NY Times describes Long Island as an area in rapid decline! (New York: tax lien, 2014)
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That can go both ways. Native New Yorkers don't like hipsters coming here to "live the dream" of the big city, thereby driving up housing prices and taking away jobs from locals. It doesn't take 3 months by covered wagon crossing the frozen Mississppi to find a new homestead any more. We are a more mobile society now, good and bad, and the result is that many regional styles and ways of life are becoming homgenized. There is no going back.
Long Island needs to pick it up, if the Politicians would lower taxes and allow for jobs to come that would help Long Island but unfortunately that's not going to happen anytime soon
well the Islanders just left., taxes keep going up, people keep getting ruder and more obnoxious, wages going down & jobs getting lost. Nassau county is going to turn into the white Detroit
Long Island's high cost of living can't go on http://www.newsday.com/opinion/edito...-on-1.10328771
"the average weekly wage during the third quarter of 2014 was $1,022 in Nassau County and $1,031 in Suffolk County. The national average was barely less, $949."
"the average U.S. home sold for $212,000. But on Long Island, homes sold in the first quarter of 2015 went for an average of $360,000."
"the median property tax bill in Nassau County in 2010 was $9,289. In Suffolk County it was $7,768. Nationally, it was $2,043. So in round terms, property taxes on Long Island are quadruple the national median."
"Long Islanders at almost every income level have practically nothing left for savings, college or retirement funds after paying housing and living expenses that were the norm in their income brackets"
Long Island wages have been lagging for a long time, that's why many include NYC wages. The average weekly wage in my little podunk, Piggly Wiggly shopping, cousin marrying, backwater county of Henrico is $1,110. The lowly pimple on the ass of VA (Goochland**) is $1,902. The den of inequity to my east, Sodom on the James (aka Richmond) is $1,147.
Meanwhile the Nirvana of sophistication (Nassau) is $1,158 and Paradise (Suffolk) is $1,125. All numbers BLS.
The point being, Long Islanders have to kick some political ass and get some more high paying jobs into the area. It can't get by, by just getting by.
**OK, Goochland is a ringer in that it's all farms and millionaires.
PS Yes I know this may come across as an ex-pat bashing the Island, but the op-ed does bring up some good points. Now if they'd come up with some actual solutions to those problems. Calling ILLI_B!
Now if they'd come up with some actual solutions to those problems. Calling ILLI_B!
The only solution takes testicles to accomplish (which nobody there has), and is basically to layoff a quarter of the police force and cut their salaries & benefits by 50%. It's counterintuitive but that will slash property taxes which will increase disposable income and grow the economy to increase jobs and wages.
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