Overpriced LI (Islip, Babylon, Huntington: house, school district, vs.)

[jsb19]

An observation - I recently moved to Dix Hills. Friend of mine is considering doing the same. Asked me to go house hunting with him this weekend - and also wanted to check out Cold Spring Harbor to compare. I couldn't believe what I was seeing in terms of price vs. what you get for your money. We looked at a house that was priced over $3 million and aside from a big piece of land and a good school district, I don't know what you would be paying for. Plus it was a 25 minute drive from the expressway. Same house in Dix Hills would be half the money, which is still very expensive but more justifiable. I guess you pay a huge premium for being way up North.

[Walter Greenspan]

For those who may not be familiar with Dix Hills:

Named for Richard, or Dick, Pechagan, a Secatogue Indian who controlled the hilly area in colonial times, and over the years, the spelling was changed from Dick's Hills to Dix Hills, Dix Hills is a hamlet (unincorporated area) in the southeast part of the Town of Huntington, in the west part of Suffolk County, along the Huntington/Smithtown, Huntington/Islip and Huntington/Babylon town lines.

Beginning on the north and moving in a clockwise direction, the Hamlet of Dix Hills in the Town of Huntington is bordered on the north by the Hamlet of Elwood and the Hamlet of Commack in the Town of Huntington; on the east by the Hamlet of Commack in the Town of Smithtown (the Huntington/Smithtown town line) and the Hamlet of Brentwood in the Town of Islip (the Huntington/Islip town line); on the south by the Hamlet of Deer Park and the Hamlet of Wheatley Heights in the Town of Babylon (the Huntington/Babylon town line); and, on the west by the Hamlet of Melville and the Hamlet of South Huntington in the Town of Huntington.

The Hamlet of Dix Hills has a different border than does the "Dix Hills, NY 11746" postal zone (i.e., a place can have a "Dix Hills, NY 11746" mailing address and not be in the Hamlet of Dix Hills and a place can have other than a "Dix Hills, NY 11746" mailing address and be in the Hamlet of Dix Hills): places that have a "Dix Hills, NY 11746" mailing address that are not in the Hamlet of Dix Hills are in the Hamlet of Huntington Station, the Hamlet of Elwood, the Hamlet of Commack, the Hamlet of Deer Park and the Hamlet of Melville; and, at the same time, there are places in the Hamlet of Dix Hills with a "Brentwood, NY 11717" mailing address.





For a good set of town-by-town maps showing all the villages and hamlets in each of LI's 13 towns (3 in Nassau County and 10 in Suffolk County):

//www.city-data.com/forum/long-...-resource.html

[GCGuy]

Originally Posted by jsb19

An observation - I recently moved to Dix Hills. Friend of mine is considering doing the same. Asked me to go house hunting with him this weekend - and also wanted to check out Cold Spring Harbor to compare. I couldn't believe what I was seeing in terms of price vs. what you get for your money. We looked at a house that was priced over $3 million and aside from a big piece of land and a good school district, I don't know what you would be paying for. Plus it was a 25 minute drive from the expressway. Same house in Dix Hills would be half the money, which is still very expensive but more justifiable. I guess you pay a huge premium for being way up North.

It's not overpriced if people are paying for it. That can be said about most areas, and oftern times for Nassau vs. Suffolk in general (I know, CSH is in Suffolk). There are a number of factors that make a place expensive and not. It all depends on what you're looking for.