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Is the entire Island considered suburban, up to the forks which is rural?
Or is there an exurban area somewhere in between there? Where would that start, around the town of Brookhaven? Or would the town of Brookhaven still be considered a standard suburb of NYC?
An argument can be made that some areas between Route 112 and William Floyd Pkwy can be a bit of a transition zone, though in general I would say you need to get east of the William Floyd before it is truly exurban.
Is the entire Island considered suburban, up to the forks which is rural?
Or is there an exurban area somewhere in between there? Where would that start, around the town of Brookhaven? Or would the town of Brookhaven still be considered a standard suburb of NYC?
I think William Floyd is a fair demarcation point.
I'd say the Town of Brookhaven is suburban, with conservation land in its central sections east of the WFP, and that exurbia begins with Riverhead and Southampton towns and includes Southold and East Hampton towns, but their islands in Peconic Bay and the Sound and the Town of Shelter Island are just rural.
Lol. LI rural. Haha. Good one.
LI hasn’t been rural in decades. I guess compared to Nassau County or Western Suffolk some could consider eastern LI rural, but the reality is, it’s on par with north shore Smithtown, Stony Brook, or even CSH or North Port, etc…A few leftover farms do not make an area rural. Huntington still has some farms, is Huntington rural? And with the covid migration, eastern LI is just as busy and congested as everywhere else now. I was born and raised on the north fork. When I was a kid, it was still rural. Backwoods redneck rural. Just because there are still a few more trees per square mile does not make it “rural”.
^ Yeah I have to agree. Long Island is past being rural. The pine barrens are rural but that don’t count. If you could build there it would def be built up.
^ Yeah I have to agree. Long Island is past being rural. The pine barrens are rural but that don’t count. If you could build there it would def be built up.
I think William Floyd is a fair demarcation point.
Sounds about right. I'd say that once you hit exit 60 on the LIE, things get more sparse, and then once you hit William Floyd it gets even more sparse and exurban
rural and exurban are two different things. Is there anywhere on LI that is rural (today)? Probably not. But is part of it exurban? Absolutely. Large sections out east are similar to areas in Orange/Dutchess county, for instance. Nassau and Western Suffolk are like Westchester and Rockland. (Limiting this is NY State areas).
Rural would describe areas of Sullivan and Greene County, etc, and of course, many other places further north.
These are meaningless definitions without an actual population density to mark what the cut off would be. Without an actual agreement on what the statistical reference point is, it just ends up meaning whatever the person trying to make the specific argument that it justifies on the internet means. In other words, it's an idiotic waste of time.
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