Devil Plisken…CMS
Veteran
The city is a pain in the ass to be honest. The subway taking you all over Brooklyn and Manhattan is nice, and it’s great being a 4 block walk to a train that runs straight to Yankee stadium, but rent is sky high for a small place that doesn’t even have a driveway or designated parking. Last time I talked to a realtor in 2017, they said Brooklyn is currently the most unaffordable housing market in the country. Lots of places don’t have parking lots. All the traffic sends your car insurance through the roof too. If you want to be somewhere in the city limits, look for a suburban area near the Nassau border, but not too close to a train line so they don’t jack the rates up on rent or mortgage. I think valley stream has a decent size Caribbean community if you’re looking for that. Some of that area I think falls within the queens border and its relatively close to the railroad so you can drive there and take the train around.
A 2300 square foot house in great neck with 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom was listed for $890,000 a few weeks ago. I know people working the legislator office in mineola who handle various paperwork. They took a phone call from someone last year who was getting hit with $29,000 in property taxes in Massapequa for one calendar year
That doesn’t even take into account the renovations you may have to do. It’s not like down south where they are consistently building and you may get properties with a contemporary look. What you’ll see on the market is filth...straight Archie Bunker layouts. Let’s not even get started with the “people”
It makes no fukking sense to pay nyc prices anywhere but NYC for the sake of saying you have small plot of land and a “home”
That’s why most nikkax in the city move to PA but that’s an entirely different conversation lol
