White flight in riviera towns (merrick-bellmore-wantagh-seaford)? (Freeport, Valley Stream: home, neighborhood, school rankings)
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I know this is a sensitive topic but I've heard people say the neighborhood, especially merrick and Bellmore closer to sunrise is changing and a lot of white folks are leaving. What has been your observations? Any residents care to comment?
Guess you guys will have to flee back west to Baldwin, Freeport and Valley Stream, or dredge some land out east of Montauk. Or, Merrick could build a wall and have Freeport pay for it!
I know this is a sensitive topic but I've heard people say the neighborhood, especially merrick and Bellmore closer to sunrise is changing and a lot of white folks are leaving. What has been your observations? Any residents care to comment?
Not this again. White flight? Not even close. This isn't 1965.
Yes, white flight. Retirees. Can't afford to live here on a fixed income and can't pass up the option of selling and downsizing. The difference is the "white flighters" coming out of NYC now are more brown and yellow than white (I say that tongue in cheek facetiously, not to be racist). Fact is, where the Asian and Indians (and some Slavic) families are moving, home prices and school rankings are Up and climbing. They have the classic LI family values.
LI is built on NYC "flight." White flight off the Island is bunk. Flight off the island is economic, not demographic. Yet.
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