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View Poll Results: What would you do as a first time buyer?
Great House/Crap Town 4 9.09%
Crap House/Great Town 40 90.91%
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Old 11-09-2017, 08:38 PM
 
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Worst house in the best neighborhood always. Id rather have a shack in Roslyn than a mansion in Wyandanch.
You, sir (ma’am?), are in luck: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1...31084670_zpid/
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Old 11-10-2017, 12:15 AM
 
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It depends because our standards of what a "crap town" is differ. I think we would all agree that Wyandanch is bad, however there are a lot of other areas we frequently disagree on here.
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Old 11-10-2017, 07:27 PM
 
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And low, low taxes of $9400

Never thought that a “large lot” meant a quarter acre.
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Old 11-10-2017, 08:28 PM
 
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^^^ And you can't even tear the POS down since its in a historic district..
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Old 11-11-2017, 06:16 AM
 
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^^^ And you can't even tear the POS down since its in a historic district..
Doesn't say anything about can't burn it down.
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Old 11-11-2017, 10:36 AM
 
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Doesn't say anything about can't burn it down.
Spark when you were using the heat gun while removing paint? It happens.
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Old 11-12-2017, 11:11 AM
 
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On Long Island, if you have no kids, go for the great house in a crap town. It really doesn't matter since on LI you drive to buy all your stuff if you're not ordering online, and the rest of your free time is consumed by the LIRR/MTA.
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Old 11-12-2017, 12:26 PM
 
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Need to understand what is meant by a "crappy town" and "great town." I would think neither of these descriptions are referring to areas that are not relatively safe. I see really nice neighborhoods (e.g. Westbury especially above Northern State Pkwy) that has been referred to as crappy on this site.
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Old 11-13-2017, 03:01 PM
 
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Need to understand what is meant by a "crappy town" and "great town." I would think neither of these descriptions are referring to areas that are not relatively safe. I see really nice neighborhoods (e.g. Westbury especially above Northern State Pkwy) that has been referred to as crappy on this site.
Westbury isn't the greatest... it's not Hempstead but I would rank it as one of the more crappier towns on LI... I wouldn't say it's "really nice"... it's decent


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Old 11-14-2017, 01:05 AM
 
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Westbury isn't the greatest... it's not Hempstead but I would rank it as one of the more crappier towns on LI... I wouldn't say it's "really nice"... it's decent


JMO
It doesn't look crappy to me, except for the area around the garbage dumps, which looks crappy in an industrial way and not a run down way
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