10 worst town on the island?? (Hempstead, Smithtown: apartment, good schools, to live in)

[sean sean sean sean]

Originally Posted by Dedalus

Ha, ha, ha!

I, until recently, lived there.

Some of the rudest, nastiest people I've ever met in my life. A lot of the way I feel about Long Island is based on my experiences there.

Most of LI is definitely not like Plainview at all...that place is a joke. I could never figure out why people that live there think their poo doesn't stink.

[Astrantia]

Dedalus, if you've been living in Plainview I'm not surprised that you don't like Long Island much.

I've lived on LI all my life and I could never stand living in Plainview or having to deal with the people who live in that area! It's the worst of Long Island stereotypes, times 10!

Please don't let yourself be soured on all of Long Island just because you've been exposed to one of the most annoying exasperating shallow self-centered egotistical sections of it....

[CaseyMack20]

Originally Posted by KellyFG

Here are the ten towns I try to avoid at all costs and in this order
1)Manhasset
2)great neck/kings point
3)Syosset/Jericho
4)Freeport/Baldwin
5)Roosevelt
6)Brentwood
7)Central Islip
8)Gordon Heights
9)Bellport
10)any area just outside an "indian reservation" particularly the Mastic area

ETS-I find the super wealthy "persians" & others like them much more threatening than crackheads or homeless people.

ahahahahahha WOW i thought the person 2 above was ridiculous putting mastic, mastic beach, AND shirley on the list. but JEHRICHO & SYOSETT??? those are like 2 of the richest areas in nassau, are you afraid of jewish people?? then you put MANHASSET, GREAT NECK, AND KINGS POINT, are you afraid of wealthy people??? And BALDWIN??? are you afreaid of diversity??

[KellyFG]

Originally Posted by CaseyMack20

ahahahahahha WOW i thought the person 2 above was ridiculous putting mastic, mastic beach, AND shirley on the list. but JEHRICHO & SYOSETT??? those are like 2 of the richest areas in nassau, are you afraid of jewish people?? then you put MANHASSET, GREAT NECK, AND KINGS POINT, are you afraid of wealthy people??? And BALDWIN??? are you afreaid of diversity??

No I'm not afraid of them, I'd just rather be stuck in Iraq by myself on a Thursday night than try to drive my fuel efficient car down any road in the "rich towns". I'd have a better chace of getting killed by a plastic surgery addicted soccer mom in a land rover that's talking on her cell phone speeding to her pilates class than I would getting hit by a stray bullet in bagdad.
No I'm not afraid of Jewish people, how do you even know what religion I am?
I am wealthy & my neighbors are wealthy....we are happy, hard working, in love with our spouses, our kids know how to swim, fish, hike, we eat dinner together as families, we mow our own grass & eat food we grow. Oh & BTW my retirement is fully funded by the investment properties we own so its NOT about money. That is true wealth to me.

And as for Baldwin I lumped it with Freeport because the MS13 is all spread out over there, I'm not a fan of large gang populations.

[Johninwestbury]

Dont go to East Hills either, loads of tank driving soccor moms. They always hang out at Yogurt & Such in Greenvale. Unfortunately I like the yogurt there, so I put up with them.
Actually I think East Hills is one of the snobbiest places I've been to. They dont even let you into their park!
Plus they have a rent-a-cop force that patrols the village.

[Dedalus]

Originally Posted by VillageOfWestbury

New Cassel uses the Westbury zip code and unfortunately is zoned in the "Westbury" s.d.; however, it's not part of the Village of Westbury (i.e. unicorporated). This is why most folks with kids zoned in the Westbury s.d. send their children to private school...especially from middle school on....

Completely different area/economic bracket that the town of North Hempstead is attempting to revitalize.

I was walking through New Cassel the other day. I think I saw one of those "revitalization" projects. It's a new apartment complex...swarmed over by contractors who have the local pols in their pockets. I can just imagine what the taxpayer is getting soaked for.

If these fat cats got their noses out of the trough, there'd likely be enough money for three apartment complexes.

[Uniondale Resident 5796]

What town is this ?

[Uniondale Resident 5796]

What town is this ?

Originally Posted by a private person

Alas, I live in a town looked down upon by many. Yet I would say that it might meet most or all of your criteria.

a) Been here for 16 years. Biggest problem has been occasional teenager antics, noise and such. But so far nothing serious to complain about.

b) There is much supply and demand. My house has gone up in value every year since we arrived and has been stagnent in price only during this last year. But this is a Long Island problem not isolated to my town.

c) My children have attend these schools their entire life. As they have been in the honors program they have been pampered by the school district. The district test numbers look bad, so the district tries very hard to retain excellent students that raise their scores.

My children are the minorities in a majority minority district. This gives them an advantage over students in more homogenous schools. They have already learned how to interact with people from many different cultures. This will provide them a competitive advantage in the working world.

My elder child will graduate this year in the top 1% of the class. His SAT scores will gain entry into any state college in NY and are so far, good enough for Cornell and Dartmouth.

Plus as most of the students in this district will move directly into the workforce after graduation there are fewer people fighting to be the valedictorian. Thus they can focus on learning and not competing. This is in direct contrast to your "upscale" districts.

d) As the houses in this town are lower priced relative to Long Island there is a strong demand. For the forseeable future, house prices will stagnate or drop across all of Long Island. Where they don't, houses will simply fail to move. But until recently almost every town on Long Island returned a profit on sale within 3 to 5 years with very few exceptions.

e) There are exceptions to any rule, however; the large majority of homes are maintained and are a benefit to the neighborhood.

f) Illegal rentals are in almost every town on Long Island. The problem isn't so much the renter as the landlord. If the landlord allows trash in, the neighborhood has trash. So far my town has not had significant problems with "Illegal Renters"



Frankly, the biggest problem my town has is that it is filled with minorities and the majority in our country doesn't want to live with "those" people. Having been in the minority living among minorities I understand this fully.

Mostly, the people outside of a community hurt it more with their perceptions than do the actions of it's residents.

The bad town I live in has mostly been rebuilt over the last 15 years. There is lots of new business and more than a few very large employers. Yet despite all of this positive change the town has consistenly failed to attract the throngs of people seeking the affordable housing which is here to be found.

True we have our problems here, but, many would be solved if people moved based on their thinking and not their fears.

[Uniondale Resident 5796]

Originally Posted by a private person

Does it really matter the specific name of the town?

It matters. Since you are endorsing this town, why wouldn't you want the name of the town known.

[nancy thereader]

I think it's Central Islip.