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This is rediculous. Mexican drug dealers? I have lived here for twenty years, raised 2 kids here, wife works in the schools. We have never heard of a "Mexican Drug Dealer" problem.
Furthermore, you complained about drug dealers. Who do you think they are dealing the drugs too???? The TEENS, who have the money to buy them.
First, telling me anecdotally that Northport kids call East Northport East Northpuerto Rico doesn't indicate the presence of Mexicans, where they are, or where they harass the kids.
Second, Puerto Rico isn't Mexico.
Third, I don't care about the presence of Mexicans, cutting my lawn, or living next door.
Fourth, I did complain about a drug dealer. He's white. And he deals primarily to white people in expensive cars.
The presumption that there is some bevy of Mexicans running around shoving drugs in teenagers' faces is bigoted. You've offered no evidence. The Census numbers show that this city is almost exclusively white - not that that makes it any better - but it disproves your assertion (94.73% white, to be precise).
This is rediculous. Mexican drug dealers? I have lived here for twenty years, raised 2 kids here, wife works in the schools. We have never heard of a "Mexican Drug Dealer" problem.
The drug problems in the area were definitely not the result of Mexicans or any other minority group; I'm not sure where such an accusation originated. Northport-East Northport had a drug problem long before there were Mexicans hanging out near the train station.
I also know for a fact that Northport kids do not commonly refer to East Northport in such a way as well. We have many, many close friends living in both towns and maintain very strong ties and while there is some friction between the kids it's the more typical "my neighborhood is better than yours" sort of rhetoric.
This reminds me of a funny exchange back in the mid-1990's when my wife and I first moved to the area. A close friend of my sisters who lives in Commack told my sister we were crazy for considering a house purchase in East Northport. "Everyone knows that it's becoming like little India". She claimed that Indian immigrants were slowly taking over the neighborhood and would one day make it seem like East Delhi instead of East Northport. After living there and in Northport for more than a dozen years we never had an Indian neighbor and my children never had Indian classmates and that covered both East Northport and Northport.
Mind you we wouldn't have had any issue with anyone living next to us or sending their children to the public school system; if you can afford to buy into the neighborhood than you're at least my economic equal and have earned the right. But even still, despite the panicked cries of "the Indians are coming" and the related frantic phone calls by my family begging us not to make "the biggest mistakes of our lives" it was a non-issue.
Tom nailed this one tap dead center. It's a non-issue.
There are actually a few different school disticts in ENPT. There is a section East of Larkfield between Burr and Claypitts you may want to check out. The zip is East northport but the kids go to Commack schools. It is a great area. Tons of kids, lots of trees and large properties. You can't go wrong there. I can't say enough about it. Its not cheap but you can get something nice for 600k in this market.
Getting back to the original topic of where clg23 would like to move, Since your range is in the $600K area, I'd aim for the best location in a real estate sense, and that would be the Northport Village area, and north of 25A if you can find something there you like. That's not to say East Northport isn't good, it's okay, but if you want water, charm, a Main Street to stroll, close to a couple of beaches (and if you make friends with someone who lives in a house on the water you've got another beach), a more aesthetically beautiful area, Northport Village north of 25A beats out East Northport hands down. The area is priced higher since there's more demand. You have to know it's all about location.
What you don't want to happen is to move to East Northport and then wish 6 months later that you had actually bought a house in the Northport village area. If you haven't been to Northport, get on a plane (try Southwest they fly into Islip/McArthur airport) and drive to both East Northport and Northport. Nothing like seeing it in person.
Look around the Nautilus Avenue area just off the top of Ocean Avenue. Lovely large neighborhood with all sizes of houses from small to pretty large. You're bound to find something that will do for yourself and your family in there. You'd be outside of the village by just a two-minute car ride, about 5 minutes from Eaton's Neck beach and Ashroken, etc. And the Northport schools are good. Very scenic pretty spot.
Not to mention the drugs passed along to the kids from the Mexican's. Sorry if I offended you because that was not my intention. I have my own opinions as a resident of this community. Are you aware that E. Npt is commonly known as E. Northpuerto rico by the children? Cause it is. Nuff said
I have never seen a Mexican drug dealer in Northport or anywhere else for that matter. Most of them are working too hard to be engaged in those activities. I have NEVER heard East Northport referred to as East NorthPuertoRico. If your own children are making such racist comments, you should be correcting them.
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I don't understand the attraction to Northport when you have those unsightly LIPA power plant smoke stacks obscuring the view of Long Island sound and at the same time spweing all sorts of carcinogenic waste in the air.
Funny thing about the stacks is that they become part of the landscape as if though nature put them there. We were back in town last week and went down to the soccer complex from which you can almost touch the stacks and my wife commented that she sort of misses them now that we live elsewhere.
As for the exhaust from the stacks that's more Kings Park problem.
This reminds me of a funny exchange back in the mid-1990's when my wife and I first moved to the area. A close friend of my sisters who lives in Commack told my sister we were crazy for considering a house purchase in East Northport. "Everyone knows that it's becoming like little India". She claimed that Indian immigrants were slowly taking over the neighborhood and would one day make it seem like East Delhi instead of East Northport. After living there and in Northport for more than a dozen years we never had an Indian neighbor and my children never had Indian classmates and that covered both East Northport and Northport.
That's because they were scared away by the Greekarican poodle slavers from the island nation of Greekerico, where according to Amnesty National the poodle slave trade is quite vigorous. The only problem bigger in East Northport than the poodle slave trade is some white drug dealer who deals primarily to white people in expensive cars, which we all know is bigoted against all those Yugo and Pinto drivers from the South Shore.
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What happened to the Mexicans?
