What can you tell me about Copiague? (Islip, Babylon: homes, buying)

[MataLeao3]

copaigue is mainly latino and polish, with pockets of white an african american. Not the best town, not the worst town.

[lauricellac]

I've heard that a white trash town, alot of poor white people but I heard from Grandma that the Polish are cleaning up some of Copaigue

[DawnSells]

Rough. Move on to your next choice.

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by lauricellac

... but I heard from Grandma that the Polish are cleaning up some of Copaigue

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Would that be the Polish Catholics or the Polish Jews?
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[orchid924]

Originally Posted by Walter Greenspan

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Would that be the Polish Catholics or the Polish Jews?
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Religion?

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by orchid924

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Religion?

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To this day, many, if not the majority of, Polish Catholics do not consider Polish Jews, Poles.
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[orchid924]

Who are these majority of Polish Catholics? Polish-Americans who don't even speak polish? Or polish people living in Poland? Have you even been to Poland? I'm 100 Polish and I don't understand what you are trying to say.

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by orchid924

Who are these majority of Polish Catholics? Polish-Americans who don't even speak polish? Or polish people living in Poland?

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Yes.

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[krewat]

Originally Posted by Jay68442

As others have mentioned, if you are looking in that area Lindenhurst would be a much better option.

I have to concur. Copiague has always had a "sketchy" reputation (to borrow a term from another thread here).

There are, as in most towns, good places to live, but remember the public schools will contain kids from "both sides" of town. Which is not always a bad thing.

To the original poster, Lindenhurst has decent schools, and you can find a house at both ends of the spectrum very easily. Go north for lower-end, go south for higher-end (to a point), and somewhere in the middle in the Village of Lindenhurst, you can find some outrageously priced houses that I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole

Oh, and beware the busing environment with Lindenhurst schools. If you don't mind trekking your elementary school-age kids every day, or don't live far enough from the high-school or middle school, it's fine. But they recently did a shady deal with increasing the busing limits that puts almost every elementary-school kid inside the busing limit, and put even more middle- and high-school kids off the buses. Meaning, the traffic will be even MORE unbearable than it already was near the schools at beginning and end of day. It's going to be interesting to see what Wellwood Ave looks like at 8AM in the morning near the middle school. It was already unpassable for about 15 minutes at 8AM and 3PM, but now? Unbelievable.

[hotkarl]

Avoid it like it was Co*plague*...heh heh...