why has everyone complained about long island (Albany: home, to buy)

[stevej64]

GCGUY I know what your saying 55 and over paying taxes no kids in school.by saying you cannot live somewhere because you are not 55 is age discrimanation right.If someone said to you can't use you because your over 55 look some where else for a job what would you call it.

[monick]

long island is cool what part of li are you guys talking about i like nassau county and freeport

[Dedalus]

Originally Posted by momix5

My taxes when I purchased my home 8 years ago were half of what they are now, how is this type of tax hike explained? The materialistic point of view is alive and well on Long Island. People here can be ruthless over materialism.

Here's one explanation: they just sentenced another one of these thieves who stole 50K + from the taxpayers. He got five years - suspended.

Show me a sour apple tree and give me a rope - I'll give him a "suspended sentence."

[GCGuy]

Yes, LI is perhaps the only place in the country with corruption. Damnit.

[Dedalus]

Originally Posted by GCGuy

Yes, LI is perhaps the only place in the country with corruption. Damnit.

No, not really.

But it is one of those places where corrupt people wind up being judged by their old frat buddies and court house cronies. San Francisco, CA is even worse in this respect.

[GypsySoul22]

Yes, I agree about the corruption. These sleezebags steal from the schools and then you see them on the news grinning like chimps (sorry chimps) and acting like 'so what you caught me.'

What sort of message does this send out to our kids?

[Dedalus]

Originally Posted by GypsySoul22

What sort of message does this send out to our kids?

I guess the message my girlfriends kid's picked up.

I try to talk to him about business opportunities - there are some great ones, right now. But, he's completely bought into this "rip-off" mentality, where anyone who's not a criminal, sports star or hip-hop singer is some kind of a sucker.

[Mopic5]

Long Island has certainly changed in the 40 years since I left. There is also a great deal that hasn’t. Nassau was pretty close to being developmentally maxed out when I left. Now, with the L.I. population doubled since 1966, development has simply pushed Eastward – no real super congestion – just expanded congestion. Returning often to Long Island, I continue to find a wealth of beauty in its shores, barrens, immature rivers and estuaries, as well as its lively, well-meaning people.
It is of these lively, well-meaning people that I think a little light on how preconceptions from afar about New Yorkers were irrevocably been changed the day those Towers came down. The airwaves brought into homes nationwide a peek at New Yorkers, many of them Long Islanders, that upset long held prejudgments about rudeness, arrogance and aloofness. Here were people with their hearts on their sleeves - with extended ties to their families, communities and to strangers. This was a glimpse of a close-knit New York fabric woven in times of trouble, a big jump from “when the lights went out”. It’s the main reason I’m coming back.

Sustainable growth with the challenges to the water table, transportation, zoning and the overall quality of life will leave some tough issues in the near future. Long Island holds no patent on corrupt politicians, and yet in the confusing jurisdiction of village, town, county and state governments, it seems to me to me that Long Island has managed its growth surprisingly well, with excellent schools overall and extended public support services. Entitlements are in the eyes of the beholder whether it’s lower taxes or more services, and this gets confounded with infighting over who is entitled to entitlements. But in a future world where even the granddaddy of entitlements (SS) is so uncertain, it might seem wiser to hang in this together for the future. Pollyanna? Quite possibly. But I’m getting on and I count my entitlements pretty simply these days: a good companion, a returned smile from a stranger, and casting out at the Orient Gut for strippers.

[Chella]

I love Long Island also and wouldn't live anywhere else. The taxes are the worst part, other than that.. LI is wonderful.

[windflower]

Originally Posted by Mopic5

ePollyanna? Quite possibly. But I’m getting on and I count my entitlements pretty simply these days: a good companion, a returned smile from a stranger, and casting out at the Orient Gut for strippers.

Oh my, I'm having a major fit of the giggles here as a result of the last word in that sentence.... I know you meant to write "stripers", as in striped bass, but the mental picture of hordes of fishermen lining up waiting for the next "school" of X-rated dancers to swim by is just simply.... priceless.

Thanks for the best laugh I have had this month!