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It's not about being flashy, and a 4+ bedroom house with a big kitchen doesn't have to be a McMansion. I just don't prefer the older, smaller housing stock on most of Long Island. If you go outside Long Island you'll find many suburbs container newer housing stock consisting of modern colonials that are designed more spaciously. My cousin and his wife recently bought a 10 year old, 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom, large kitchen with an island house with a pool outside Tampa for less than $300K. If you can find that here it would be $700K+ depending what town you live in. It doesn't make sense. My friend has been house hunting in the suburbs of Denver and almost all the houses were built in the last 10-15 years with a decent size property. He found a nice house with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms for less than $350K. It's not about having a big house, Long Island houses need to be priced at what's appropriate compared to what you can get in other metro areas. I don't see why anyone would stay here when you can get a newer, bigger house somewhere else with lower property taxes and overall lower COL in general.
NY isnt the only expensive metro area (see san francisco, san diego, los angeles, seattle) and you will see housing costs just as if not more expensive in some cases. Yes Florida is dirt cheap, my sister just bought a 10 year old house down there for 175k. But you couldnt pay me to ever move back there. Having a nice big mcmansion isnt everything.
The home we are buying in Pittsburgh is not huge ; its about 2,000 sq ft, 4 beds, 2 1/2 baths on 1.2 acres for $245,000 and taxes are about $6000 with a finished basement.
Now anyone guess what that size house, land would cost here in a great school district??
That's funny apparently indeed.com says that the average teacher salary on LI is $48,000. Unless this is skewed by including private school teacher salaries as well.
I just don't get it. If people are soooo miserable with LI taxes, why don't they move? Is LI Teabagger going to complain for the next 50 years? OR is he going to pack his bags, sell the home, and MOVE? It's common sense to me. Less than $200k and you could easily be living large in NC or FL....Why be miserable and stay in NY and pay these absurd taxes?
AND YET, he's not going anywhere. I've heard Nassau residents complaining about the taxes since I was a kid in the 70s. Wah - wah - wah!!!!! It's sooooo annoying.
I just don't get it. If people are soooo miserable with LI taxes, why don't they move? Is LI Teabagger going to complain for the next 50 years? OR is he going to pack his bags, sell the home, and MOVE? It's common sense to me. Less than $200k and you could easily be living large in NC or FL....Why be miserable and stay in NY and pay these absurd taxes?
AND YET, he's not going anywhere. I've heard Nassau residents complaining about the taxes since I was a kid in the 70s. Wah - wah - wah!!!!! It's sooooo annoying.
I agree I think all the people on these boards are just too poor to afford to Long Island or like to complain. If you don't want to struggle with money and paying high taxes then go into a profession that pays well like a doctor, pharmacist, research scientist, or CPA. I'm tired of these under-compensated private sector workers complaining about taxes.
I just don't get it. If people are soooo miserable with LI taxes, why don't they move? Is LI Teabagger going to complain for the next 50 years? OR is he going to pack his bags, sell the home, and MOVE? It's common sense to me. Less than $200k and you could easily be living large in NC or FL....Why be miserable and stay in NY and pay these absurd taxes?
AND YET, he's not going anywhere. I've heard Nassau residents complaining about the taxes since I was a kid in the 70s. Wah - wah - wah!!!!! It's sooooo annoying.
Lol! Great post!
JCNNY you need to add police and teacher to the doctor, lawyer etc list.
JCNNY you need to add police and teacher to the doctor, lawyer etc list.
The average cop and teacher salary on LI is no where near as much as what a doctor, pharmacist, research scientist, dentist, or CPA working for a reputable accounting firm makes. A lot of lawyers don't make as much as you think and now it's harder to come across good law jobs these days because there are too many lawyers in the Northeast and not enough jobs.
It's funny because I don't hear people complain that doctors, pharmacists, research scientists salaries are too high because their health insurance costs too much. But I guess people rather pay six figure higher salaries to doctors than teachers. I'm a junior research scientist and I think anyone who works in service (e.g. cops, teachers) should get paid a high salary because it's a helping profession.
The average cop and teacher salary on LI is no where near as much as what a doctor, pharmacist, research scientist, dentist, or CPA working for a reputable accounting firm makes. A lot of lawyers don't make as much as you think and now it's harder to come across good law jobs these days because there are too many lawyers in the Northeast and not enough jobs.
It's funny because I don't hear people complain that doctors, pharmacists, research scientists salaries are too high because their health insurance costs too much. But I guess people rather pay six figure higher salaries to doctors than teachers. I'm a junior research scientist and I think anyone who works in service (e.g. cops, teachers) should get paid a high salary because it's a helping profession.
JCNNY I actually agree 100%, was actually being sarcastic in the face of the constant police/teacher bashing on this forum.
JCNNY I actually agree 100%, was actually being sarcastic in the face of the constant police/teacher bashing on this forum.
I don't always pick up sarcasm right away sometimes so I apologize.
But yes I am tired of these poor, under-compensated, private sector workers complaining how property taxes are too high. What is next? Saying doctor/pharmacist/research scientist salaries should be cut because their health insurance costs too much?
Cops, teachers, firefighters, doctors, pharmacists, researchers, are all helping professions and IMO deserve their high salaries. No way should some video game marketer or manager of a fast food joint should ever make as much money as helping profession.
I don't always pick up sarcasm right away sometimes so I apologize.
But yes I am tired of these poor, under-compensated, private sector workers complaining how property taxes are too high. What is next? Saying doctor/pharmacist/research scientist salaries should be cut because their health insurance costs too much?
Cops, teachers, firefighters, doctors, pharmacists, researchers, are all helping professions and IMO deserve their high salaries. No way should some video game marketer or manager of a fast food joint should ever make as much money as helping profession.
And yet Long Island seems to be the exception seeing how most places in the country seem to have those same professionals working for costs more relative to median incomes of the area. Only on LI do you see teachers and police running around with near or exceeding entire household incomes.
Further, your analysis is completely ignorant of the facts. Doctors and other medical professionals have been sitting somewhere around or under inflationary costs since the 80's, not so with our vaunted public-sector golden cows.
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