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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!!
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.
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.
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.
I have been looking to rent in the town of poughkeepsie and almost found a single family house to rent with my section 8 voucher but the owner didnt feel comfortable in which i understand, one bad apple does spoil the whole bunch . I will have a job when I get up to poughkeepsie I dont live off of the government except for the section 8 voucher. One thing I do not want to do is live in a house with 5 other tenants ... right now I live in the riverdale section of the bronx so I really have no complaints, I just need a job and they are offering me one but the drive from the bronx to poughkeepsie will be way to much for me and I have 2 little ones here in the bronx that go to school and i do not want to be so far away from. If all else fails I guess I will stay in the bronx but I would prefer to be in poughkeepsie and I will not move to poughkeepsie city that would be a no no for me. its frustrating because I have the "section 8" taboo behind me, but I wont give it up especially not at this time when the economy is at its worse. Good luck to all who are purchasing homes and can rent without the taboo ...
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Unfortunately we see more and more of this behavior moving up to this area. Not everyone from the lower counties acts like this-but it stereotypes eveyone when certain ones come in here with big attitudes and mouths to boot. My Hubby was in Shoprite the other day. Two women with the definite NYC accent were standing in line and he said they could be heard across the store-discussing batteries. Why the need to be the center of attention or the loudest you can be. It's like when I drive a school bus and tell the kids to use their indoor voices. You don't have to talk so loud they can hear you on the next block.
If I hear one more person who moves up here ask me why on would I chose to live my whole life just here-I'll scream. I am ready to run for the hills and move to farmland just to get away from some of what's moved in here. Like I said-it's not all that have-it's the few that make me twitch.
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I am ready to run for the hills and move to farmland just to get away from some of what's moved in here. Like I said-it's not all that have-it's the few that make me twitch.
