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It's small, expensive, boring, and now it's susceptible to flooding in the south shores. The traffic can get ridiculous in and out of the boro and expensive.
Nobody outside of the boro wants to visit you and pay that awful expensive bridge toll of $13. Remember 30 years ago they said the toll would be gone after 15 years now it just keeps going up.
There are some really nice areas but small and limited to the wealthy and it's really not impressive when you can live in a mini mansion just across the Goethals in NJ for less.
Some parts of SI used to be dumping grounds that I would never live because toxins in the ground could be a health concern.
A co-worker of mine lost his house in the Sandy storm last year, the insurance company screwed him because it was not declared a hurricane and FEMA cut him only a $4000 check and the city says get in line if you need help we can give you counseling on how to get help.
I love posts like this. If it dissuades even one more person from moving here it's worth it. Yes, OP, you're right and there are no positives to this borough at all. A half million people should just pick up and move--lives, family, and jobs be damned! Where is the fabulous Shangri-La that you have found hidden somewhere in the 5 boroughs? We'll all move there...
People have to live somewhere and if it's working for the people that live there than what is it to you? I don't understand why people make threads like this? Who cares if you would NEVAH live in such a dreadful place.
A co-worker of mine lost his house in the Sandy storm last year, the insurance company screwed him because it was not declared a hurricane and FEMA cut him only a $4000 check and the city says get in line if you need help we can give you counseling on how to get help.
What do you mean it wasn't declared as hurricane? It was definitely declared a hurricane. It was a category three.
Even after wrath of Superstorm Sandy, some of us don't subscribe to notion that people cannot live in Staten Island. If this was true, same could be applied to Far Rockaway (Queens) and Red Hook (Brooklyn). Consider possibility that folk love it there, even if they could afford to move.
What do you mean it wasn't declared as hurricane? It was definitely declared a hurricane. It was a category three.
While it's hard to believe, I think they're actually correct that it wasn't a true hurricane by the time each reached NJ & NY. I remember hearing this and just looked it up. Because it didn't meet the definition of hurricane, the insurance companies weren't required to pay out as they normally would have:
"Sandy developed from a tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22, quickly strengthened, and was upgraded to Tropical Storm Sandy six hours later. Sandy moved slowly northward toward the Greater Antilles and gradually intensified. On October 24, Sandy became a hurricane, made landfall near Kingston, Jamaica, a few hours later, re-emerged into the Caribbean Sea and strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane. On October 25, Sandy hit Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane, then weakened to a Category 1 hurricane. Early on October 26, Sandy moved through the Bahamas.On October 27, Sandy briefly weakened to a tropical storm and then restrengthened to a Category 1 hurricane. Early on October 29, Sandy curved north-northwest and then moved ashore near Brigantine, New Jersey, just to the northeast of Atlantic City, as a post-tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_sandy
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