<p>Katia: I know Buffalo pretty well. The nicest, safest parts of Buffalo are roughly equivalent to Hyde Park. That doesn’t mean Hyde Park is some kind of urban Utopia. It means that it’s a nice neighborhood in a city, with some poor neighborhoods not that far away. If you were comparing it to some utterly wealthy suburb/exurb, like Greenwich CT or Scarsdale NY or Lincoln MA, it could seem urban and dangerous. If you’re comparing it to Buffalo, it’s like the area around Delaware Park, or near the South Campus of UB.</p>