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unfortunately home rental prices are very high, and usually the housing stock is pretty poor. For the amount of money they want for these things you could be paying a mortgage.
Hate to be a nit-picker but don't we live ON Long Island, not IN Long island? Sorry but that just sounds wrong!
So OP you will be living ON Long Island! Hope you find a nice place!
Don't shoot me- I'm a word freak.
Yup, OP, you'll be living on Long Island and you'll be living in a city, village or hamlet on Long Island.
What people refer to colloquially as "towns" are actually villages and hamlets, which are within actual towns; and, because villages and hamlets are referred to as "towns", then, many times, the error is compounded when actual towns are referred to as "townships".
Also, many colloquially refer to a "downtown business district" in a hamlet as a "village".
You can get a fact sheet for any city, village or hamlet on Long Island by going here American FactFinder and input the name of the city, village or hamlet for "city/town" (leave out the ZIP Code) and New York for "State", and then click "GO".
You'll get a lot of demographic, and some economic, statistics for the city, village or hamlet you selected, and if you click on "Reference map" (it's on the right hand side), you'll get a map.
When you do find a house that you like, you can find out in which community (city, village or CDP) that house is actually located, which is oftentimes different from the community named in that house's mailing address, by using the Census Bureau's online address search function. (CDP or Census Designated Place is the Census Bureau equivalent for a hamlet in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.)
And, very importantly, among other things, the Census Bureau's online address search function also indicates in which school district an address is located.
What about Rhode Island? If long island were to become a state it would be the same mass but classified differently.
Interesting--you're right; as a State it would be in, because the name no longer refers to the land formation, but instead to the governmental classification of an area.
Interesting--you're right; as a State it would be in, because the name no longer refers to the land formation, but instead to the governmental classification of an area.
By the same token, you can say you either live "in" Staten Island or "on" Staten Island and be technically correct, since Staten Island is both the name of an island and the name of one of the 5 boroughs of New York City, also known as Richmond County.
By the same token, you can say you either live "in" Staten Island or "on" Staten Island and be technically correct, since Staten Island is both the name of an island and the name of one of the 5 boroughs of New York City, also known as Richmond County.
Hate to be a nit-picker but don't we live ON Long Island, not IN Long island? Sorry but that just sounds wrong!
So OP you will be living ON Long Island! Hope you find a nice place!
Don't shoot me- I'm a word freak.
Actually my friend wrote a blog about this...he thought it was ON, as did I, but to both of our surprises...it's IN. It sounds weird, but that's the way to say it.
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