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Old 10-20-2009, 03:36 PM
 
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You can do it.

Get a small starter in Suffolk.

More than doable if you have no kids and your smart with a buck.

Crooks
The point is, if you don't live here already, you don't have family here..and you aren't in a high paying field..why would you want to? You and I grew up here, so we are compelled to stay because we have roots here.

Almost everywhere in the country is less expensive then here, including other places not that far from NYC or Boston or DC or what have you. I wouldn't discourage someone making 175K plus from moving here, or someone with a paid off house somewhere else that they can get 200K for a down payment here..they'll be fine.
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Old 10-20-2009, 03:38 PM
 
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The point is, if you don't live here already, you don't have family here..and you aren't in a high paying field..why would you want to? You and I grew up here, so we are compelled to stay because we have roots here.

Almost everywhere in the country is less expensive then here, including other places not that far from NYC or Boston or DC or what have you. I wouldn't discourage someone making 175K plus from moving here, or someone with a paid off house somewhere else that they can get 200K for a down payment here..they'll be fine.
This is right, but there is something about LI, for me anyway, that you can't get anywhere else. And I may feel this way b/c I grew up here, but no matter how poor I was, I would never leave. I can understand why the OP would WANT to live here...although afraid to say he might have trouble doing so.
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Old 10-20-2009, 08:01 PM
 
Location: I'm gettin' there
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Not a fan of big top 10 lists, but this one seems very realistic....
Least Affordable Metro Areas - Slideshows - CNBC.com

Average income for Nassau - Suffolk is 97k.... which I think is pretty close give and take 10k.
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Old 10-20-2009, 08:41 PM
 
Location: Long Island
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This is right, but there is something about LI, for me anyway, that you can't get anywhere else. And I may feel this way b/c I grew up here, but no matter how poor I was, I would never leave. I can understand why the OP would WANT to live here...although afraid to say he might have trouble doing so.

I didn't grow up here and I love it here! Would be a tough place to leave...
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Old 10-20-2009, 10:17 PM
 
Location: Dead end - Long Island,
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This is right, but there is something about LI, for me anyway, that you can't get anywhere else. .

What's that losing everything you used to have and being told NO!
There is nothing here to get anymore, you have to go everywhere else now...

What is so great here now....the shopping? Or the tracking of the child molesters living here in great numbers...
Long island lost everything it was....Everything it had to make it great...all gone...
Now it is just a land of imbecile voters, slowly killing themselves...

To the OP, i moved to Long Island becuase it was the Land of motorsports, and that drew all kinds of wonderful things here...
As the motorsports was pushed out for insane reasoning mostly all the other wonderful things left with it....
Now im stuck here, and if not for this damn business i have, OP i would be gone....it is unfortunately an anchor, anchoring me here...people here are retarded, they vote for jackasses that in turn do as they please....or do NOTHING at all....

Let this island die, and hopefully all the idiots stay and not move somewhere else and ruin that......don't come here...
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Old 10-20-2009, 11:04 PM
 
Location: Long Island
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Let this island die, and hopefully all the idiots stay and not move somewhere else and ruin that......don't come here...

Pick up and leave it you hate it that much!

There are plenty of us who enjoy living here
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Old 10-20-2009, 11:08 PM
 
Location: southern california
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they are liars. when you dont crank 50k in sales commission, they will drop you so fast you will get whip lash.
dont bet on a spouse at all, unless you look like brad pitt and have his money, please dont do that.
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Old 10-21-2009, 06:57 AM
 
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What's that losing everything you used to have and being told NO!
There is nothing here to get anymore, you have to go everywhere else now...

What is so great here now....the shopping? Or the tracking of the child molesters living here in great numbers...
Long island lost everything it was....Everything it had to make it great...all gone...
Now it is just a land of imbecile voters, slowly killing themselves...

To the OP, i moved to Long Island becuase it was the Land of motorsports, and that drew all kinds of wonderful things here...
As the motorsports was pushed out for insane reasoning mostly all the other wonderful things left with it....
Now im stuck here, and if not for this damn business i have, OP i would be gone....it is unfortunately an anchor, anchoring me here...people here are retarded, they vote for jackasses that in turn do as they please....or do NOTHING at all....

Let this island die, and hopefully all the idiots stay and not move somewhere else and ruin that......don't come here...
So you don't like LI anymore because it's difficult to street race.

Next.
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Old 10-21-2009, 07:09 AM
 
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What's that losing everything you used to have and being told NO!
There is nothing here to get anymore, you have to go everywhere else now...

What is so great here now....the shopping? Or the tracking of the child molesters living here in great numbers...
Long island lost everything it was....Everything it had to make it great...all gone...
Now it is just a land of imbecile voters, slowly killing themselves...

To the OP, i moved to Long Island becuase it was the Land of motorsports, and that drew all kinds of wonderful things here...
As the motorsports was pushed out for insane reasoning mostly all the other wonderful things left with it....
Now im stuck here, and if not for this damn business i have, OP i would be gone....it is unfortunately an anchor, anchoring me here...people here are retarded, they vote for jackasses that in turn do as they please....or do NOTHING at all....

Let this island die, and hopefully all the idiots stay and not move somewhere else and ruin that......don't come here...
If you go somewhere else do you really think there will be less "imbecile voters"? I am interested to know what wonderful things were pushed out along with the motorsports?

I have been here 38 years and I am struggling right now for the first time. Like many others posted, if my family wasnt here I would consider moving somewhere else. I dont want to leave but eventually may be forced to.
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Old 10-21-2009, 08:13 AM
 
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Pick up and leave it you hate it that much!

There are plenty of us who enjoy living here
The major problem is bitter Long Islanders, I agree if you hate it so much move. You sound like a perfect fit for NC.

And who really cares about "motorsports"
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