To all asking about Long Island neighborhoods (Jericho, Nassau: real estate, insurance)

[Egobop]

I am amazed by the amount of posts asking how specific neighborhoods are on Long Island. Here is some advice; do research on the neighborhood on your own. I am sure you can find out crime statistics, school information and nearly anything else you want to know about a neighborhood through web searches.

Nearly every neighborhood you will ask about in these forums will give you mixed opinions. You are going to get people that tell you the area is no good and others that tell you it is great. You have no way of telling which people actually live in the neighborhood you are asking about and how many people do not live there but are giving an opinion about the area anyway.

Anyone looking to move to a new area should spend some time looking at maps and driving around the area at different hours on different days of the week.

I am not saying that people should not ask about different areas in these forums if they want to. I am simply saying that it is nearly impossible to get a really good idea of how the area is when you will get conflicting information on nearly any area you ask about.

[KENNY GUIDO]

anyone is welcome to come here and ask advice from us. we dont have to live in roosevelt, wyndanche, uniondale or brentwood to tell you that its bad. its common sense.

some people dont have time to drive around all day, or night, through neighborhoods. the internet was made to reduce time for things like this.

[KellyFG]

I agree with both of the previous posters to an extent.

I always suggest that people do the majority of the research on their own, and honestly when it comes to buying a home if you can't find the time to do the homework you probably will get screwed. What's good for me may not work at all for someone else, but there's an azz for every seat when it comes to home buying.
For example most people in Western Suffolk or Nassau will say my town is "bad" yet most have never been here & probably couldn't even find my town with the assistance of GPS. Most people on CD will say Jericho is the best, I say you couldn't pay me to live there, neither is right or wrong. They are opinions and all valid.
I do think that asking questions on CD or any other message board can be extremely useful for people relocating from another area or if someone has specific questions about an area they've already researched on their own.

So I say ask away, but *try* to do a little legwork on your own first & please don't just ask if a town is good or bad.

[djdairyp]

You have to be the most wary of the advice from people that actually live in that neighborhood. Those living there tend to think its the greatest place in long island and will defend it to the death no matter what anyone else says. I mean they chose to live there so they want to validate their decision.

[KellyFG]

Originally Posted by djdairyp

You have to be the most wary of the advice from people that actually live in that neighborhood. Those living there tend to think its the greatest place in long island and will defend it to the death no matter what anyone else says. I mean they chose to live there so they want to validate their decision.

I do not think that is always true. I know of plenty of people on CD that are honest about whatever shortcomings their town has, every town has SOMETHING that is less than perfect. I'd take the opinion of someone living somewhere over the opinion of someone who's brother's cousin's sister-in-law lived there 26 years ago and said it was bad. KWIM?

[djdairyp]

Originally Posted by KellyFG

I do not think that is always true. I know of plenty of people on CD that are honest about whatever shortcomings their town has, every town has SOMETHING that is less than perfect. I'd take the opinion of someone living somewhere over the opinion of someone who's brother's cousin's sister-in-law lived there 26 years ago and said it was bad. KWIM?

Not talking about the comparison of the opinions of two people. When you have 8 posts about how a certain area has problems and then you get someone coming in saying, 'you people are all wrong, I live there, it is great' be skeptical.

[Denicio]

I always say "just because I ask for advice, doesn't mean I am going to take it." Sometimes you can find nuggets of useful information in piles of useless anecdotes. I agree that this forum should not be a one-stop for all information pertaining to neighborhoods that you might be considering, but a subset of all of your research. Some times the information on these boards can lead you to research something you were unaware of like proximity to a landfill, having no local target (oh no!), or challenges getting insurance.

[ianwaters]

Basically Egobop is saying if you have a question don't ask, just go and find out for yourself. This is great advice and really eliminates the need for the human interaction that exists on CD as well as the internet itself! haha Egobop - why don't you be the first to stop coming to this forum?

[jmax]

I don't really understand the original post. These are discussion forums - if people don't ask questions or post comments - City data wouldn't exist. This site is part of people doing their own research. After being on this site long enough you know who is full of crap, you know who is genuine, you know who is here to start trouble, you know who is on here to push their real estate business, etc... You decide who you want to listen to for input/advice and who you want to ignore.

[PONYPULR]

"do research on the neighborhood on your own."

Isn't this forum website a "research" source??? Of course, anyone looking at an area to move to, would physically go look at and research that area, but this is an interesting and quick way to get a feel for it.