Moving to Poughkeepsie Area - Need Advice

[piperspal]

I just repped ya, Whitewolf508! I have missed living in your area for over 20 years now. I visit frequently & always wish I could move back. Your post has REALLY made me homesick for my "second" home. Thx!!

[pjohncabri]

If you are looking for rural with good schools, you might try Millbrook (Washington) or Pawling. The towns on the eastern edge are poor and really cannot afford good school systems. However, the housing is less expensive. Avoid the City of Poughkeepsie.

[CampingMom]

If your looking at good schools, I'd suggest that you look into the Arlington District-Lagrange/Pleasant Valley areas. For one that has an IB program at it's high school-Red Hook is the way to go. Excellent program they have there-we were looking into it at one point. Wappingers is OK-I can say that since I went there and my kids have too. Fishkill Plains side of town would be a good area to be in. There's rentals in any area-you just have to look or have some one look for you. I've lived here my whole life and it's greatly changed from a rural community to an urban. The Eastern part of the county is pretty much how it was almost all over when I grew up here-we had over 500 farms back then-we are down to I think 35. Some areas have higher congestion-Southern Dutchess by Fishkill I hear a lot of people comparing it to Central Ave in Yonkers on how high the traffic is. The City of Poughkeepsie is the only blight the county has right now-yes it has some nice areas-but some even during the day you don't want to be in.

[HomerBrink]

What about the southern part of the city of Poughkeepsie - south of Hooker Avenue? There seems to be a lot of nice houses there.

[CampingMom]

There are nice houses there-but the riff raff likes to go through the neighborhoods there. I'd stay away from anywhere in the City of Poughkeepsie. I've lived here my whole life and I'd never walk down that area now alone. It's a shame too but the blight that lives in the City are spreading out toward those areas. I was down near there the other day taking my child to an appointment with a cardiologist and got verbally abused by a low life coming out of the Dr's-he was cursing up a blue streak in a children's Dr's office-I said "SHHH" and he went NUTS! I don't do any business if I can avoid it in any part of the City. The county's most notorious serial killer lived just a few blocks from Hooker.