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I am as frustrated as the next guy when it comes to our usual litany of complaints about our area: cost of living, sky high taxes, traffic, suck a$$people, drug addicts/homeless and lousy politicians. However, reading about other areas it seems like they have similar complaints. So is our area that much worse than the other areas or is every thing relative?
reading about other areas it seems like they have similar complaints.
I think you pretty much answered your own question. ;-)
Other than the high cost of living, which is easily documented with facts and figures, I don't think LI is any "worse" than anywhere else overall. For example I have a friend in California (earthquakes, wildfires, demographics that she doesn't like, summer temps regularly in the triple digits, drought, and not cheap to live there either) who thinks LI sounds like paradise. She'd move here in a heartbeat if not that her husband is adamant they stay where they are, and he holds the purse strings. It's all relative.
I am as frustrated as the next guy when it comes to our usual litany of complaints about our area: cost of living, sky high taxes, traffic, suck a$$people, drug addicts/homeless and lousy politicians. However, reading about other areas it seems like they have similar complaints. So is our area that much worse than the other areas or is every thing relative?
I think everyone suffers from the "grass is greener" syndrome from time to time. Every locale has plusses and minuses, some more than others and in different ratios depending on place. And quite frankly, many of those plusses and minuses are subjective, varying from person to person and perspective to perspective. With that being said, the stresses of living in one of the most densely populated areas in the country, LongIsland, are bound to grind down even the most patient of us, and make the costs of living here outweigh the benefits. To each their own, but in the end is there anything more New York than complaining ? We always want the best and make it known when things aren’t always peachy.
LongIsland is one of the best places to live, hands down. It is indisputable. You will find very few areas globally, let alone in the USA, that offers the amount of amenities, access to world class health care, education (K-12 and college) opportunity, economic stability and opportunity, generally low crime overall, recreational access and worldwide transportation gateways that LongIsland and the tri state area as a whole offers.
NOW...with that said there are plenty of downsides and living here isnt for everybody. Its crowded and bloody expensive, the weather could be better and the region has its fair share of problems to contend with. But its far far from the hellhole that the whiners make it out to be.
LongIsland is one of the best places to live, hands down. It is indisputable. You will find very few areas globally, let alone in the USA, that offers the amount of amenities, access to world class health care, education (K-12 and college) opportunity, economic stability and opportunity, generally low crime overall, recreational access and worldwide transportation gateways that LongIsland and the tri state area as a whole offers.
NOW...with that said there are plenty of downsides and living here isnt for everybody. Its crowded and bloody expensive, the weather could be better and the region has its fair share of problems to contend with. But its far far from the hellhole that the whiners make it out to be.
Curious where else you've lived for an extended period of time to make such a glaringly exaggerated claim... I mean, whoa.
A specific town on LI, sure - maybe. But, that's going to be a relatively short list when compared globally don't you think? So stating that all of LI being the best and indisputable - easily just plain wrong.
People living their every day lives are always going to find something to kvetch about. That's human nature. It's also the reason people move to "wherever" and end up unhappy. They go there on vacation, live it up, have a great time and love it, and forget that when they actually move, they're going to have to pay taxes, plunge the toilet, go grocery shopping, get sick, and all the other crap that happens every day no matter where you live.
That said, when I think to myself "this place is getting to be just like LI" all it takes is a trip back to get my mind straight again.
It really is just a longisland thing. For example two problems were solving themselves, Suffolk's lack of public and affordable transportation and there were people who needed income. Did not take long for one of the vile creatures to come along and do the usual.
In other places the old left vs right republican vs democrat thing is the name of the game. Here its them vs us. The utter contempt of the public by the vile creatures in government is unique to LINY.
Curious where else you've lived for an extended period of time to make such a glaringly exaggerated claim... I mean, whoa.
A specific town on LI, sure - maybe. But, that's going to be a relatively short list when compared globally don't you think? So stating that all of LI being the best and indisputable - easily just plain wrong.
I am as frustrated as the next guy when it comes to our usual litany of complaints about our area: cost of living, sky high taxes, traffic, suck a$$people, drug addicts/homeless and lousy politicians. However, reading about other areas it seems like they have similar complaints. So is our area that much worse than the other areas or is every thing relative?
Everybody's problem is individual, you all just happen to live in the same area
After all, there are ppl who the current set-up still benefits
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LongIsland is one of the best places to live, hands down. It is indisputable.
and where else have you lived (globally and in the US) for comparison purposes?
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? We always want the best and make it known when things aren’t always peachy.
