You also compared it to Memphis speak on that breh
They are like sister cities separated at birth, there's a kindred spirit among the locals that is really familiar...
Some of the more noticeable similarities start with the tension between the white and black populations, two of the worst cities I've been to with this. Lot of mistrust and racism and the two communities operate within the same atmosphere buy separate. If you're into psychology and sociology of human behavior it is interesting to watch and they are very alike in this way....
The way they rally around their sports and culture is parallel, too. Memphis is a basketball city and breathe Tigers basketball, then Grizzlies, then high school, I mean the entire prep to pro basketball culture in Memphis is as big there as it is anywhere in America, excluding nobody. Buff is the same way with the Bills, then the Sabres, then I'd say UB sports and everything else is next. But the diehard fandom of local teams is deeply rooted and the same way you see white people acting at Bills and Sabres games, you see the same white people at Tigers and Redbirds (AAA baseball) games. The city identities of both are very connected to their sports...
And of course the black populations of both are diehard as well...
Elmwood Ave is like riding down Poplar or Union Ave in Midtown Memphis...
The Buffalo Zoo is located at Delaware Park just like Memphis Zoo is at Overton Park, and both are large recreational parks in the middle of the city that are popular with locals...
Both have rich local food culture, rich local music scenes that are self supporting. I would def say Memphis has the stronger black music legacy but Buff has black music history and Memphis has plenty of white music history, but more than anything just the way the two scenes are self supporting and exist in a bubble is fascinating. You can be a local celebrity just blowing up in the city. I first heard of Yo Gotti when I was in 8th grade in Memphis in '02, and never heard of him on a national stage until '06 or so. He was a local legend before he ever was all over national airwaves...
The spirit of the city being everything to natives is the same. People from Buffalo are proud to be from Buffalo, wear it on their sleeves and their chests, live and die with it. Same is said of Memphis, exactly the same, and both cities kinda peaked early to mid 20th century. You see the remnants of that today, the abandonment and lasting legacies of old factories and artifacts in both cities, and even the downtown's kinda look the same, sitting on the rivers, older architecture still in use, etc...
They are all alike bro, these are just what jump to mind, but when I first visited Buffalo I immediately felt like I'd been there before, and the more and more I went it was like being in Memphis in many ways. It looked different, as the architecture and landscape is obviously different being in two different parts of the country, and the weather was different, but all the aesthetic parallels, I couldn't really run out of...
They are probably the two most unassumingly alike cities in the nation, I'd bet on it. The key is getting to know the local culture and the people. A pass thru the airports or a brief stop where you're only doing touristy stuff in either isn't gonna reveal the intrinsic synergy between the two, especially if you're unfamiliar with both (you're familiar with Buff and I'd bet anything you spent some time in Memphis shyt would start jumping out at you)...
But if one has the time to really get in the neighborhoods and be a part of learning the culture for awhile, it becomes really obvious! Both have a similar place in my heart, I don't know that I'd live in Buff long term, gotta take that back, but if and Memphis have a special place for me...
so I don't see much of a difference
Frank's the GOAT...what hot sauce you think is better 
Louisiana? Texas Pete? Those are water downed dollar sauces...
