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It will be a huge culture shock. You'll think you moved to the boondocks. It's also not close to high quality healthcare, like other parts of the Triangle.
eastern LI is the boondocks. It may as well be Clayton.
Clayton is a nice place and do like Flowers Plantation ... Walk at East Village is nice as well.
Johnston county has more of a Southern feel for now..skip Wake as taxes and housing are not worth it unless you want to spend half a million to be close to your kids/grandchildren.
Do think SC is worth a look over NC for retirement especially...
I’ve never been East of Uniondale on LI....but there are parts of LI that are like Clayton?
Wow.
(I have only been to Deep River Brewery, Flowers and DT Clayton for a festival, so consider the source)
Uniondale is practically Queens.
If I dropped anyone here not familiar with LI down on Eastern LI (save for the mansions of the Hamptons) you would not have any idea that's where you were. Guarantee it. Remember the Redneck BBQ Lab conversation?
If I dropped anyone here not familiar with LI down on Eastern LI (save for the mansions of the Hamptons) you would not have any idea that's where you were. Guarantee it. Remember the Redneck BBQ Lab conversation?
I lived in Great Neck LI for a few years for a short-term job assignment and would often drive out to the Vineyards in Eastern LI on the north fork. It was incredible. Like another world out there!
If I dropped anyone here not familiar with LI down on Eastern LI (save for the mansions of the Hamptons) you would not have any idea that's where you were. Guarantee it. Remember the Redneck BBQ Lab conversation?
I agree Uniondale is barely outside the city. That is amazing to me, wouldn’t have guessed that.
I lived in Great Neck LI for a few years for a short-term job assignment and would often drive out to the Vineyards in Eastern LI on the north fork. It was incredible. Like another world out there!
Currently the best part of LI but very soon to be overrun with the hipsters.
Currently the best part of LI but very soon to be overrun with the hipsters.
Not unless the LIRR somehow manages to pull off its all time greatest magic trick and installs a high-speed rail. The North Fork has been a busy hub for at least twenty years in terms of wineries and orchards, and other than a few families acquiring large tracts of land, has remained reasonably unaffected. I remember the drive to the Orient Point ferry quite well, hard to reconcile the last ten miles with traditional Long Island living.
As for the original poster, as someone who is newly qualified for a 55 and older community, and also having recently moved into a brand new community in North Raleigh, I'd suggest you consider something a little closer to the Triangle proper and maybe not limit yourself to a retirement community. There's a fantastic blend of generations where I'm now living including everything from retiree's to recently college graduated newlyweds, and honestly, it's energizing. We are right off of major roads and so super convenient to just about anywhere we typically go, including shopping, restaurants, professional services and the airport. My property taxes are insanely low compared to Long Island (about $3,400 per year) and most houses sell for between $325k - $450k, with an abundance of townhouse options if that's your thing.
Ignore the possibility of snow, while we may have up to 3-4 significant accumulations of more than an inch in any year, you can easily live here without owning a snow shovel (I haven't had one in thirteen years living here). There's so much more offered here to occupy your time and mind than in South Carolina, including a seriously large transplant population, so you'll easily blend in on Day One.
I didn't say they had NO healthcare there. So they have a new hospital. IME, these satellite hospitals don't offer the same level of expertise that you'll find at Duke North or UNC main. And there certainly won't be the broad choice in providers, particularly specialists, that you'd get closer to the Triangle proper.
You might want to consider Greenville, SC. Tones of retirees from all over, including LI. We do get some snow, but less than Raleigh. I lived there during the infamous snow/ice storm when kids had to sleep at their schools.
If you are coming here as retirees, do you need to worry about snow? Take the southern approach to snow: stock up and watch it melt a day or two later.
Then something like the photo from one of the first posts happens.
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