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Seanx4 had a good idea on a thread, so I decided to try to find as many articles as I could from NyTimes "if you're thinking of living in" articles. Some are older articles from the 80's, some more current - all are great reads I think. Here's what I found on LI through a quick scan of the first 35 pages (out of About 34,500 results):
If you want to go through more of them, google "if you're thinking of living in" or go to Nytimes website and search there. I found google to be easier actually by including site:nytimes.com after the search. If you want me to look up a specific town (if you can't find it through the search feature, Direct Message me or ask here and I will search for it). Feel free to add your town in a reply post.
Seanx4 had a good idea on a thread, so I decided to try to find as many articles as I could from NyTimes "if you're thinking of living in" articles. Some are older articles from the 80's, some more current - all are great reads I think. Here's what I found on LI through a quick scan of the first 35 pages (out of About 34,500 results):
If you want to go through more of them, google "if you're thinking of living in" or go to Nytimes website and search there. I found google to be easier actually by including site:nytimes.com after the search. If you want me to look up a specific town (if you can't find it through the search feature, Direct Message me or ask here and I will search for it). Feel free to add your town in a reply post.
Wow did you read about Wynadanch and New Cassel...sounds almost like paradise
"Wyandanch feels suburban: small, close-set houses on narrow streets, mostly well-kept lawns, trees, dogs, children on bikes and cars in driveways. There are some dead-end streets, south of the train tracks and just north of Wyandanch Park, that feel a little more secluded, and are sometimes called the “tree streets” — Cypress, Hickory, Spruce, and so on"
Wow, nice! I just did a search myself and I came up with older results too... wonder why that is? I searched places that I know have been recently (like within the last 3 years) featured in this section, but only got their 1980s counterparts.
BigMike50 is right though, nothing has really changed too drastically. Pretty much all of the information in that nearly 28 year old Five Towns article (aside from the prices) is still accurate.
Wow can you gather anymore outdated information than that on one page
Most of those archives were written 20 + years ago. We are in the age of the internet now... That was kind of like going back home for me and looking through my Mom's encyclopedia britannica form the mid 80's . But then again not much has changed on L.I. over the last 25 years like most said....so maybe that stuff is appropriate for this day and age. Did anyone read those.....every place sounds like utopia. No mention of Civil servant's salaries and benefits, high taxes, traffic, banging in the 6th boro, etc, won't go over here on this board that well...just sayin'
You have to admit, it's sometimes fun to look back to see what has/hasn't changed or to see how some places have a distorted or PC description.
Wow did you read about Wynadanch and New Cassel...sounds almost like paradise
"Wyandanch feels suburban: small, close-set houses on narrow streets, mostly well-kept lawns, trees, dogs, children on bikes and cars in driveways. There are some dead-end streets, south of the train tracks and just north of Wyandanch Park, that feel a little more secluded, and are sometimes called the “tree streets” — Cypress, Hickory, Spruce, and so on"
Almost makes me want to pack up and move there
I think that's all correct, although misleading completely out of context. Does Wyandanch feel urban to you? Or rural? "Suburban" doesn't imply any kind of inherent safety or wealth.
The first few paragraphs talk about how some motorcycle club has set up shop, "in a neighborhood that needs them" and high poverty rates. Isn't it pretty obvious to most people that any place which NEEDS a motorcycle club to fix it's problems probably isn't too hot?
Yes one would like to believe ..something published recently like Farmingdale last week....would be more accurate than one published 25 years or even 10 years ago.
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. But then again not much has changed on L.I. over the last 25 years like most said....so maybe that stuff is appropriate for this day and age. Did anyone read those.....every place sounds like utopia. No mention of Civil servant's salaries and benefits, high taxes, traffic, banging in the 6th boro, etc, won't go over here on this board that well...just sayin'
