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I feel bad for the people in Albany.
No beaches. Must be a terrible and lifeless existence. No culture, no fun. Wonder how the pizza and bagels are? Must be good because it's still NY and NY water.
Try to keep up. They are moving here because Queens and Brooklyn are twice as expensive. What don’t you understand? Beaches are awesome. AWESOME. Maybe you’re more of a pool guy.
Keep up ? Me ? I said the exact thing you said here about 3 pages before you did. I just went one step further and said that they would have moved without the awesome beaches being there. You seem to have extensive knowledge about Lake Lanier and the surrounding area - so this concept of moving to a cheaper place without beaches should not be foreign to you.
In general beaches are awesome and I used to love my friends pool too !! Gotta make the most of the 6-7 months of summer beach weather... right ?
Keep up ? Me ? I said the exact thing you said here about 3 pages before you did. I just went one step further and said that they would have moved without the awesome beaches being there. You seem to have extensive knowledge about Lake Lanier and the surrounding area - so this concept of moving to a cheaper place without beaches should not be foreign to you.
In general beaches are awesome and I used to love my friends pool too !! Gotta make the most of the 6-7 months of summer beach weather... right ?
So *why* would I want to live on Long Island, when NJ & CT is, at the very worst, a lateral move?
At the local level, NJ is run better than her peers on Long Island, and the cost for services is lower. Jersey schools are equal to her LI counterparts, so why should I live on Long Island?
Take Monmouth County, for example: the area is rife with well run parks and open land, and I have access to 12 lanes of highway - the Garden State Parkway. Rush hour in Jersey is a lot shorter than it is on Long Island; I am not bound by bridges in NJ. Employment centers in NJ are far better than her LI counterparts.
I don't mean to be incendiary, but what's so great about Long Island? Why should I want to live there?
Long Island's strengths are her natural beauty and her people. But what ruins the whole thing, is a government that's so expensive, so mismanaged, and, in some jurisdictions, corrupt.
The people who leave Long Island, and there are many, aren't leaving the area because of the Island's natural beauty, her architecture, nor her lack of dining and shopping options.
You said it right there.
People trump all. I love the people here. It's a large part of why I stay.
LI jobs to me are irrelevant. I have always worked in the city and always will.
NJ is fine. Why LI over NJ? Well for me, #1, as you said, the people. But besides that, yes family is a large reason.
Give me a pool anyway. Couldn’t care less about the beach. Most people on LI wouldn’t either if they hadn’t grown up with one nearby. And I know plenty of people here who are middle class who have beach (or mountain) houses. Hell I went to back to school night last night and my kid’s underpaid teacher told us how he can’t wait to retire to his mountain house. A teacher in N.C. with a second home.
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For all the talk about the beaches which everyone seems to be at every weekend why are back yard pools so prevalent? Seems a redundancy to what is right there, 10 minutes away, world class, can't be matched as everyone likes to post...
I love the people here. It's a large part of why I stay.
NJ is fine. Why LI over NJ? Well for me, #1, as you said, the people. But besides that, yes family is a large reason.
Funny you say that, but I think NYC was voted the rudest city in the USA, maybe that's what we like to call it "culture" ? But I'm sure you meant people on LI or around your block - I'm sure they must be very nice.
I think people, in general, want to be nice everywhere, but by the end of the day, their experience throughout the day influences their behavior (job stress/commute etc) and it's hard to be composed all the time.
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I said the exact thing you said here about 3 pages before you did. I just went one step further and said that they would have moved without the awesome beaches being there. You seem to have extensive knowledge about Lake Lanier and the surrounding area - so this concept of moving to a cheaper place without beaches should not be foreign to you.
