Ok fess up, who ate my post?
What I tried to write previously is that I’ll be visiting NY sometime in the next two weeks on a job offer. I was wondering what I could expect to find in the way of housing, schools, etc. Also wondering if any Dopers want to meet up? I don’t have a firm date yet, though I should have exact details by Wednesday. So share, and thanks in advance.
Stuffy,
Big area to cover - heck, Manhattan is probably closer to Philly than it is to Montauk. If you mean Nassau and Suffolk they combine for like 3.5 or 4 million people. (Brooklyn and Queens are also on LI geographically, not politically). You have the Great Gatsby type Gold Coast, you have some run down areas, the Hamptons, etc. Where (even roughly) are you looking? Housing, etc, basically the further from Manhattan the cheaper, except the beach resorts.
Well I’ve only been to NY twice both times to Manhattan, but I don’t have any plans on living there. Other than that I don’t really know much about NY. I figure I’ll have a couple of weeks to find a rental, and probably buy a year from now, but thats the totality of my plans so far. However my brother is also moving to Queens next month, so that might be a starting point.
Did you check out Euty’s thread on almost the same subject?
Not much on Long Island there though.
It is my own personal opinion, but I absolutely hate Long Island. You may like it, it being all suburby and stuff
OK, but LI is like 100 miles long. Queens is the part of NYC the furthest east, it borders on Nassau. If your job offer is in Manhattan, you may not want to live in eastern Suffolk. Likewise, if your offer in is Suffolk, you probably aren’t going to look in Brooklyn. If your brother lives in Queens he’s in between. I can’t tell you much about the east end, I haven’t been there. I’m near the NYC/Nassau border.
I’m in Nassau County, in a town that’s nearish to Jones Beach. And yeah, Long Island is a big place - 120 miles or so from end to end.
Where you want to rent depends primarily (I think) upon:
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Job location
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Mode of transportation
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What you can afford (duh)
Here’s what my best friend & her boyfriend (working college students) moved into recently:
Single bedroom, decent sized place in an apartment building (as opposed to renting a converted house apartment). They have a stove/oven, small kitchen, & fridge, as well as a reasonable amount of closet space & room for a couple dressers in the bedroom & desks in the living area. The laundry room’s down the hall. The neighborhood’s nice, the rent’s $1100 a month.
The place is in Rockville Centre, Nassau County. They live roughly five blocks from the Rockville Centre train station & can get to Penn Station by train in about 45 minutes without changing trains. They have no car, so they have to take public buses most other places - not particularly convenient, but better than not being able to get places at all.
If you’d like to either discuss it more or talk about meeting up, e-mail me. I think it’s in my profile.