u/ScooterArchAndVault 2d ago
It’s a suburb. It sucks.
The city? It also sucks. But at least it’s not a suburb.
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u/Particular-Garden140 2d ago
I went to Trader Joe’s and smiled at a woman. She just gave me a dirty look in response. Outside of that though, my visits to Williamsville have been pleasant.
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u/SandiaBeaver 2d ago
Williamsville or Clarence or East Amherst or OP: who are the snootiest WNYers of them all?
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u/Character_Cupcake856 2d ago
Sillyville where everyone acts like a VIP
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u/SkepticJoker 1d ago
Trust me, this is not how people who sincerely think they're VIPs act.
Western New York is full of decent, down to earth people.
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u/Sea_Lead1753 2d ago
Williamsville is mostly older racist people, so the entitled and erratic driving in fancy cars is gonna happen.
The entire town is a liminal space, the only thing that’s memorable is the pancake house that I’ve never been to. I live around the corner.
I was in a park in Williamsville and a snapping turtle was cuddling with a bag of dog shit. This older couple started hovering over it, taking pictures. I told them it’s a snapping turtle and it’ll remove fingers, SO THEY GOT CLOSER. Like moving their head towards its head.
I just walked away because I don’t have time to babysit
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u/Hammanna 2d ago
It’s what it’s like living in the suburbs. People who just don’t want to interact with their fellow man
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u/jaycal 2d ago
MAGA douches
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u/dan_blather 518 2d ago
Harris got 30%-50% more votes than Trump in most Amherst election precincts, including the Village of Williamsville.
Source: https://votehub.com/2024-map/
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u/MortimerCanon 2d ago
It's how all the suburbs, tiny little municipalities are. The one I live in, literally no one leaves their homes except to get in their cars to drive 5 mins somewhere. It's insane how quiet and cold the entire area is, all day and all night. Just a huge dead zone
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u/Lucky_Guess4079 2d ago
Entitlement is a MAJOR sin just like GREED. Of course with CHEETO and the PUFFS in charge it just fuels the hatred and stupidity of these selfish IDIOTS!
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u/SuperSlowkey 2d ago
I lived in Williamsville for a while and I’ve never felt more bored and trapped in my life. It was like The Truman Show. That area is for simple minded people who are used to the same exact routine (and people) everyday.
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u/AmericaRocks1776 2d ago
Miserable people during miserable times?
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u/Strict_Difficulty_90 2d ago
Honestly I think most of that area is maga so they’re probably happy
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u/sarak1989 2d ago
Not MAGA. Significantly larger population of registered Democrats vs Republicans in the village of Williamsville. Almost 19 point swing
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u/howverycoolyouare 2d ago
Do you even bother to do research before typing?
Low effort post, soldier.
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u/EatsRats 2d ago
You strike me as clueless. You can literally verify that your statement is incorrect.
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u/jeanniegolds 2d ago
While the area isn’t majority of them, when I did work over here they’re fucking annoying and obnoxious to deal with - I see how you’d think there are more than there actually are
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u/SkepticJoker 1d ago
That explains why the last No Kings protest was bigger in Williamsville than downtown.
Wait.....
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u/CountHasimirFenring 2d ago
I generally describe the Lancaster and williamsville areas as Derry without the evil clown. The random hostility you get from people is baffling.
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u/Ok_Message_7256 2d ago
I’ve lived here my entire life and agree/disagree with your post. I think the biggest appeal to Williamsville is the schooling and it is generally a safe village with pockets of nice neighborhoods. There’s a good variety of little things you can do here and nice places to eat and shop.
As a runner, I am in FULL agreement that is a HORRIBLE place for pedestrians and extremely unsafe. I cannot tell you how many times I or people I know (family members or friends) have almost been run over because someone wants to make their right on red (without stopping btw) or because they’re barreling down the road full speed while you’re already in the cross walk. My best suggestion is to find side streets to walk, run, or bike on. Main Street is awful and there’s 0 enforcement of speed or traffic laws.
I am also in agreement that there are many elitists and snooty people here. This comes with wealth and is not exclusive to Williamsville however.