Cities/areas where you get the "best bang for your buck" (New York: to live, slum)
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Aren't those questions you should have the guts to ask your spouse?
Just tell your spouse all these points and insist it is time to "shuffle off to Buffalo" stat ... pronto ... ASAP ... and stop wasting time on miserable Long Island!
Why do you think that because YOU PERSONALLY find absolutely no joy in living here that EVERYONE ELSE should not either and that EVERYONE ELSE on LI is living their lives "wrong" if they don't agree with you?
Frankly, it seems like YOU are the one who is living their life wrong and full of regret. I feel sorry for you.
No I don't think that everyone on LI lives their lives wrong. For many people it makes perfect sense to live on Long Island. I have a cousin who lives in one of those upscale areas of Buffalo that I think would love living in Long Island because of her love for fine luxury goods and her looking down her nose at everyone. Instead of living in her isolated upscale Buffalo suburb surrounded by more mortals, she should move to where the "beautiful people" are everywhere!
What I don't like is the attitude in Long Island that no where else in the country has any value and is inferior to Long Island in every aspect. That I find just ignorant and a little sad.
What I don't like is the attitude in Long Island that no where else in the country has any value and is inferior to Long Island in every aspect. That I find just ignorant and a little sad.
You know when people say an area has lots of this and that, it's not even the majority. Why do you speak like this is the majority of LI attitudes? Is it really?
This whole "friendlier people" thing is a load of crud. I lived there for 4.5 years. It's not like down south where everyone waves to each other. And it's not like people were smiling at each other when they're driving or walking by. Not even in Amherst. I think you're grasping at straws.
It's amazing to me that in such a thread, Buffalo / WNY (of which people in the Buffalo thread even claim as an armpit) has been our biggest focus. Even you identified some serious cons about living there. What does that tell us about the rest of the country compared to where we are? Serious question.
You know when people say an area has lots of this and that, it's not even the majority. Why do you speak like this is the majority of LI attitudes? Is it really?
to a narrow minded person with limited perspective and even less self awareness, it probably does seem that way!
You know when people say an area has lots of this and that, it's not even the majority. Why do you speak like this is the majority of LI attitudes? Is it really?
This whole "friendlier people" thing is a load of crud. I lived there for 4.5 years. It's not like down south where everyone waves to each other. And it's not like people were smiling at each other when they're driving or walking by. Not even in Amherst. I think you're grasping at straws.
It's amazing to me that in such a thread, Buffalo / WNY (of which people in the Buffalo thread even claim as an armpit) has been our biggest focus. Even you identified some serious cons about living there. What does that tell us about the rest of the country compared to where we are?
No, it's not like the South and that is a good thing because in the south that kind of friendliness is very surface.
Living at the dorms at UB for 4 1/2 years doesn't give you a feel for what it is like to live there in a neighborhood setting.
I live on the North Shore of Long Island, and take it from me, the Long Island attitude is widespread whether intended or not. My immediate neighbors are ok though. My immediate neighbors though all have one thing in common, they have lived other places other than Long Island sometime in their lives. One even spent their honeymoon in Buffalo, I kid you not!! I couldn't ask for a better neighbor, he even cuts his lawn with his Anchor Bar shirt on
Last edited by Port North; 05-22-2013 at 09:44 AM..
No this is funny! In the post right above you're blasting him for the "extreme materialism and narrow mindedness of LI" and in this one you're looking down your nose upon the "lower class" cultural amenities of Hempstead!
Those savages on long island don't even have Wegmans. Now that is uncultured.
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