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The problems on Long Island are almost exclusively due to
1. high taxes due to unfunded mandates (civil servant salaries and lifetime Cadillac benefits). This is a problem throughout NY State, but it's worse on LI where people have been brainwashed into believing they actually have a voice with the school budget votes.
2. The fact that it's an ISLAND - which means no manufacturing operations don't want to set up shop there because of the exorbitant cost of shipping.
YOU NEED TO STOP HIJACKING THREADS AND BRINGING THEM BACK TO YOUR OWN TIRED SONG. YOU ARE ALWAYS ASKING WHY PEOPLE DON'T "STAY AND FIGHT" WHEN THEY WANT TO DO WHAT YOU DID. WHY DON'T YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT YOU PERCEIVE TO BE THE PROBLEMS HERE?! YES I AM SHOUTING AT YOU.
LI had 2 big airplane factories that bailed, Republic and Grumman. They employed so many workers, the railroad had special stations serving each plant.
Their problem was the gentrification which is beginning to raise its ugly face here.
I am not hijacking the thread. The thread just points out how good areas will be turned to crap by the influx of too many people wanting what they had before and thinking they will not create a tax monster by doing so.
I will vote for a slow growth policy and really like Mr. Trump who wants to help save the middle class.
Last edited by saturnfan; 09-14-2015 at 06:32 AM..
Their problem was the gentrification which is beginning to raise its ugly face here.
Gruman is the manufacturer you are referring to and when the cold war ended in the 90's their defense contacts were reduced so they began to shrink operations. This had NOTHING to do with gentrification!
LI had 2 big airplane factories that bailed, Republic and Grumman. They employed so many workers, the railroad had special stations serving each plant.
Their problem was the gentrification which is beginning to raise its ugly face here.
I am not hijacking the thread. The thread just points out how good areas will be turned to crap by the influx of too many people wanting what they had before and thinking they will not create a tax monster by doing so.
I will vote for a slow growth policy and really like Mr. Trump who wants to help save the middle class.
You have to to be kidding me with this. First, why are we even bringing presidential politics into this thread and how can you possibly beleive Trump is for anything other than boosting up his own ego.
It is hijacking the thread when someone is asking about traffic on a specific day and time and others have delivered almost certainly correct explanations for it and then someone who lives 30 miles away in the hell that is Capital Blvd starts talking about the whole area like its the same.
Let me tell you, Crapital was just as crappy 35-40 years ago while you were living on Long Island. In fact, when my future wife and her parents moved down here 22 years ago from LI, the first thing they noticed in doing the easiest of research is that it reminded them of everything that they wanted to get away from. Too bad you didn't do the same thing or you might be way happier. Though something tells me that that's never possible.
You have to to be kidding me with this. First, why are we even bringing presidential politics into this thread and how can you possibly beleive Trump is for anything other than boosting up his own ego.
It is hijacking the thread when someone is asking about traffic on a specific day and time and others have delivered almost certainly correct explanations for it and then someone who lives 30 miles away in the hell that is Capital Blvd starts talking about the whole area like its the same.
Let me tell you, Crapital was just as crappy 35-40 years ago while you were living on Long Island. In fact, when my future wife and her parents moved down here 22 years ago from LI, the first thing they noticed in doing the easiest of research is that it reminded them of everything that they wanted to get away from. Too bad you didn't do the same thing or you might be way happier. Though something tells me that that's never possible.
I like Capital and live on it but despise places line Cary and Wakefield that prohibit signs to help you find a business. Gentrification.
What i hate is the infrastructure demands created by businesses and developers who do not pay for the items they require like roads, schools, utilities, etc. letting all taxpayers bear their burden.
In the rural counties, good jobs are needed. This area does not need to become a Southern Silicon Valley where all the neat little towns are converted to giant cookie-cutter communities and middle class families are priced out.
We need all of these NY/NJ transplants about as much as we need a bedbug epidemic.
I like Capital and live on it but despise places line Cary and Wakefield that prohibit signs to help you find a business. Gentrification.
What i hate is the infrastructure demands created by businesses and developers who do not pay for the items they require like roads, schools, utilities, etc. letting all taxpayers bear their burden.
In the rural counties, good jobs are needed. This area does not need to become a Southern Silicon Valley where all the neat little towns are converted to giant cookie-cutter communities and middle class families are priced out.
We need all of these NY/NJ transplants about as much as we need a bedbug epidemic.
"What you hate" seems to be just about everything.
Doesn't that get tiring?
I get exhausted just reading your nonstop litany of "the sky is falling".
Tell me again about how great it was to live in a rent controlled apartment in NYC 30 years ago while I enjoy this beautiful day.
We need all of these NY/NJ transplants about as much as we need a bedbug epidemic.
You ARE these NY/NJ transplants!!!!
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