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This house looks cute and the price isn’t bad. Is it a safe area though?
It's totally safe. This is in the Midland Beach area. For Staten Island, most of it is fine. It's only parts of the North Shore where there are housing projects that safety becomes an issue, and even most of the North Shore is fine where you have homeowners. That said, overall, Staten Island has a very low crime rate.
This house looks cute and the price isn’t bad. Is it a safe area though?
People keep bouncing in here asking about various "shacks" they find on SI south of Hylan Blvd that are "cheap" or whatever.
Again, these are old bungalow places that never were meant for year round use but somehow became so despite location. South of Hylan floods even from just a simple rain, where there is severe weather then watch out.
Area is wetlands and never should have been developed, but various developers and politicians had to get their tastes so things were built up; then came super storm Sandy and all heck broke lose. What people had been saying all along finally happened; Mother Nature sent water where she wanted it to go, and human misery followed.
House is in OP is "cheap" because it sits in a major flood zone (just a few blocks up from the water), and thus no bank will touch it for a mortgage. Homes on both sides and many on that block have all be raised, or older places torn down and new ones built higher to meet FEMA and other guidelines.
Mosquitoes must be horrible in the summer over there.
Moes are horrible in many areas of Staten Island period. When invited to a BBQ or some other outside event never forget to bring a can of "Off" or other Moe repellent.
As kids we constantly were getting eaten alive by moes when outside playing after dark.
Until people started installing air conditioners (window or whole house) you had to spray bedrooms before going to bed. No matter how many screens were up there were always moes in the house. Nothing is more irritating than trying to get to sleep with moes buzzing around your ears.
Staten Island has tons of wetland and other spaces with open water (ponds, brooks, streams, etc...) where moes breed.
BUT as others have noted the house is in an always flood-prone area, so it's relatively cheap for that reason.
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