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Just got back from vacation and all I can say is - yup. Coming off the Verrazano Bridge, it's all down hill from there. Not to mention the fact that it took 90 minutes to get from the Verrazano to my house in very western Nassau...I have had enough. It was really depressing coming home.
You said it!
I refer to any of the bridges back to Long Island as the "Gates of Hell" whenever I return from a trip.
I don't see what people are complaining about with costs. My husband and I (no kids yet, mid/late 20s) make a middle class salary, and we still manage to save $1500-2000 a month.
Check back when you have 3 kids, when your property taxes have doubled, and oh - by the way - most of us have to save for our own retirement. That money you're saving is eventually going to be eaten up by your house. Plus, you'll always have to work. You may think now that you want that, but you won't REALLY know till you have kids. And since you're a teacher you'll be missing out on everything that happens in school for them while you're up in the South Bronx.
I do so love remembering what it was like to be 25 though. In a million years at that age I wouldn't have told someone twice my age with totally different life circumstances what they were doing wrong. I guess it's the age-old generation gap.
LI is heavily populated b/c it's a damn good place to live and everyone wants to live here. Period.
Really? I have friends all over the country and even a couple in Europe and none of them want to live here. Not the ones who grew up here and not the ones who grew up somewhere else. Who is this "everyone" of which you speak? 'Cause the only people I see posting on city-data miving here are the ones who have no choice.
I cordially invite this "everyone" that you know to post where they live now and why they wish to move here. Seriously, invite them on over.
The addition of a child will add expenses to a household no matter what the location. How is the Island more worse?
The point is that the cost of housing and basic living here is so much more than anywhere else that there is little discretionary income left over. You must not have kids if you are asking this question. I don't even want to think about what we spend on our kids every month. Single biggest killer right now is groceries - the prices skyrocketed when the price of gas went up last summer and they never came back down. Even my mom says she can't imagine raising kids on LI right now - and she had 5 back in the day.
The addition of a child will add expenses to a household no matter what the location. How is the Island more worse?
Parental expectations here are astronomically high here. If you don't provide every little extra activity, camp, enrichment activity, etc. you are considered a bad parent. Pre-school alone is double the cost what it is upstate where I grew up. Maybe this is just a North Shore thing, but it it way different than what I experienced growing up in Western New York. I don't know, I didn't have all of that and I got good grades and turned out successful. It's just so keeping up with the Joneses to me.
LI is heavily populated b/c it's a damn good place to live and everyone wants to live here. Period.
Just admit that you couldn't afford to live decently in a place you really wanted to live (Manhattan or Brooklyn) and you are trying to justify it by saying LI is so wonderful.
LI is not "Funky", it staid, stuffy and materialistic on the North Shore and trashy, congested and crime ridden in many parts of the central and south shore areas.
LI is not "Funky", it staid, stuffy and materialistic on the North Shore and trashy, congested and crime ridden in many parts of the central and south shore areas.
I don't think you focused on the negatives enough....lol.
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You said the magic word "No kids yet". Call us back in 10 years and see if you feel the same.
People in their 20's are so clueless about the costs of raising a family here.
Well, by the time we have kids, we'll have a lot saved and make about 170,000 combined.
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