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If you want NYC, you'll be disappointed with Staten Island. It's less connected to the city than a lot of NJ. If you're still willing to consider the Lexington job, Watertown would be a great place to live. It's diverse, walkable only about 20 min from Lexington AT RUSH HOUR, and super convenient to both Boston and Cambridge.
I would think North Shore Staten Island is NYC enough. It seems pretty urban as well as up and coming.
I would think North Shore Staten Island is NYC enough. It seems pretty urban as well as up and coming.
The job offer is on the north shore! We are having a tough time deciding between living close to everything NYC is despite the higher cost of living, in beautiful desert scenery in Phoenix with plenty of outdoor opportunities and Mexican food, or in Indianapolis with the lowest cost of living and access to multiple medium to large-sized cities for weekend trips.
No subway. That's the big one, and the ferry is a PITA.
Actually it isn't bad if you work downtown, if you work midtown you have to take a subway also and coming back you have to connect. Not wonderful but not the worst thing. On weekends you can drive in or drive over the bridge to Brooklyn and pick up the subway. The OP's job will be on Staten Island so they really won't have the commuting issue.
Interesting. I have not set foot on Staten Island sense, maybe 05. I would totally had no idea that they closed Fresh Kills and made it a park.
Yea when I lived there I was right behind the dump by the Mall in New Springville on the 4th floor of a condo the smell was horrific like rotten eggs your eyes would water. Worse, the Exxon plants in NJ would release gas at the same time the dump burned usually at night! This was in the late 80's I saw rats larger than dogs. They closed Fresh Kills in 2001 and forwarded the garbage to NJ and other states that would take it. More than you probably wanted to know!
Structurally speaking SI is by far the most suburban part of nyc, but socio-culturally it is a throwback. It's largely lower middle class whites, with a decent amount of racial diversity. It's what the vast majority of nyc was like 30-50 years ago, before the hipsterization, and wealth stratification that occured around the turn of the century. It reminds me of NE Philly complete with a heroin problem.
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