31-07-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Buffalo Can Be Hard to Love. For These Former Residents, It Was Harder to Stay Away.
In March, Buffalo, N.Y., native Kyle Roche bought a roughly 8,700-square-foot home for $3.5 million in the city's Elmwood Village neighborhood, setting a new home-sale record.
'When I left Buffalo, I was like, 'If I do well for myself, I have to come back and sort of bring part of that to Buffalo, almost out of this sense of moral duty, because Buffalo made me who I am,'' said Roche, 37, a lawyer who spent around two decades living away from his hometown before deciding to put down roots there again.
