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If you want a good paying job then you usually have to make MAJOR sacrifices to work out in Manhattan (expensive and much less time w/family commuting).
Is that really true for everyone? My wife gets on the 630am train and gets home through the door at 515pm. I think the only "major" sacrifice is an hour or two of sleep a day, but she goes to bed by 11. Many get home late, only because they get into work late (9am?). Shift hours if it's possible, which is what she did. There are a LOT of riders with her on the way home before 5pm.
Is that really true for everyone? My wife gets on the 630am train and gets home through the door at 515pm. I think the only "major" sacrifice is an hour or two of sleep a day, but she goes to bed by 11. Many get home late, only because they get into work late (9am?). Shift hours if it's possible, which is what she did. There are a LOT of riders with her on the way home before 5pm.
How long is the ride? If you're in Nassau it won't be too bad but once it gets over an hour it starts to get tedious - especially on the Port Jeff line which is on schedule only around 90% of the time - and that is using the LIRR's generous definition of 'on time'.
How long is the ride? If you're in Nassau it won't be too bad but once it gets over an hour it starts to get tedious - especially on the Port Jeff line which is on schedule only around 90% of the time - and that is using the LIRR's generous definition of 'on time'.
I live on North Shore so I cant speak for the South shore crowd, Any station west of Farmingndale is a easy commute. Express trains from Hicksville get you into Penn and Brooklyn in 40 minutes.
Everyone is just strengthening the argument that many people DO want to be on Long Island, regardless of how crazy expensive and crowded it is.
Really? Not one person in this thread expressed their desire to stay on Long Island.
If this same thread were posted in just about any other regional forum, most of the users there would have passionately defended their region...even in the NYC forum.
1) it's too expensive (supply and demand, barring corrupt gov't nonsense of course)
2) it's too crowded (lot's of new apartments aren't being built for people planning to leave, and no they're not all senior citizens housing)
Sure sounds like a lot of people want to live here. Maybe not the 10 people involved in this thread, but certainly you understand that well over 1 million people in Nassau are NOT part of CD forums.
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For people who work in NYC/Metro area you have to pic your compass pointe and set out to find a way to live. Short of commuting from NEPA you will be dealing with many of the same problems in terms of cost & congestion regardless which point you choose. Perhaps LI gets condemned more is the levels of abusive taxes, fees & corruption(in government) or it's restrictive access to the rest of the world, I don't know.....
Is that really true for everyone? My wife gets on the 630am train and gets home through the door at 515pm. I think the only "major" sacrifice is an hour or two of sleep a day, but she goes to bed by 11. Many get home late, only because they get into work late (9am?). Shift hours if it's possible, which is what she did. There are a LOT of riders with her on the way home before 5pm.
When you run out the door like that every night it is career limiting. Usually women, construction workers and clerks on earlier trains on a regular basis. Which leads to couples having to work two incomes.
Then add in child care, two train tickets, two sets of lunches etc not worth it. It is easy to make 100% more income if one is willing to work the extra 1-2 hours a day and other spouse stays home.
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