Why Long Island Sucks (New York, Smithtown: rent, crime rates, movie theater)

[Dedalus]

Originally Posted by lynne068

Its all the people who are ignorant that like to make the comments about North Carolina...I happen to be moving there from NY and let me say this if some people choose to be house poor and pay the taxes that most people in the Tri-State are that is your problem...for those of us who decided to make a new life elsewhere are living and giving our children more than what we could back home , its people like us that can afford to still live in the area but chose NOT TOO why throw all of our money away on taxes and mortgages when there is more to life than that. i feel real sorry for you...tht you sound very narrow minded to make a comment like that...North carolina is beautiful extremely friendly people affluent areas well peopel arent snotty or stuck up shopping centers are clean and beautiful you certainly cant say that for LI or any other place in NY anymore...15 years ago you sure could have...

You have all my sympathies. My girlfriend's family has lived on LI since before WWII, and they're feeling the pinch, big time. I never meant any of my comments to apply to people like you, or Overtaxed, who's a real gentleman.

Last night I saw this movie I like, "The Best Years of Our Lives." I'd recommend it. There's this scene where a guy, a bank executive, tells off his boss in front of God and everybody, because he got rebuked for making a loan to a man with no collateral...to buy a farm. He tells him that he relied on his judgment of the man's character, that he had to make life and death decisions in the South Pacific based on his judgment...

Some people think it's spiffy sounding and modern to talk about "undesirables", and to flash around some Social Darwinist nonsense that was outdated in 1930.

I don't. I think such talk is downright unAmerican.

[NYTom]

Originally Posted by lynne068

and let me say this if some people choose to be house poor and pay the taxes that most people in the Tri-State are that is your problem...

Just an FYI...

I'm not house poor and I don't have a problem paying the taxes...

[OvertaxedOnLI]

Originally Posted by Dedalus

Last night I saw this movie I like, "The Best Years of Our Lives." I'd recommend it. There's this scene where a guy, a bank executive, tells off his boss in front of God and everybody, because he got rebuked for making a loan to a man with no collateral...to buy a farm. He tells him that he relied on his judgment of the man's character, that he had to make life and death decisions in the South Pacific based on his judgment....

That is one of my favorite movies. Then again, I'm a TCM Channel junkie. At the risk of sounding like an 'old fogy': "They don't make 'em like they used to" (for the most part, anyway). I have five shelves full of movies (on DVD and VHS) -- three of those five are filled with "classics". What I can't understand is why they haven't released 'The African Queen' on DVD; what are they waiting for??

And Dedalus, I thank you for the compliment

[Kathleenh54]

My sister lives in Dix Hills and I go to visit her and her family every year. Our family lived 'on the Island' until I was seven when we moved to Westchester. I LIKE Long Island. Wonderful beaches, lots of convenience, lots of things to do. So the restaurants are a big homogenized. No place is perfect. It's also close enough to the city to go in, enjoy a day at the museum or a night on Broadway, then go home to the grass and trees.

There's so much Long Island bashing on this forum, you'd think it was New Jersey. :-D

[GCGuy]

Originally Posted by Kathleenh54

My sister lives in Dix Hills and I go to visit her and her family every year. Our family lived 'on the Island' until I was seven when we moved to Westchester. I LIKE Long Island. Wonderful beaches, lots of convenience, lots of things to do. So the restaurants are a big homogenized. No place is perfect. It's also close enough to the city to go in, enjoy a day at the museum or a night on Broadway, then go home to the grass and trees.

There's so much Long Island bashing on this forum, you'd think it was New Jersey. :-D

There are a lot of chain restaurants, but I would say the scene on LI is the best it's ever been a lot of great new places open up each year. If you look at the times, this year had the most "very good" selections ever. There are also a number of places the are owned/ran by former top NYC chefs. Forget the Hamptons, there's a lot out there. I think it has a lot of room to grow, but it is getting much better in my opinion. By the way, this wasn't to argue with you, just wanted to put in my 2 cents.

[kinghaas]

I used to live on Long Island and loved it. when it got too built up and it started to take me two hours to get to work I moved to this place called Easton, PA. It was an up and coming area and only just over an hour to my job in Manhatten! Unfortunately others found out about this place and now it is full of developments, malls, snobby New Jersey b*&tc$s and the Long Island women who have 9 inch nails and cheat on their work-a-holic husbands. Give it 10 years and the Iranian Jews will start to set up house here and destroy this area too. At least the taxes here are not what LI Taxes rare (basic colonial is $450,000 with $6k taxes, not too bad....at least for now).

[Joe L]

Originally Posted by kinghaas

9 inch nails and cheat on their work-a-holic husbands. Give it 10 years and the Iranian Jews will start to set up house here and destroy this area too. At least the taxes here are not what LI Taxes rare (basic colonial is $450,000 with $6k taxes, not too bad....at least for now).

Sounds like they are already there ! 9 inch nails, sunglasses, scarves driving dark colored Benz's ?
Shame my girlfriend was from Easton it was a great little mom and pop town. Yes once the Iranian Jews come it's all over. They buy from the old Jewish warn out & retiring to Florida then bring expensive lawsuits when they dont get there way with building codes and variances. They hate and abolish anything green, build with brick, rock and sand to look like there homes in the Mideast.
There are social terrorists IMO. I have had many run-ins with these people, unless your "a brother" they have no respect for you.

In 2007 if you take a boat out on Manhasset bay and look West at the Great Neck coastline it doesn’t look like America but the Nile river bank.
What was once WC Fields, Fred Estaire, Ed King's (all perfectly taken care of Victorians) are all down and replaced with a bank of HUGE sand colored boxes with perhaps 10 bathrooms (judjing from the vent pipes on the roof), domes, no trees, all masonry stone lawns with car ports and gates.

The Iranian Jews own most the North Shore LI Jewish healthcare system. If Easton's local hospital isn’t associated with North Shore LIJ Easton may be OK for a wile.
They are the worst, very agressive and they never seem to sleep or rest.

-joe

[Dedalus]

Jeez, what is it with you guys and the jews?

I think they're terrible, too. They're just as bad as the rest of the Long Islanders.

[Joe L]

Originally Posted by Dedalus

Jeez, what is it with you guys and the jews?

I think they're terrible, too. They're just as bad as the rest of the Long Islanders.

Nothing against Jews in general. It’s these new immigrant Iranian Jews that are doing this more then any other group in Long islands history. Its nessassary to describe the damage and blockbusting as well as what brings these people here.

The Koreans and Chinese are doing there version in Flushing however this is a Long island board.

[NYer]

Originally Posted by Dedalus

Jeez, what is it with you guys and the jews?

I think they're terrible, too. They're just as bad as the rest of the Long Islanders.

Well they are railing against Iranian Jews in particular.

Yeah, they are obnoxious, to Americans - Jewish, Christian, whatever. Their tastes, culture & customs seem to steamrolll over "our culture"


Who are these people? These are people who have been PERSECUTED in Iran! These people have fled for their lives from Iran for decades.

So, that is a peek at the bigger picture folks, you may not want to live in the same town with them but they have been through hell & want to live somewhere safe.