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This one is fairly similar to my house, although mine is 20% bigger + finished walkout basement with 9’ ceilings on 1 acre and was custom built, not by a mass market builder - and less than half the price. My taxes are 1/3 and the schools are better ranked.
This isn’t to put down Melville or this house, but $2M with $28K taxes is a LOT of money for what you really are getting. Again, if you’re making $600K+ on Wall St you can afford it, but if you’re making less you could afford it elsewhere.
If "the libs" turned SF into a hellhole, it was circa 1960. So much for current references. I disagree on the "don't see that dynamic anywhere else." You actually see that dynamic anywhere there is winter. People get older, get sick of the cold, retire to cheaper, warmer locales. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Nope. The dynamic here is well above anywhere else.
Plenty of NYers move North to colder weather in retirement.
This isn't entirely accurate. Maine has one of the harshest winters in the U.S., and it is one of the most popular retirement destinations in the country.
I lived there for 6 years. It's not a retirement mecca just because they built some condos in Kennebunkport. It's a beautiful place with too long winters and too short summers, weather similar to western NYS, probably better.
Nope. The dynamic here is well above anywhere else.
Plenty of NYers move North to colder weather in retirement.
I was up by Saratoga last summer and was amazed how many new retirement communities are sprouting up there. Some adjacent to the I-87 Northway, which I cannot comprehend.
I was up by Saratoga last summer and was amazed how many new retirement communities are sprouting up there. Some adjacent to the I-87 Northway, which I cannot comprehend.
I’ve been saying it for years...
Saratoga is the new Hamptons.
I lived there for 6 years. It's not a retirement mecca just because they built some condos in Kennebunkport. It's a beautiful place with too long winters and too short summers, weather similar to western NYS, probably better.
There are many retirement communities throughout Maine, not just in Kennebunkport. I believe it is 5th or 6th in the list of top states that people retire to.
I've never been to NY, but was kinda curious about Long Island and if it was a cool unique spot that would be interesting to visit. I had no idea this place was so expensive, I thought expensive was limited to the high rises of Manhattan. I was hoping there'd be charm, but it sounds like it's much more so convenience than charm that's the pull. No wonder people come to Denver and buy a crappy 3 bedroom house for $500,000 and think they are getting a deal!
I do not get the restaurant obsession. Literally everywhere in the United States has decently good food. Basically any city over 10,000 people has decent ethnic variety that's fairly good, and any metro over a million has basically everything you could want. And if I wanted to take a food vacation, Mexico City will trump anything NY has and is 1/3 the price.
It just seems weird, there's many people who make the shift from a smaller town city to the big city, but it seems like when someone's raised in a big city, living somewhere smaller is not even a consideration, even though there's big benefits. This thread makes it seem like people get stuck in a place even if it's deteriorating and they don't really know what they're missing out on in the rest of the interior of the country.
This thread makes it seem like people get stuck in a place even if it's deteriorating and they don't really know what they're missing out on in the rest of the interior of the country.
Bingo.
I'm someone who was raised young on LI, then lived both in CA and internationally. Moved back 20+ yrs later. And it's absolutely shocking how many here appear to have no concept of life outside this bubble. Back in touch with friends I went to school with many a year ago and I can't even relate to them. They maybe went to college out of state, a 3-5 hr drive away and returned, and that's the extent of their ventures away.
The proof is the social circles. Impossible to break into on LI as everyone is still surrounded by 3 generations of family and the people they went to school with. They're literally afraid of outsiders. Completely different than many other places with a more global injection of people. But most other places people are just more open and friendly in general.
Never mind the infrastructure on LI is absolutely abhorrent compared to elsewhere. There's some natural beauty here but the architectural style of commercial/retail/business buildings here is some of the worst I've seen on the planet. And every day it appears another goes vacant. Empty. Just sitting there wasting away.
I've never been to NY, but was kinda curious about Long Island and if it was a cool unique spot that would be interesting to visit. I had no idea this place was so expensive, I thought expensive was limited to the high rises of Manhattan. I was hoping there'd be charm, but it sounds like it's much more so convenience than charm that's the pull. No wonder people come to Denver and buy a crappy 3 bedroom house for $500,000 and think they are getting a deal!
I do not get the restaurant obsession. Literally everywhere in the United States has decently good food. Basically any city over 10,000 people has decent ethnic variety that's fairly good, and any metro over a million has basically everything you could want. And if I wanted to take a food vacation, Mexico City will trump anything NY has and is 1/3 the price.
It just seems weird, there's many people who make the shift from a smaller town city to the big city, but it seems like when someone's raised in a big city, living somewhere smaller is not even a consideration, even though there's big benefits. This thread makes it seem like people get stuck in a place even if it's deteriorating and they don't really know what they're missing out on in the rest of the interior of the country.
Don't let this forum give you the myopic view of Long Island. It's the same posters writing post after post about the same stuff. Yeah, the NYC metro area is pricey. Real estate in CA is higher and those people complain a lot too. Same in Hawaii, which also has problems despite the great weather.
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