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I currently live in Brooklyn and work in downtown Manhattan. I will be moving next summer and really wanted to find a place in a rural area but I'm worried about commuting to work . All my life I've been using public transportation to get to school/work and never driven car but I think it's time I get that driver's license I just really wanted to find an area that is nice and peaceful, maybe a forest or a lake. I guess I'm dreaming too much Are there any options I could look into?
You might want to consider Arverne By the Sea in Rockaway Queens, it's a new neighborhood in development for the last few years. I was looking for some rural area as well and thinking of moving to Philly, NJ or upstate NY, but after I went to their open house then I immediately fell in love with it. It's right next to a the boardwalk and the Atlantic Ocean so it will perfect for the summer. It's close to the A train so you don't need to drive to work, but far enough from Manhattan that you still feel like in a rural area. I bought my first house there last year and planning to movein by yearend.
Move to Staten Island and take the ferry to work.There are some beautiful areas of SI.
Or you could move to my neighborhood in The Bronx, across the street from The Botanical Garden.There is a real virgin forest with a river, with rapids and waterfalls, in there.... less than a 10 minute walk.
You might want to consider Arverne By the Sea in Rockaway Queens, it's a new neighborhood in development for the last few years. I was looking for some rural area as well and thinking of moving to Philly, NJ or upstate NY, but after I went to their open house then I immediately fell in love with it. It's right next to a the boardwalk and the Atlantic Ocean so it will perfect for the summer. It's close to the A train so you don't need to drive to work, but far enough from Manhattan that you still feel like in a rural area. I bought my first house there last year and planning to movein by yearend.
No disrespect but I lived in the rockaways for 12 years and its pretty far from rural. In 2005 when I first noticed they were doing construction I saw how cheap and half-assed they were building those homes. Those pieces of sh.its went up faster than I could blink my eyes. NO LIE OR EXAGGERATION. I used to go to Stella Maris h.s. and I would drive through arverne everyday and actually witness these homes being built. Horrible quality and built in a rush.
I was also on Google street view and was looking through the rockaways. It's all construction and garbage. If the rumors are true about the rockaways going through some sort of gentrification, its not quite there yet and I wouldn't invest my money in a home that is built from ****, so that hurricane bob can come and blow it to hell.
No disrespect but I lived in the rockaways for 12 years and its pretty far from rural. In 2005 when I first noticed they were doing construction I saw how cheap and half-assed they were building those homes. Those pieces of sh.its went up faster than I could blink my eyes. NO LIE OR EXAGGERATION. I used to go to Stella Maris h.s. and I would drive through arverne everyday and actually witness these homes being built. Horrible quality and built in a rush.
I was also on Google street view and was looking through the rockaways. It's all construction and garbage. If the rumors are true about the rockaways going through some sort of gentrification, its not quite there yet and I wouldn't invest my money in a home that is built from ****, so that hurricane bob can come and blow it to hell.
Have you been in any of the homes built at Arverne by the Sea? I actually went in all 6 models and the craftsmanship seemed quite solid; my firm deals with architecture/engineering. You were able to tell the quality from Google Street views? Impressive. I guess weed is a hell of a drug after all.
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No disrespect but I lived in the rockaways for 12 years and its pretty far from rural. In 2005 when I first noticed they were doing construction I saw how cheap and half-assed they were building those homes. Those pieces of sh.its went up faster than I could blink my eyes. NO LIE OR EXAGGERATION. I used to go to Stella Maris h.s. and I would drive through arverne everyday and actually witness these homes being built. Horrible quality and built in a rush.
I was also on Google street view and was looking through the rockaways. It's all construction and garbage. If the rumors are true about the rockaways going through some sort of gentrification, its not quite there yet and I wouldn't invest my money in a home that is built from ****, so that hurricane bob can come and blow it to hell.
I lived not too far away from the Rockaways and agree with this. The area is crappy, regardless of how fancy the marketing materials for Arverne by the Sea or those new condos are. I wouldn't want to live there and neither do most native NYers.
Have you been in any of the homes built at Arverne by the Sea? I actually went in all 6 models and the craftsmanship seemed quite solid; my firm deals with architecture/engineering. You were able to tell the quality from Google Street views? Impressive. I guess weed is a hell of a drug after all.
Lmao, feisty today aren't we?
It's one thing to get upset because I bad mouthed your neighborhood, but its another to disrespect someone you don't even know over the computer about something that had absolutely nothing to do with you. I'm almost 20 and I know that's a big no no. Come on Mr Firm you must be over half my age, where's the common sense?
I didn't have to go in any of them to know that they are cardboard boxes.
& I wasn't referring to the structual integrity of the homes when I mentioned street view.
I was speaking for the neighborhood in it self.
It "seemed" quite solid when you went in them but it "seemed" like cheap sh.it when I witnessed with my own pretty brown eyes 5 days a week/2 times a day how they were built when I either drove or took the Q22.
But allow me to apologize for offending you seeing as this thread is solely about you and your opinion.
My understanding was that we were all entitled to one.
& yes, weed is a hell of a drug, that's why I stay away from it.
Rawrr.
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I just really wanted to find an area that is nice and peaceful, maybe a forest or a lake. I guess I'm dreaming too much 
