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My husband and I recently looked at a home for sale on Woodchuck Lane in what is known as the Critter Section in East Setauket. This section has some very strange looking hi-ranches and "mushroom houses". We have a plan if we were to buy this particular hi-ranch to completely re-do it from top to bottom, inside and out, adding a porch, etc and making it our dream home. This house is so ugly now, but we have an amazing builder who can make it gorgeous, so I am not worried about the house we will be getting, but more so the neighborhood and the reputation. The neighborhood, although the homes are either really flat rectangular hi-ranches or those even stranger looking mushroom houses with huge roofs, is a well kept area. It seems that everyone keeps their yards really nice and a lot of people have updated their homes to make them look so much nicer. I saw old forums on here calling it the ghetto of East Setauket. LOL! I never knew that any area in Three Village could be considered the ghetto, but if any area was I would think it would be more apt to be South Setauket, aka Centereach, not the Critter Section!
The reason we want to buy here is for the schools, my kids will be starting K in 2015.
I want a neighborhood with lots of kids and I know that there are many areas of Setauket that are wealthy, I do not want my kids to feel like they live in the ghetto as they get older! I also want to instill in them that it doesn't matter if they are RICH as long as they are happy, but I worry too about them getting made fun of or something if they live in the Critter Section.
Can someone please provide some insight? Am I worrying too much or is this not so nice of an area?? Help!
It is called the critter section because of the street names....but other than the old posts I have read calling it the ghetto of East Setauket....anyone else have more insight? Are there lots of families? What types of people living there, it had tons of foreclosures a few years ago but I drove all over and seems everyone is making the homes very nice??
It's far from being a ghetto - just not one of the ritzier section of the 3V area. But if you have little kids, it's probably a great spot for them. And yes, the houses were built pretty cheaply, but if you and your neighbors are renovating them, that's not an issue
My only concern would be with the toxic plume from Lawrence Aviation, the property abuts Woodchuck and Dorothy. The plume supposedly spread north. Your call.
There's a "sexually violent" (State's definition) Level 2 sex offender living a couple of blocks away on Partridge. He did 20 years in N. Carolina, and recently moved to the area.
As far as overhauling the entire house and adding a porch -- check the zoning. You're probably going to need a variance as you won't have adequate setback.
Your child will meet friends in elementary school whose families are 'haves' -- been there, done that -- no escaping it.
OH NO!! I had no idea about a toxic plume!! WHATTTT!??? And I had no idea there was a sex offender in the area. I live in Coram now and if you check Coram there are so many sex offenders it is insane! And they all live by Longwood Library and hang out there! I have seen them there before! It is the NUMBER ONE reason along with the HORRIBLE Longwood School District that we have sold and are getting out of Coram. Thank you for this info I am going to have to look into this further! No way am I buying toxic anything!
Woodchuck is south of the plume, it allegedly moved with the groundwater north into Port Jeff Village. With respect to sex offenders, there are very few registered ones in the 3V area. Check the PFML website.
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