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Watch the video.
I'm kidding with the Asian thing...sort of.
Consider my earlier point on SD taxes.
All I'm saying is if you don't like College kids don't move to a College town.
Wouldnt the "Character of the community" be a College town or am I missing something?
Crooks
Agree about the taxes...BUT, what town doesn't have this issue? And its NOT about it being a college town....its about illegal rentals. My neighbors have 2nice college kids that rent an apartment. Nice kids, nice landlord who cares. NO PROBLEMS. Thats all im trying to say.
Watch the video.
I'm kidding with the Asian thing...sort of.
Consider my earlier point on SD taxes.
All I'm saying is if you don't like College kids don't move to a College town.
Wouldnt the "Character of the community" be a College town or am I missing something?
Crooks
You can have a college town without single family homes being made into flophouses. Students can live in dorms, apartments, or rent a room from a family.
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But the bigger problem, according to Brookhaven town officials, is that most of the boarding houses don't conform to town codes and are illegal. No home is allowed to have more than four unrelated people living there.
This is the law. The landlords must obey it. If they want to rent to students, then rent 1 or 2 rooms in your own house and let the students live with you. It is not meant to be big business, and when people who are absentee landlords turn it into big business, the community suffers. REGARDLESS of whether the students are white or asian or whatever. Are the people in that area THAT prejudiced? Really? I thought Asians were the "good" minorities according to LI'ers ...
Talk about sleight of hand, they were able to sneak in a University and a Medical Center with tons of high paying jobs while no one was looking.
Oh the horrror.
Crooks
"High Paying Jobs"... LOL. Ever see the pay scales and compare them to other hospitals?
They are "good" jobs in that they are fairly stable and they come with good benefits, but most Nurses, Therapists, and allied health professionals are not affording Stony Brook.
Also, SB is NOT a college town. Take it from someone who went there. It is Stony Books, The Bench, and Bunkin Donuts along with a rail station. Students leave for their homes in the city Friday Night and come back Sunday evening.
As a former Stony Brook alum, do you know how long this has been going on for? 20 year atleast! lol .....I went to some very crazy parties at the very houses around the campus you are talking about! Good times haha.....
A lot of the times it is much cheaper for 4-5 friends or students to rent out a house around the campus than it is to pay the exhorbitant room and board fees of the University.
People are complaining about college students renting out a private residence to live in while they attend university? Oh the horror!
If you're going to complain about illegal housing, I would think the first priority would be to go after the houses cut up into egg cartons inside, housing dozens of illegal aliens.
Agree about the taxes...BUT, what town doesn't have this issue? And its NOT about it being a college town....its about illegal rentals. My neighbors have 2nice college kids that rent an apartment. Nice kids, nice landlord who cares. NO PROBLEMS. Thats all im trying to say.
I don't know. It comes with the territory.
We always had college rentals there with very few problems as a kid.
"High Paying Jobs"... LOL. Ever see the pay scales and compare them to other hospitals?
They are "good" jobs in that they are fairly stable and they come with good benefits, but most Nurses, Therapists, and allied health professionals are not affording Stony Brook.
Also, SB is NOT a college town. Take it from someone who went there. It is Stony Books, The Bench, and Bunkin Donuts along with a rail station. Students leave for their homes in the city Friday Night and come back Sunday evening.
it's a college town. Take it from a townie.
You know how you can tell? The locals are complaining.
Crooks
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