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Originally Posted by Coney
It just doesn't work. You'd have to design a completely new type of public transportation system for the millenials who are anti-car. And if they aren't anti-car, that means all those dense apartment houses are going to require additional cars that already clog up our overcrowded roads.
I just read where Millennia's have surpassed Boomers as the main group in this country, their time is beginning and they will be the ones to shape our living environment going forward. I am sure the rise of the nuclear family and migration to the suburbs was just as hard for those that preceded the boomers.
Then jobs in Melville, Hauppauge and stony brook aren't particularly attractive to millenials to begin with. They don't offer that kind of fast trajectory that someone in his 20s to mid 30s would need to become professionally established, before they buy a home in the burbs. Local employers complain they can't match the salaries or entry level job descriptions in nyc. Given the lack of livelihood opportunities, there is no reason for them to move to Dix hills or Smithtown until they become mid managers at which point they are ready to buy single family homes.
I guess I'm outside of that norm then. Much more comfortable with my state job at Stony than riding the train all day for a little bit more money... that I'd undoubtedly lose by paying for a train ticket, paying more into my retirement and benefits, and eating out more because I'm never home during the week.
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Originally Posted by hotkarl
It's good that more people think Suffolk County Ny is nothing but farms, Camaros, and freedom rock. Otherwise Suffolk County Ny would be just like Nassau County Ny.
It's better this way for the people in Suffolk County Ny.
Many people are afraid because they think Suffolk County Ny is still all bikers and bungalows.
I hope it stays that way. I'm moving as far east as possible.
Sorry friend, the east end has been invaded by up islanders.
It has become a cancer and has had a dramatic impact on the QOL out here.
These morons have come out here and brought the same destructive habits with them from up west. It's a damn shame. Go back where you came from, keep your concrete and fuoco and nasty attitude up west we don't want it out here.
The other problem with this model is the lack of transportation. Town centers near LIRR stations are fine for a little entertainment-Starbucks, movie theater, deli, a couple of restaurants, a bar, maybe a Trader Joes. This would all be in a contained area of several blocks near the new apartments. But there's more to a lifestyle than going to a restaurant or getting coffee. In the city, you get on the train or the bus to go cross-town or uptown to get to the doctor, the framer, the big box store, and any other place where you have to get something that you can't get online. Or you can just walk and walk and walk along miles of sidewalk designed for walking. The LIRR is not like the subway. The Long Island buses stink. You must have a car. Otherwise you'll be like some posters here trying to take 3 buses from the south shore to get to a doctor's appointment in the big medical complex in New Hyde Park or the equivalent. It just doesn't work. You'd have to design a completely new type of public transportation system for the millenials who are anti-car. And if they aren't anti-car, that means all those dense apartment houses are going to require additional cars that already clog up our overcrowded roads.
Not everywhere on long island is like that. The 112 corridor from patchogue village to port jefferson is pretty good. There is a bus route that goes from patchogue train station to the south to port jefferson to the north. The bus even stops in the blue ridge condo development. The problem is that this area is too far east for most people.
Yes that building is atrocious. I'm curious to see how it works out.
Shockingly, it has rooftop tennis courts and outdoor space. You'd have a view of Manhattan from that roof, actually. The plans submitted to the village initially showed a MUCH more attractive building. Unsurprisingly, the way it has turned out has turned a lot of residents against any redevelopment in Valley Stream, which is too bad. There are nicer developments than this in the village - The Hawthorne (which is very expensive), the townhomes near the village green and the new apartment building in Gibson, which is "affordable" but a very attractive looking building.
Valley Stream and Lynbrook have both had co-op developments and some rentals for decades that fit in with the fabric of the communities.
Not everywhere on long island is like that. The 112 corridor from patchogue village to port jefferson is pretty good. There is a bus route that goes from patchogue train station to the south to port jefferson to the north. The bus even stops in the blue ridge condo development. The problem is that this area is too far east for most people.
There are a fair number of multifamily housing units on the stretch of 112 near 83 and 25. I hadn't paid much attention to that until very recently. Figure if the people living there have jobs in Haupauge, Riverhead, at SBU/UHSB or BNL, their commute isn't bad at all.
long island is filled with drug addicts now who rob banks, stores, people, break into houses, cars.
Every weekend you hear of some drug addict dying, either OD, or car crash.
You want to raise your kids around here, where the chances of them becoming a heroin addict are pretty high?
so then you have tons of illegals...
drug addicts and illegals...and high taxes for all of this....
corrupt cops, and politicians...
Run...Run while you still can before you get stuck in this place and you wont be able to get out
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