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Well when I lived in Malverne people would ask where I was from and I would tell them and then they'd say "oh so you live in queens." No, I live in Nassau county duh! Now I live in Islip and if I go out of state people ask where I am from (my Lawn guyland accent is so obvious) I tell them and their response is "so you live by the Hamptons?" I tell them no but that it isn't very far. Why is it when you tell people you are from LI NY they have no clue but if you say you are like 1 hour from Manhattan then they seem to understand.
When you are stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Cross Bronx Expressway en route to meeting some friends on the Upper West Side for a lovely afternoon stroll around Central Park, Long Island does indeed seem a million miles away from the city.
Likewise, a commute of nearly 2 hours in each direction will make you aware of the distance.
And finally, Long Island is suburban to its core. There is more to distance than miles. It's dang near another planet out here.
I don't even mention "New York", I just say that I am from Long Island. I see myself an American first, a Long Islander second, and a New Yorker third.
Theres seems to be some kind of mass delusion in Queens East. The truth of the matter is that the internets changes everything.Telecommuting has eliminated time and space for many and the magnet of NYC is not what it was for our parents.
Has it really? How many people are actually "telecommuting" full-time? Maybe 1% of the American workforce, if even that?
When you are stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Cross Bronx Expressway en route to meeting some friends on the Upper West Side for a lovely afternoon stroll around Central Park, Long Island does indeed seem a million miles away from the city.
Likewise, a commute of nearly 2 hours in each direction will make you aware of the distance.
And finally, Long Island is suburban to its core. There is more to distance than miles. It's dang near another planet out here.
That about sums it up.
When I was a kid my relatives would "go to the country" to visit us in the pastoral lands of Clark Street.
Long Island developed differently, people came out to Long Island to get away from "the city" and that mentality has persisted. In many ways that is a good thing; Long Island is culturally, politically, and economically independent of New York City.
New York City is the symbol of all that is wrong with the United States today: too much immigration and not enough assimilation, too much diversity, too much government regulation, stupid politicians like Bloomberg, etc. I don't blame my fellow LIers for not wanting to be associated with that mess. The sooner the Five Boroughs floats off into the Atlantic the better.
But the commute time isn't the ACTUAL distance. I can drive like 125 miles in 2 hours...I live 50 miles from Manhattan and 40 from the city border. The commute might feel like 125 miles one way, when in reality it's really only 50 for Manhattan and 40 for Queens. If I can drive 20 minutes to the Robert Moses Bridge and see the NYC skyline on some days, I'm sorry but that can't be considered far. My friend in Melville which is about 25-28 minutes from me told me he was working in an office building in Melville and from the 5th floor could see the Manhattan skyline clearly. It's really our transportation system that sucks and makes it seem so far away (Manhattan not Queens). People seem shocked when I tell them I can make it to the Queens border on an off peak hour in 45 minutes easily...I have even made it in barely 40 some days. They tell me I must be wrong it must take at least an hour, but it's just not true if you drive there on off hours. My record is actually 38 minutes from Queens border to parking at my house but that's crazy and not typical I'll admit . 45 minutes however is the norm for me so I don't feel disconnected from NYC. I understand when people say THE CITY they mean Manhattan, but it throws people off. When explaining to a girl from California that I live about 45 minutes from NYC my friend from Staten Island butted in and said "Are you kidding? You are like an hour and 20 minutes away!" which pissed me off because obviously the START of NYC is Queens. I judge things by borders, not where the biggest buildings are. It's like only considering Riverhead to be Long Island. But technically LI starts at like New Hyde Park. It's so stupid. NYC is NYC. When I cross that border, I am in NYC. It just makes me so mad because 20 miles get lumped on to how far away I live from NYC when it's really BARELY 40 miles...I pass signs by my house everyday that says "NEW YORK 37" referring to miles. I refuse to call myself a country bumpkin when I can drive to NYC in less than an hour easily as long as I plan it at the right time. People in Suffolk will brag about how close they are to the Hamptons when in reality some parts of the Hamptons are just as far as Queens for us. Hell, Queens is closer to Central Suffolk than "out east" by like 10 miles. I just don't get it...be proud to live so close to the greatest city in the world, why deny it? The country is Wyoming, not Long Island. LI is the suburbs of NYC.
Has it really? How many people are actually "telecommuting" full-time? Maybe 1% of the American workforce, if even that?
I'm sorry you push a broom.
; )
All ballbreaking aside most of the Fortune 500 encourage virtual workspace.
I will say that what's true for Nassau is true for WSuffolk too.Other than Gold Coast, not worth the premium it once commanded.
Crooks.
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