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Hello Everyone, recently my partner has landed a job in NYC and it looks like we are relocating back to NY. It is now time for us to look for a house as we have outgrown our Miami Beach apartment as it is. It looks like we can get the most bang for our buck in either Dix Hills or Babylon Village. Currently we have no set budget (1Mil+) and my partner will be working in the city and I will be working remotely from home until our twins are school age. We are an interracial same sex couple looking for a nice place to raise our interracial children. We both like the set up of Dix Hills and Babylon Village. He prefers the north shore feel of Dix Hills and I love being near the water, but we are flexible with both towns. How are these two communities? Will we be around other white collar professionals? Which School's perform better? Where will our children be accepted better? We understand same-sex couples aren't the most popular on LI but we feel these two communities would be "tolerant" of us. Could someone please give us some insight.
For the most part Long Islanders don't care who live next to them as long as they're quiet, don't have yapping mutts and keep the yard nice. My personal choice would be Village of Babylon area because there are some beautiful old homes. Dix Hills is nice but there's much more traffic and train station is not exactly that close. Both HHH and Babylon are decent to very good school districts.
Hello Everyone, recently my partner has landed a job in NYC and it looks like we are relocating back to NY. It is now time for us to look for a house as we have outgrown our Miami Beach apartment as it is. It looks like we can get the most bang for our buck in either Dix Hills or Babylon Village. Currently we have no set budget (1Mil+) and my partner will be working in the city and I will be working remotely from home until our twins are school age. We are an interracial same sex couple looking for a nice place to raise our interracial children. We both like the set up of Dix Hills and Babylon Village. He prefers the north shore feel of Dix Hills and I love being near the water, but we are flexible with both towns. How are these two communities? Will we be around other white collar professionals? Which School's perform better? Where will our children be accepted better? We understand same-sex couples aren't the most popular on LI but we feel these two communities would be "tolerant" of us. Could someone please give us some insight.
Dix Hills and Babylon Village are both great places but they are completely different areas that offer different things.
Most of Dix Hills is a wealthy area with large homes on huge plots. It's served by the Half Hollow Hills school district, which is one of Long Island's TOP school systems. HHH performs better than Babylon and is much more racially diverse than Babylon. There is no LIRR stop, you would have to drive to either the Wyandanch, Huntington Station or Farmingdale train stop and pay to park. There is also not much shopping, restaurants or local conveniences in Dix Hills (unless your close to Commack Rd).
Babylon Village offers walkability, an LIRR stop, parks and lots of restaurants. Babylon Schools are great but not comparable to HHH. Babylon is also a much smaller school system than HHH; which gives it a more close kit and small town feel. Babylon near the water has homes in your price range but you will need flood insurance but this may not matter much to you since you're at a higher price point. Babylon is definitely much better for commuters since the Babylon LIRR branch is considered more reliable than the branches that serve the Dix Hills area.
From both stops, it takes a little over an hour to get to the city.
I don't think anybody would bother you in either area. I think you would feel a bit more at home in Dix Hills since it is more diverse than Babylon and your kids would be around kids of many different backgrounds. You guys seem pretty wealthy and Dix Hills is mostly made up of affluent people. Babylon has a lot of affluent people too but most people there are your average middle class.
If your heart is truly set on Western Suffolk then I would highly recommend Huntington Village. I feel like it combines the best elements of Dix Hills and Babylon Village. However, the schools are not quite considered as good as HHH or Babylon SD (unless you're in the Cold Spring Harbor school system).
Last edited by MemoryMaker; 05-12-2017 at 11:08 AM..
Dix Hills and Babylon Village are both great places but they are completely different areas that offer different things.
Most of Dix Hills is a wealthy area with large homes on huge plots. It's served by the Half Hollow Hills school district, which is one of Long Island's TOP school systems. HHH performs better than Babylon and is much more racially diverse than Babylon. There is no LIRR stop, you would have to drive to either the Wyandanch, Huntington Station or Farmingdale train stop and pay to park. There is also not much shopping, restaurants or local conveniences in Dix Hills (unless your close to Commack Rd).
Babylon Village offers walkability, an LIRR stop, parks and lots of restaurants. Babylon Schools are great but not comparable to HHH. Babylon is also a much smaller school system than HHH; which gives it a more close kit and small town feel. Babylon near the water has homes in your price range but you will need flood insurance but this may not matter much to you since you're at a higher price point. Babylon is definitely much better for commuters since the Babylon LIRR branch is considered more reliable than the branches that serve the Dix Hills area.
From both stops, it takes a little over an hour to get to the city.
I don't think anybody would bother you in either area. I think you would feel a bit more at home in Dix Hills since it is more diverse than Babylon and your kids would be around kids of many different backgrounds. You guys seem pretty wealthy and Dix Hills is mostly made up of affluent people. Babylon has a lot of affluent people too but most people there are your average middle class.
If your heart is truly set on Western Suffolk then I would highly recommend Huntington Village. I feel like it combines the best elements of Dix Hills and Babylon Village. However, the schools are not quite considered as good as HHH or Babylon SD (unless you're in the Cold Spring Harbor school system).
Pertaining to the comment " Babylon has a lot of affluent people too but most people there are your average middle class". Is this middle class in Babylon more of the "Educated" type or more of the "working class"?
Pertaining to the comment " Babylon has a lot of affluent people too but most people there are your average middle class". Is this middle class in Babylon more of the "Educated" type or more of the "working class"?
Probably an even combination of white-collar middle class (aka 'educated types') and blue-collar middle class (sometimes called "working class")... as a rough guestimate.
When I think of "working class", I think of people who fall between middle class and poor (regardless of if they're white or blue collar). Are you using the same definition? If so then both types can be found in Babylon. And some blue collar workers make great money that could place them comfortably into the middle class; especially Union jobs.
(I grew up in Babylon.)
Last edited by MemoryMaker; 05-12-2017 at 12:57 PM..
Pertaining to the comment " Babylon has a lot of affluent people too but most people there are your average middle class". Is this middle class in Babylon more of the "Educated" type or more of the "working class"?
it's a mix. Lots of folks who commute via LIRR to Manhattan every day and a decent amount of professionals (attorneys, doctors), teachers, tradesmen, FDNY, NYPD, etc.
As for the particulars relating to your family, by and large you will find most areas to be inclusive of all family types. However, it's not impossible that your next door neighbor might be a bigot. But that would be the case anywhere. Its' really luck of the draw.
Given the realities of commuting to NYC via LIRR from Suffolk County (it's no picnic), is there a reason you're not looking in Nassau County?
Babylon has a better commute, but Dix Hills is IMO superior.
All that said, with your budget and commute to NYC, why either of those areas? I'd look a little closer to NYC. You'll get less bang for your buck, but you'll still get plenty.
I think they are both fine. It's a pretty long commute from there though
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